From a NEXTopia reader:
My objection is with this line of reasoning in Chris Collins' blog:
If we object to Mexicans legally entering the United States because we don't want to deal with their cultural influences, their political views or their willingness to take up all the blue-collar jobs, then that's a problem. That's borderline racism.
Personally I love Mexican culture, lived in Mexico, married a Latina and have Spanish speaking offspring. I'm less of a racist than many people I have known who complain loudly of racism against their own race but turn around and are racist against Caucasians or Asians or some other group.
I was frequently shocked at the racism that many Latinos have against African-Americans or that light-skinned African-Americans have against darker skinned
African-Americans. I even think that people like Clarence Thomas are racist against African-Americans in general. But immigration isn't a race issue, it is one of human and labor rights.
What if the political views of immigrants include the acceptance of being rightless and living in fear of deportation for so much as questioning the neofascism that grips this country? Is a union that objects to "scab" labor being racist? Is the left too blind to see that the goal of the right in this country is to replace the middle class empowered workers with rightless importable/exportable serfs?
The rules should be really simple: if you work here, you can vote here and organize here without fear of deportation. If the right wing is unwilling to allow
immigrants to vote, then they should not be entitled to enjoy the fruits of immigrant serf labor.
Immigrants should be assimilated into an empowered middle class, not used to destroy it.
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