Reply #16: Not odd at all. It's part and parcel of this union-bashing, profiteering [View All]

[Nothing Without Hope]

corrupt scheme. The amnesty would be a kindness to the illegal workers themselves, but it is very destructive to the cause of labor and a great boon to the profits of Bush cronies. And it encourages MORE illegal immigration.

Illegal immigrants, especially from Mexico, are endemic throughout the South - and in fact all over the country - picking fruit, laboring in fields, doing the dirtiest imaginable work in the Katrina areas, doing everything they are told and often living in terrible conditions and being paid almost nothing. When I was a child in Texas, my own uncle had a little group of cabins on his ranch (we were the poor relations; we had nothing to do with this and lived far away) where his illegals lived. He considered it just part of his business plan, as did basically all the other ranchers in the area. "His" immigrants were actually treated quite well, furnished with these homes with running water and toilets and medical care, but they are truly at the mercy of the people who hire them and many are not as kind as my uncle was.