Conservative’s guide to ending immigration forever-Simple solution: Make everything in America Suck
The conservative’s guide to ending immigration forever
A simple solution: Make everything in America suck more
BY ALEX PAREENE
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If you’re not married to an American, or a genius, or a famous celebrity, you will wait many more years. Unless you’re “unskilled,” with no American relatives, and from a nation ineligible for the “diversity lottery,” in which case you have literally no path to permanent residence, let alone citizenship, at all.
Which is not to say America doesn’t happily accept your cheap, unregulated labor! It’s actually pretty win-win for the “pro-business” crowd because they have a huge pool of manual laborers with virtually no legal protections at all, and that pool has no right to organize — and no opportunity to win the right to organize for voting for people to represent their interests in the legislatures!
The Obama administration’s plan is actually perfect for conservatives because it grants people the right to work but not to enjoy many of the other various benefits of citizenship, like “voting for Democrats.”
So if you’re OK with a massive semi-permanent underclass of unprotected laborers with no opportunity to use the levers of democracy to win better treatment for themselves, you should be fine with the status quo and not hugely worried by the president’s initiative. If you just want those damn foreigners to go away, you can still relax, because the people in charge of things are making this country just crappy enough to convince those foreigners that maybe things aren’t so bad where they are.
the rest:
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/18/the_conservatives_guide_to_ending_immigration_forever/singleton/