A friend sent me this gem of a quote that was one of their guy’s attempt to demonstrate how moderate and compassionate he is on immigration. Too bad for them, when an intelligent person reads it, it’s clear that even when the Repubs are trying to act like they understand the need for immigration reform, for them it comes back to “what can they do for me?”
“A tough, fair and practical comprehensive solution will help the economy by turning undocumented workers into legal taxpayers and ensure that businesses have the necessary labor they need to compete.”
Notice they start with “tough,” throw in “fair” to seem almost reasonable before immediately going into what they really care about – more low-income people paying taxes to make up for their tax cuts and cheap labor to exploit for more corporate profits. No mention or appreciation of the humanitarian issues, the struggles immigrant families face, the laundry list of contributions to our country from doing jobs others won’t or spilling their blood for our country – just pay taxes and give businesses what “they need.”
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totally heartless. Not surprising though. Not a word about “human dignity” or anything of that sort…
JTB I think you got the spelling wrong on who the author of that quote is. It’s by Bennet but the one with one T in his name not the other Republican who just lost.
That quote is from Colorado’s own Senator Bennet and is positioned right at the top of his handout on immigration. But you are right that it sounds like it is from a Republican. What would you expect from a guy who was Phil Anschutz errand boy and then the wrecker in-chief at DPS? At least he’s consistent. For Anschutz he rams a deal through that forces a public company to take a loan out to pay a cash dividend to Anschutz and himself that caused the Louisiana Teachers Pension to file suit over the screwing they took. For DPS, he systematically closed schools with the highest minority enrollment and pushed under-performing kids out so he could claim he didn’t have as many who under-performed. Why would it surprise anybody that he views immigrants as tools to make his buddies more money?