"40% of all workers in L.A. County are working for cash," a scurrilous attack on 'illegal aliens' just emailed me says, "and not paying taxes..because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card."
i.e. They are slave labor, used the same way we have always used migrants -- to do our shit work for barely starvation pay.
The fault lies not in the slaves, but in the slave masters, the corporations, and the wealthy ruling elite who employ them -- and the rest of us who pretend it's all the fault of the poor bastards being ground under our heels.
The corporate media is, as always, a major part of the problem by constantly writing stories blaming the slaves.
And as long as we tsk tsk about the slaves and demand we 'SEND THEM BACK' where they came from (impractical, insane, and inhumane), there will never be a solution.
Of course, if we ever actually did manage to send them back, it would be a disaster. Why, we would have to start paying decent wages to native-born Americans to do all our crappy miserable jobs.
Posted by Deck at November 29, 2006 06:51 AM