[lit-ideas] Re: The Ends of the World
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:15:44 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
Just curious, why does asking someone to enter a country legally and be counted
make the asking party a master race? Isn't it quite to the contrary giving the
entering party some sort of status instead of allowing them to be exploited in
the shadows as a nonentity? I can counter that doing nothing at all to stop
illegal immigration is encouraging a master/slave class. BTW, at 4 million
Mexican illegals per year, the country will have swelled by 80 million in the
next 20 years just in illegals. I guess there's room for everybody.
Being illegal just doesn't have the negative ring it used to have. Maybe
that's a good thing.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Jan 4, 2005 2:18 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Ends of the World
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> I know it sounds racist to say anything, but really, what's wrong with
> legal? The reason legal doesn't work (obviously), is that it takes
> too long, and Mexicans are Mexico's export crop to the U.S.,
> literally. They come here by simply walking over the border, work,
> and send money back home, enriching the Mexican economy tremendously.
> Like driving at whatever speed one wants, sneaking over the border is
> seeing oneself as above the law. Bush has done nothing, except
> propose legalization to get the vote. The borders may as well not be
> there, for how effective they are.
M.C. Of course Bush has done nothing, because the under-the-table
economy is vital to the American economy. In modern industrial
societies, there's always a semi-legal underclass that does the work
the Master Race is too proud, lazy, or squeamish to do. In the US it's
(primarily) Mexicans, in France it's (primarily) Africans, in
Switzerland it's (primarily) Portuguese who are the chambermaids,
garbagemen, construction workers. If the Mexicans who disgust Andy so
much all decided not to show up for work for a week, the US economy
would grind to a halt : and then Andy would have to serve his own
coffee at Starbuck's, and maybe even have to clean the toilets as well.
Can't have that, now, can we?
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Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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