So King George is sending thousands of National Guard troops to the Mexican border, in a bid to secure it from the urgently dangerous threat of poverty-stricken economic migrants braving the river waters and desert sands to be part the richest country in the world. Bands of gun-totin' vigilante redneck Americans already sit out on deck-chairs near the frontier, waiting patiently for Mexicans to set foot on US soil, waiting for an opportunity to shoot holes in them for daring to trespass on their free democratic land. Clueless George thinks they need some back-up. All of a sudden, he thinks, there is a need for six-thousand troops to stop illegal immigrants from entering a nation that is not only founded on immigration (we won't mention founded on greed and imperialism), but has such an economy that requires immigrants to keep it afloat. "I don' care, if they ain' legal, send 'em all home!" More of an official line than anyhing else. Many people are well aware that illegal, paid-under-the-table workers are the backbone of any capitalist society. There will always be people willing to pay employees cash-in-hand as long as they offer no legal rights and protection, and there will always be people who will take those jobs because it is quick and easy money that stays in their pocket. It's a fact of life, and if this black economy were truly expunged, we would live in a scoiety where things aint so cheap. Don't get me wrong. I'm on the side of the workers here. I would love all workers to have full legal rights, so that if they were out on the farm and they lost a foot in the blades of a plough, they could take their negligent employers to court and at the very least get severance pay. Whoops, I mean, disability pay. An illegal alien, however does not want to be discovered, and therefore recieves no help at all. And yet, he still takes the jobs, knowing that if things go wrong he won't have a leg to stand on (sorry, I do apologise). Why? Because it's easy money, and he thinks it is worth the risk. I'm a legal alien. I came here through all the right channels, and utterly by choice. Many other people from much poorer countries than Britaindo not have that choice - they go where the work is, irrespective of legality. They are not coming here to bring down the government, or to burn American cities, but to work, to do the shitty jobs that nobody in America wants any more. They have my support. But now, waiting for them at the border, is the most sophisticated army in the world, locked and loaded and ready to put bullets in them for simply wanting to come and work.
break for the border
18.5.06 04:20
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