re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

One of the few things I agreed with GW Bush about was his immigration reform policy. But his own party would not get on board with it. Too many vested interests in keeping a steady flow of cheap, easily exploited workers.

And too many interests in criminalizing those seeking to come here on a temporary basis to do jobs Americans wont do (like working in fields or doing food service/processing jobs) on the cheap. Instead of criminalizing those who hire undocumented persons, we criminalize those who are hoping to work periodically in the US and then prevent them from cycling through the border (fences don’t stop people from coming here, but they do make it harder for people to return back to Mexico). Cyclical flow would be healthy, but that’d require more and faster processing of visas.

Heck, cyclical flow would be a net positive if you raised fees to do all that work and legalized the flow of people coming in and allow them to return home. This isn’t about amnesty, but to recognize that the cyclical flow of people to work in the US is a net benefit.

The problem for the GOP is that they *hate* persons of color, and those coming through the border (Mexican border is all that matters to the GOP) is that they’re not white.

They don’t care that those coming from Latin America are religious, Christian, etc., or even “conservative” because they don’t have the right skin tone, and demonize them anyways. This could be a natural base for the GOP to grow, but the GOP attacks POC at every turn, and Trump’s explicitly calling for expulsion of millions of POC and Latinos.

It’s insane, but that’s the GOP.