Reply #13: You do realize that the only reason there are 'illegal' immigrants is [View All]

[RaleighNCDUer]

because of the racist quota system for legal immigration - can't have to many dark-skinned people coming into the country all at once, you see. Has NOTHING to do with job availability (we always need far more workers than legal immigration allows). It's all about the "ability to assimilate", meaning the ability to look like the people who designed the Eurocentric quota.

Indeed, treating undocumented workers as criminals creates a criminal class, because it gives them no option but to deal with real criminals.

The real crime was in passing NAFTA without simultaneously creating an open border. We wrecked the Mexican economy for the benefit of international corporations, and the immigrant migration is the direct result.

From the very first restriction on immigration in the end of the 19th century, the law has been designed to maintain the primacy of North Europeans in America. It is, and always been, racist to limit the opportunities of this country to one race.

IMMIGRANTS are the backbone of this country. Legal or otherwise.