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IMMIGRATION IS FUNNY

This from Kevin Drum.

A Day Without a Mexican

I have written about this before.

I suppose that Texas is like California.

If suddenly all the undocumented workers here were to disappear there would be a catastrophe occur for the documented.

Houses would not get cleaned. lawns and shrubs would go unshriven, most construction would grind to a halt, restaurants would have to close their doors and white people would generally be up shit's creek. Down valley, the agricultural operations woud grind to a halt.

On top of that, the local economy would be in severe trouble because it would lose all the illegal's business across the board. Even the cheap movies in Cathedral City would have to close. There is an entire shopping center there obviously devoted to what I consider the "native Californian".

I say native because these people lived here long before we did. They got shoved south and then had to beg their way back in through immigration processes. But that is long ago.

The hispanic community here in the valley and in most of California approaches and sometimes becomes a majority.

We have never asked if the gardener workers we had were legal. We do not actually know the status of the woman who cleaned for us for many years. It would be rude to ask.

We have never withheld taxes. All cash.

Sure, "they" don't pay taxes although many do now. A lot of bona fide citizens don't pay taxes either. Or find loopholes out.

That compensates for the low pay that they get. Typically 10.00 an hour if they are lucky.

It is so fucked up.

It is routine out here for the Feds to simply ignore the situation. There is a roundup every week at a hiring spot in Indio and a warning is tacked onto a tree. The people who show up there want to be deported so that they can go home for awhile. Free flight. They will be back.

Arizona is nuts because there are so many right wing weirdos there. Not because of the immigrants. They are not taking anyone's job and the claims about crime are bogus. It is racism pure and simple. And so on.

And on.

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