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Published by vegankid | Filed under blogs and websites, Government, Immigration
IrrationalPoint over at The Soapbox has recently written a couple of posts about the racism of some US domestic policies. The first of which is title Land of Opportuninty and talks about the Bush administration’s immigration policy.
“If you’re doing a job an American won’t do”? Well that’s the give-away line, isn’t it? That’s the way the US makes it’s money kids: segregate the workforce, make the immigrants work the shitty jobs for shitty pay with no security that makes the US economy float, and then hound them down for being in the country illegally. Exploit the countries they come from so that, after you’ve deported them, they’re as desperate as you can make ‘em to come back to the US and do it all over again.
The second post is titled The Child Left Behind and talks about a very infamous piece of education policy that has greatly changed the way the public education system works here in the US.
And of course, these cuts are affecting the poorest school districts, so Latino kids are being affected disproportionately. So effectively, Dear Leader is creating a tiered education system, where the rich kids get a basic education and the poor kids don’t. And that system correlates strongly with race.
April 3rd, 2006 at 8:18 am Thanks for the link.
April 4th, 2006 at 1:46 pm I want to thank America for being one of the most generous and pro-immigrant countries on Earth.
June 6th, 2006 at 1:48 pm Hate that phrase "doing jobs Americans won't do". Gee, what person can live on one or two dollars an hour? How hard did Barbara Bush look for someone to clean her house, and raise her children, before she hired a migrant worker? Housekeeping jobs are one of the lowest paying jobs in the country, as is food service, motel cleaning, to name a few. That doesn't mean Americans weren't ready, willing and able to do them. Companies hire illegal immigrants to do construction jobs, because they don't have to bother with income taxes, insurances, and such. The worker gets paid a bit less than Union wages. The American worker loses a job they want to do. People buy into the myth, that Americans are lazy, slobs that don't want to work. The reality is it's a ploy for corporations to save or make more money. The people who accept substandard wages, bring the economy down, by forcing others to accept substandard wages as well.