Tue
May 2 2006
10:08 am
Facing South update...
By: R. Neal

I've got some commentary over at Facing South on yesterday's "Day Without Immigrants". (Thanks, Brian, for that Lamar! link.) Scroll on down for some other excellent roundups by Chris, and some interesting debate about how this issue is playing (or not) in the liberal blogosphere.

(My take is that Democrats are worried about being sucked in to yet another divisive class war engineered by Republicans desperate to stay in power by any means necessary.)

Anyway, there may be more later today, but right now I'm off to vote. See you at the polls!

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day without immigrants

Submitted by Stacey Diamond (not verified) on Tue, 2006/05/02 - 2:17pm.

I find a strange alignment of people who want cheap labor and left-wing humanitarian types on this. I don't know if some know what they are protesting for or against. I think immigrants should be treated with dignity, allowed to come legally and allowed to become citizens or go back home easily after working. I don't believe they are doing jobs Americans won't do. I think these businesses target people they won't need to offer benefits to. I'm glad Koch foods is unionized now, a huge feat. It irritates me when people on the right believe immigrants are "taking our Tenn Care." It irritates me when people on the left see all this as America's problem and not putting some of the blame on Fox and Mexico, who weren't paying good wages before NAFTA either. Stacey

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