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originally posted by: seeker1963
a reply to: xuenchen
Dress, Doll, Frilly dress!!!!
Bring out the emotional correctness oh feared and adored leader! roflmao
A passage Munro found in Obama’s autobiography, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, finds Obama making the case that illegal immigration suppresses wages.
“[T]here’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border—a sense that what’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before,” then-Senator Obama wrote in his 2006 autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
“Native-born Americans suspect that it is they, and not the immigrant, who are being forced to adapt” to social changes caused by migration, he said.
“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century,” Obama noted. “If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole—especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
“And if I’m honest with myself, I must admit that I’m not entirely immune to such nativist sentiments,” Obama wrote. “When I see Mexican flags waved at pro-immigration demonstrations, I sometimes feel a flush of patriotic resentment. When I’m forced to use a translator to communicate with the guy fixing my car, I feel a certain frustration.”
originally posted by: Rocketgirl
Someone please tell me I'm dreaming all of this.
I'm speechless, I can't believe my ears. I do agree things need to change, but rewarding people who break the law is wrong. I wouldn't have a problem with illegals if they came into this country the right way. Giving illegals 5 years of temporary legal status is wrong when there are people who are trying and waiting to come into this country legally.
Gotta keep the destruction and 3rd world status of the US coming alone in line with the goals of the corporate masters!