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- MessiahCakes, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Three reasons why these tactics should never be ignored:
***Economic: Criminalizing a section of society that spends, during a period of economic recession, just seems stupid. It's been noted time and time again that by conducting mass raids on locales that are predominantly hispanic you alienate the entire hispanic population--both legal and illegal. Besides, basic economic theory dictates that spending by illegal immigrants and temporary workers is usually unaffected by recessions (they don't have all their apples in one place, sort-to-speak). If they don't leave because of lacking jobs, they stay and spend.
***Historic: "Yes, Hans, let's blame our economic woes on a minority that most mainstream citizens find deplorable, threatening, or who they simply don't see as human. Wait, even better. Let's just attack them, and maybe people will forget about the economy. Just tell them they are among them, even as we speak..."
***Humanitarian: The fact that massive public raids are being conducted at disproportionately hispanic venues hints to obvious stereotyping and racist issues. Illegal Asian immigrants? Illegal Eastern Europeans? No, apparently those don't exist. You can't collapse one category into another:
Some illegal immigrants are Latin American =/= All illegal immigrants are mexican. The logic is beyond racist and downright reactionary. Those terrible numbers just cements the entire issue: they're desperate for some symbolic public action, no matter how useless, and ineffective. - inactive, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Wow, and all this time I thought we were suppose to try and be legal citizens. I guess I totally am wrong.
