Stew
Mood:  don't ask
President Bush's immigration plan is crap. It will result in a blanket amnesty on a scale with the 1986 Reagan plan. It's crucial that we resist this because it's exactly the kind of thing that will ultimately lead to the balkanization of the American Southwest. Why is that not understood? Why does big business take no responsibility for this kind of mass importation of non-American culture? Is it a principle of "compassionate conservatism" to shepherd in a permanent underclass in this country? You know the usual crap: no one else wants to do these jobs, so why not bring in cheap foreign labor to do it? Because that foreign labor doesn't leave. It stays and makes babies and goes on welfare and ignores civic responsibility and transforms whole neighborhoods and communities into barrios and alien enclaves.

Which is a giant fucking Bowie knife in the back of the middle class.

Like I say, Mr. President, there's not enough political benefit for you to do this. In the next 10 months, everyone will get used to the idea that you're going to kick Dean's ass. The perception of the inevitable landslide will depress voter turnout and that means Latinos are going to stay away from the polls in droves. They don't even vote in competitive elections, so why are you sucking up to them?

By the way, when is Vicente Fox going to give us something in return for absorbing his poor? I want to see some reciprocity, goddammit.