Turquoise wrote:
That's why I say, "Fuck the protesters."
More conservatives and moderate liberals need to rub that in the faces of the activists. They can bitch and moan, but in the end, we'll just be doing what Mexico does itself.
If we can get the hell out of Iraq, we'll have the troops to spare for the border.
One small problem with the the idea Turq. The pro-immigrant protesters aren't just saying "throw open the borders". It's not a single-issue situation. It doesn't just involve US immigration policy, it also involves trade policy, the policies of the Mexican government and the US government's complicity in supporting the Mexican wealthy class as they line their pockets at the expense of the Mexican people. Mexico's aggressive policing of their southern border is just one more symptom of what's wrong there, not an example we should be trying to follow.
I guess that's one of the things that pisses me off about this issue. Our government spends a lot of time shitting across the border, wrecking their domestic industries and agriculture with "free trade" deals that only benefit our nation and the wealthy class of Mexico and people here just blow the whole thing off with "Stay there and fix your own country". Which is a lot like going into your neighbor's house and taking a dump on the couch, then telling him to fix it himself since it's in his house and not yours.
So many people view this as if it's an adversarial relationship between the US and the Mexican governments. It's not. Both sides benefit from the situation as it is, neither have an interest in changing it and neither of them care about the consequences for those beneath them. We get the big public pronouncements from people like Tom Tancredo who talk tough about border security while their political party heads cut more deals that screw us
and the Mexican people, out of the public eye of course.
Personally, I say "fuck the moderate liberals". Their wussy "let's go along to get along" shite is part of what got us into the sorry state we're in now. They need to quit being the whipping boys/30-yard targets for the right wing and remember that this isn't a one-party system.