2016 Postmortem

RiverLover

(7,830 posts)

8. Both!

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 09:48 AM

Feb 2016

Of course its about both.

They bring in slaves essentially who are taking jobs Americans could do, & American workers would work at a rate that will allow profit for the employer, just not obscene profits compared to hiring slaves.

*In some cases, probably more than we know, they really are slaves.

Ie, Four accused of aiding slave-labor ring on Ohio egg farms
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/07/02/Four-indicted-in-egg-farm-labor-ring.html

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

40 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

So Bernie, what was your 2007 vote against the immigration reform bill really about? [View all] bigtree Feb 2016 OP

Predictably Spreading Establishment FUD - Meme Number 27 cantbeserious Feb 2016 #1

I'm sick of seeing this ridiculous spam bigtree Feb 2016 #2

So why do you keep posting it? AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #4

thanks for chiming in bigtree Feb 2016 #12

Make that three. cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #30

Some Citizens Are Sick Of Seeing Ridiculous Attacks Spreading FUD cantbeserious Feb 2016 #5

Was it about a last ditch effort to salvage Nevada? Warren Stupidity Feb 2016 #3

What's remarkable is that you think these statements conflict jberryhill Feb 2016 #6

they actually do contradict each other bigtree Feb 2016 #7

Both! RiverLover Feb 2016 #8

And LULAC is defending Bernie's statement Kittycat Feb 2016 #9

of course, the latter was their opinion which Sanders leveraged for his later explanation bigtree Feb 2016 #10

That's funny, O'Malley disagreed with your take on Hillary and immigration: beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #15

I agree with O'Malley on that bigtree Feb 2016 #19

Weren't you referring to Hillary's history with latinos? beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #20

Pathetic. Obviously he could have had more than one reason for voting against it. Vattel Feb 2016 #11

x 100000 AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #14

^^^THIS^^^ beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #16

you know, a lot of folks like me take this really seriously bigtree Feb 2016 #17

I didn't call you stupid. But Clinton's attempt to artfully smear Sanders Vattel Feb 2016 #26

Then if you think his vote was WRONG, then I conclude that you LOVE slave labor for foreign workers! cascadiance Feb 2016 #33

right bigtree Feb 2016 #34

Well, you and SOME of them may accusations of Bernie against immigration reform based on that vote! cascadiance Feb 2016 #35

I was very specific in what I wrote bigtree Feb 2016 #36

The article tried to posit that Bernie CHANGED his story about guest worker programs... cascadiance Feb 2016 #38

I guess the folks deported don't need to worry about any of that now bigtree Feb 2016 #39

Look, I do believe that we ALL want immigration reform. Hillary folk, stop trying to divide us! cascadiance Feb 2016 #40

this bill got only 45 votes on the CLOTURE vote which needed 60 karynnj Feb 2016 #13

Bernie the politician workinclasszero Feb 2016 #18

T'm tired of this BS - another deception brought to us by the Clintons Jarqui Feb 2016 #21

Video of the first speech at 15:10:00 Jarqui Feb 2016 #22

KABOOM! There it is, thread over, meme destroyed. beam me up scottie Feb 2016 #23

rec MerryBlooms Feb 2016 #32

Tell me what you think it's about. Do you really believe Sanders is a racist? DisgustipatedinCA Feb 2016 #24

that has to be the worst tactic ever invented here bigtree Feb 2016 #28

No, I'm not alerting on anything, and of course you don't have to answer. But... DisgustipatedinCA Feb 2016 #29

I guess you are trying bigtree Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2016 #25

Why did Clinton deny licences to immigrants Truprogressive85 Feb 2016 #27

It was probably about what some republican attached to what was an otherwise good bill. cherokeeprogressive Feb 2016 #31

We all should be proud to let UglyGreed Feb 2016 #37