Immgration and the Census

I just finished a post to my "history blog" about illegal immigrants and whether or not they should cooperate with the up-coming national census. How can people be in this country illegally and be counted toward the total population of the state and county in which they illegal live? How can one government agent count a person who another government agent is suppose to arrest? Talk about the need for an overhaul of our immigration policy. What really burns my butt is the fact that during the last election cycle those who complained the most about the illegal alien population were the same ones who regularly benefit from that population. The company owners who hired illegals, or looked the other way when an agent did so, then paid then as little as possible with no benefits or legal rights and threatened them with the INS if they complained. The country club types who needed someone to water the greens and cut the fairways and didn't want to pay a decent wage for the work. The wealthy who also needed their lawns mowed and bushes trimmed for as little as they could get away with. The giant agricultural mega-farms who needed cheap labor. These are the ones who have always wanted cheap labor, be it slaves, children or illegals, and who in most cases are registered republicans.

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An op ed article in The Record on June 17, 2009 was entitled "Don't lump conservatives with the radical right" and written by a "fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs" at UVA. The writer notes the controversy over Lush Limbaugh's "more incendiary statements" and says conservative republicans should not be branded with his extreme right-wing political stands. She probably is correct but where was she when conservatives branded liberal democrats-like myself-with the "socialist" label. I have even had family members do it. For how long have we been treated to the GOP referring to Obama as a "terrorist" or "communist"? This has always been a mark of a conservative in this country; call those who disagree with you any name you can think of, question his manhood, call him an atheist, or if you can't think of anything else just plain call him an asshole. Just remember, you conservatives, if someone thinks differently they "just don't know what they are talking about", so don't argue the facts, just label him a "commie" or whatever, it's easier then trying to think of something intelligent to say.