I can not disagree with you on illegals. Both parties are playing us for fools on this issue. But remember a week ago I showed you that it was us liberals who were against free trade? Well I'll show you another article from THE MAN Thom Hartmann explaining to you how it's actually your party that is responsible for illegals. It's corporations who want them here. They want the cheap labor.
I've always agreed that Free Trade has been for some time part of the Conservative Ideology. And I've always agreed that employers want cheap labor.
BUT, that is only half the problem. The left is also committed to Third World Immigration for it's own reasons, (and some of that is corporate money)
And for some time has been co-opted with Free Trade. As demonstrated by Hillary.
Great example. Trump says Mexicans are going to vote for him. And my Mexican friend agreed with him. He said LEGAL Mexicans don't give a **** about illegals. Once they are legal citizens, they don't give a shit! That means it really isn't us liberals who are fighting to keep illegals here. The number of bleeding heart liberals is so small they are insignificant. They are not a voting block worth worrying about.
Yet the polling shows that Legal Hispanics are against Trump to a strong extent. I think you are dismissing the natural tendency of people to empathize with people who are ethnically or culturally similar.
AND dismissing the effects of the massive race baiting by the Left. They might not care about illegals, but they do care if they are told that Trump and the GOP are racists who are their enemies.
So if Trump is right, then ask yourself who is really behind the status quo? Read this and find out.
Today's Immigration Battle Corporatists vs. Racists (and Labor is Left Behind)
The corporatist Republicans ("amnesty!") are fighting with the racist Republicans ("fence!"), and it provides an opportunity for progressives to step forward with a clear solution to the immigration problem facing America. Both the corporatists and the racists are fond of the mantra, "There are some jobs Americans won't do." It's a lie.
You should be flattered. I skimmed the article despite the premise that pro-fence republicans are racists.
This article demonstrates the Power of the Race Card.
THis author assumes that republicans who are against illegals are motivated by racism.
Then he spends much of the article discussing all the reasons that cheap Third World Labor is bad for American workers.
Reasons that you have heard from me over and over and over and over and over and over again.
That writer someone misses that fact that by the logic of his fellow libs, that HE IS RACIST.
Regardless, the status quo on Immigration is supported by two powerful forces.
Employers, and the GOP who represents them.
And the Left with desire for the votes of minorities, and it's hostility to any hint that American culture is worthy of being protected.
With the nomination of Trump, the Employers, have lost a battle within the GOP.
With the nomination of HIllary they have won the battle in the Dem Party.