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Thread ID: 18395 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-05-25
2005-05-25 11:44 | User Profile
Marketplace is doing a series on illegal immigration it calls "The Undocumented War." Here's a link: [url="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/undocumented_war/"]http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/undocumented_war/[/url]
The show yesterday featured a series of statements by members of the Minutemen. Without exception, the men were eloquent and polite. I think the interviewer was surprised that the targets of their ire were the Republican Bush administration and its client corporations. They were not xenophobes; they were men protesting what Paul Craig Roberts calls "labor arbitrage:" businesses exploiting the absolute advantage illegals have over legal workers.
What perked my ears up was an interview with a Mexican loitering on the southern side, waiting for an opportunity to jump the border. This border-jumper has already been promised a job at an Atlanta restaurant. This supports a long-time hypothesis of mine that there is an underground railroad operating from Mexico to Atlanta GA. There are a lot of mestizos in the metro Atlanta area. Other Atlantans on the board can confirm this. I think anyone who visits Atlanta would be surprised at the number of mestizos and Aztecs they see. I was running an errand in Norcross recently, and it occurred to me from looking at other traffic that I was in the minority on the roadway at the time. I also saw many people whose features were different than the usual Mexicans and Aztecs. I think we're getting a lot of Salvadorans and Guatemalans too. Needless to say, I was not looking at the best and brightest of Latin America.
This wholesale importation of other peoples into what was traditionally a white nation is completely thoughtless. (To put it mildly.) Powerful social and economic forces have been unleashed.