Originally Posted by onlyoneplanet

I could care less--let 'em hop the border. Who else will take anti-septic jobs? Who the hell would clean up puke in bars or do laundry for a living? Who wants to mop floors and wash dishes?

Not even America's teenagers would do that, they all work in retail and whatnot.

The fact is that NAFTA and WTO fucked and continue to fuck a lot of people over, and now we need to protect our country from the people who's lives we're destroying?

This is what I've been saying when I'm talking about how Americans only look a few years into the future and forget about the past so quickly. In the early-mid 1990's we said "let's move all our business to third world countries, make their poor/working class work for our companies, put their businesses in a position where they can't support themselves, put the people into a position where they won't be able to afford further education and improve the lives of the upper-middle class yet some more!"

Now what? They say "we don't want those dirty immigrants in our country, yeah the ones who's lives we ruined a decade ago".

Besides, people should view the world as a whole anyway, not as separate countries. Abstractions shouldn't have the right to lay claim to a specific peice of land, it simply divides the world and the people who belong to the countries.

That's my take on it, anyhow.