We should be looking towards Latino culture in America as a significant force for positive change, as a movement away from the corporate model of privatized ineptness and corruption, or the divisive dynamic that has unfortunately characterized other racial group relations in our nation. But this has to depend on inclusiveness rather than dehumanization, imprisonment and expulsion

Dobbs end-run to racial divisiveness has only one bloody ending. Good for Laura to bring up the whole fundamental issue of how we treat other members of the human species here in 21st century America, especially if they have a darker skin color or speak another language.

Not to miss your point, but the laws were made almost a century ago, and thus must nessessarily have been in effect long before most of the South Americans who are here without a green card came over our borders. That means that they made themselves illegal aliens, and banning that name will not change reality.

Otherwise, a good point – that by calling all the demonstrators illegals he has tarred and slandered probably the vast majority of them.

It’s interesting to me though…..these people are bashing China but don’t seem to see anything wrong with the Walmartization of this country, and I’m sure their houses are as full of cheap Chinese junk as the next person.

just as I suspect most of them employ gardeners, nannies, and maids of questionable documentation bacause they don’t want to pay the high price of healthcare, Soc Sec, and so forth.

The cicadas are coming, the cicadas are coming.

Just what the Fundgelical midwest needs is an insect plague to plunge them further into Apocalyptic fervor.

30 days to live.

-GSD

Anybody have any good cicada recipes? Some folx love ‘em. Mmmmmmm.

Question: Is this person a citizen of another country?
Answer: Yes
Therefore this person is an alien(look it up)

Question: Did this person enter the US legally?
Answer: No
Therefore this person has violated the law and, therefore, is illegal.

An alien here illegally is an illegal alien. I’m not sure why this is such a difficult concept.

Q: Is this person here to pursue the American Dream through hard work?
A: Yes (for the vast majority)

Q: Does this person have documentation?
A: No.

Therefore, this is an undocumented worker.

You can play this game either way. The question is whether you want to label this person as some sort of criminal non-contributor or a person who has accepted what has undeniably been a tacit invitation by America to work for the most minimal compensation the economy will allow.

Probably the central example of this is the nativists’ insistence on calling undocumented workers “illegal aliens”, a phrase clearly intended to cast these immigrants both as The Other and, most especially, as lawbreakers. The phrase becomes a way of negating any recognition that perhaps the nation’s dysfunctional immigration laws, which render millions of hardworking contributors to the national economy noncitizens, might actually be the problem.

Question: Is this person a citizen of another country?
Answer: Yes
Therefore this person is an alien(look it up)

Question: Did this person enter the US legally?
Answer: No
Therefore this person has violated the law and, therefore, is illegal.

An alien here illegally is an illegal alien. I’m not sure why this is such a difficult concept.

LooHoo, I’ve only been to Hawaii once. I was not quite 3 months pregnant and every picture of me from that trip is captioned “Suzanne at (location) just before she threw up” or “Suzanne just after throwing up”. Memorable trip. One day, I want to visit Hawaii again. This time, no passengers allowed.

Bummer! Hawaii is so beautiful, isn’t it? I will never forget the true meaning of tropical breeze. Just smelled so beautiful and clean when I was there late 80’s.