Brown Sludge

The Immigration Tidal Wave

April 10th, 2006

Waiter : How are you tonight Mr. Creosote?
Mr. Creosote : Better.
Waiter : Better?
Mr. Creosote : Better get a bucket, I’m gonna throw up.

I’ve tried to stay out of the immigration debate.

As I’ve stated in other posts on Brown Sludge – I try to stay in my niche. I’m a Conservative – who blogs against Corporatism, and what I perceive as the grinding up and digesting of The American Way of Life and True Grassroots Conservatism by Greedy Corporations and their defenders on both the Left and especially the Right.

But I just finished reading this post on one my favorite blogs – Outside The Beltway – that has irked my snerf to the point that I’ve got to respond – because what he had to say so perfectly illustrated the Brown Sludge Ethic.

Now… to me it all seems very plain :

The Democrats look at all the illegal immigrants and this country, and see 12 MILLION new Democratic voters. It’s not outrageous to assume that the illegals, who are already taxing our overtaxed social safety nets will, once made legal and given voting rights, lean heavily to the Left, which always favors social give-aways.

The Catholic Churches in America, who’s attendance is sagging in the wake of scandal after scandal after scandal, sees 12 MILLION new additions to American pews – the vast preponderance of illegal immigrants being of the Catholic faith.

And the GOP, apparently too stupid to realize the implications of 12 MILLLION potential new Democratic voters – appear to be willing to throw the gates wide because Corporate America needs to be able to exploit all that “cheap labor”.

Steve Verdon’s post on Outside The Beltway is titled “Economically Unwise to Curtail Immigration”.

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He cites an Urban Institute report that posits the theory that it would be ‘economically unwise’ to be too draconian when it comes to immigration because, apparently, the exploited immigrant is helping to keep the cost of consumer goods down and propping up employment. As a courtesy to Mssr. Verdon I’m going to make you read his original post for the link.

He then goes on to do this odd “both sides of his mouth” thing, where out of one side he admits that there are “problems with illegal immigration”, but out of the other he gets firmly behind the Urban Institute’s issue, and states :

the illegal status of many immigrants puts them in a position where employers can pay them less than the prevailing minimum wage. This practice is bad for at least two reasons. The first is that it means immigrants are going to be pushing natives out of certain labor markets. The second problem is that it forces these immigrants to live in poverty (by U.S. standards) and puts a strain on things like health care and other social services.

Those aren’t “natives” Mr. Verdon, they’re AMERICANS.

Americans who are already taking huge amounts of pressure from the offshoring of both blue and white-collar jobs.

Then he tips his hand a little too far, and all the cards spill onto the table :

the solution appears to be to try and allow for greater legal immigration along with more enforcement of illegal immigraiton laws and stronger measures along the border to deter illegal immigration.

The solution is obvious – make illegal immigration… LEGAL.

As Emeril Lagasse would say. BAM! There it is.

When someone gets behind the idea that illegal immigration is necessary because Corporate America needs all that exploitable cheap labor – you have crossed a boundary that is nothing short of astonishing in it’s cynicism. Don’t believe me?

Read for yourself :

Many people simply state that they want immigration to stop. The problem is that that isn’t going to happen. The U.S. needs a steady flow of immigrants for the time being. We need it because of policies that are in place and impending demographic shifts that simply cannot be avoided.

Now… I once made the mistake of assuming that Mr. Verdon was a Republican, and he gave me a spanking for that assumption – pointing out to me that he was neither a Democrat or a Republican. Fair enough I suppose, but I’ve heard many, many in the GOP echo that exact same sentiment in the last few days, and it’s a heart breaker.

With all the scandal and problems and bottom of the barrel poll numbers already facing the Republican’s in the mid-terms this fall, selling out the American worker (even farther) and ignoring the public outcry over this issue could absolutely be the “wafer thin mint” that makes Mr. Creosote spew chunks at the voting booths in November.

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