Reply #5: I don't buy it...illegal immigration is undercutting our unions [View All]

[Xithras]

Try to find a good union job in the trucking, construction, or maintenance industries anymore...it's damned near impossible in many areas of the country. Why? Because the illegals are willing to work for a few bucks a day, undercut union wage scales, and make it generally impossible for union shops to land anything other than government work in much of the west today. Illegal immigration simply feeds the corporate monster looking for ever lower wages and slave-like control over their employees, and it needs to be stopped...yesterday.

And as for the historical revisionism that many pro-immigrant types like to spout off about the west being Mexican anyway: When Mexico was freed and inherited the nothern lands of the modern Southwest, there were practically no Mexicans in that land and it was primarily controlled by the few remaining Spaniard descendents and the missionaries. By the time Mexico lost the lands a few decades later, there were still less than 10,000 Mexican colonist families who had moved into this relatively empty wilderness and who were spread across an area from Texas, to Utah, to California.

It's also worth mentioning (though seemingly ignored in mainstream history books) that the Mexican colonists were also slaveholders who took the Native Americans they "freed" from the missions and forced them to work their newly acquired land. Those Mexicans who would claim some kind of bond and solidarity with the American Natives would do well to remember that their relationship is hauntingly similar to that of the white and black. The true heirs of this land are today sadly still largely relegated to their reservations and perpetual welfare state. To them, the Mexicans streaming across the border today are simply the third wave of invaders to stake some kind of claim to their land (first the Spaniards, then the Americans, now the Mexicans).