Immigration Nation

Springtime for the Bush administration is here. It's not that the flowers are blooming and the grass is getting greener. It's not that my allergies are acting up and pollen is all over my car in the morning.
No, it's because another hot topic has come and is on it's way out, to take attention from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm talking about the immigration debate that has been hot for a few weeks, but no one will be talking about as much a month from now.
It's the way this administration deals with it's main problems. In Spring 2002, it was the fuss over Catholic priests molesting little boys. This has been a joke for the Catholic church for decades. Why start to change it all of a sudden? Because we couldn't find Osama bin Laden.
In Spring 2003, we went to war with Iraq? Why? Because we couldn't find Osama bin Laden, but maybe him and Saddam Hussein swapped recipies for Molotov cocktails once.
In Spring 2004, we debate gay marriage? Why? Because "Mission Accomplished" was becoming more and more of a joke. Oh, the war had hit it's one year anniversary with insurgents NOT greeting the troops as liberators.
In Spring 2005, it was Terry Schiavo. Why? Well, it was a slow month. Some shallow cunt who was pretty on the outside, but didn't love herself inside had gone into a coma because of eating disorders. Her brain was liquid shit, but Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) who is also a medical doctor thought she was A-Okay and there was no reason her husband should take the feeding tube out.
Now, it's immigration. Every few years, we bring this topic up and we forget to address the key issues. Syndicated columnist Molly Irvins said the U.S. Government should send employers to jail for hiring illegal aliens. Well, I agree with that, but, let's face it. We don't want to do that, because the corporations control lobbyists and lobbyists give money to politicians to vote their way. In Mexico, a worker makes about $5 a day in U.S. dollars. In America, minimum wage is $5.15. An employer plays a Mexican worker half or one-third of that and who's to complain. The Mexican worker is making more and the employer doesn't have to report taxes and if the worker gives him any lip, fire him and tip off INS. An employer likes an employee who will roll over on command and not pose a threat.
I know what you're thinking, Mexicans shouldn't be coming over here to work our jobs. About seven years ago as a writer for my college newspaper at Georgia Southern University, I attended a speech by Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers of America. She said that employers are shipping these Mexicans in to work in places. She cited a bust by immigration officials in Lyons, Georgia. Now, how many Mexicans are in Mexico right now searching for work in Lyons, Georgia, because they've heard good things about the town.
Let's face it, slavery helped build this country. Illegal aliens working are a new form of slavery and we slap the people on the wrist with fines.
This is all about brown people. We don't say anything about Peter Jennings working for ABC for so long without becoming a U.S. citizen. Charles Chaplin was never a U.S. citizen and America took an good moment to revoke his visa. We didn't care about them working in America, did we?
No. You know why? "Because Mexicans work the jobs we (Americans) don't want to work."
Bullshit!
Mexicans work the jobs the employers don't want to pay Americans a decent wage to work. You mean to tell me that if all your bills were past due and your utilities were about to be shut off, you wouldn't work $5.15 busting tables at a restaurant? You wouldn't work outside in a nursery planting trees.
Bullshit. It's total bullshit. But listening to that crap all these years, Americans more or less know feel that they're too good for low level jobs. "You got to start somewhere" has turned to "I'm not going to work for nothing." Granted, I've worked crappy jobs for low wages. But that's the way it is sometimes. But you can work the jobs until you can find something better.
I don't support this Minutemen bullshit. It doesn't bother me that somethings are written in Spanish as well as English. If you're going to bitch and gripe about English in America, then everyone should have the same dialect. I can't stand to listen to people like Boston Rob as much as I can't stand to listen to Larry the Cable Guy. But they speak English, so we don't care.
It's about time we stopped picking on those trying to chose a better life. I know they work over here for a few years, save up, and go back. But America is all about that. Work as little as possible, become rich, and never work again. It's about the pursuit of happiness.
And if you don't like it, you can get out!