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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Matt Purple :: Townhall.com Columnist
Open Border Conservatives Speak Out
by Matt Purple
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The most pronounced opposition to illegal immigration has come from conservative talk radio and cable news, where hosts like Lou Dobbs and Laura Ingraham frequently rail against illegal immigrants and open border policies.

Such conservatives don’t think very highly of their open borders brethren. In a 2007 online video, popular anti-illegal immigration blogger Michelle Malkin called Riley’s Wall Street Journal editorial board “effete conservative elites”. Many conservatives have also blasted President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) for supporting a bill that would offer illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.

Riley said that many of the arguments used for cracking down on illegals are either false or misleading, such as the contention that immigrants take American jobs.

“The typical immigrant is either higher-skilled or lower-skilled than the average American, so they tend to complement the workforce rather than take jobs,” he said.

He also pointed to declining welfare caseloads, poverty, child poverty, and hunger over the past fifteen years as evidence that recent illegal immigration has not harmed the country.

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Matt Purple is an editorial intern with Townhall.com and is studying politics at Catholic University.

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Reply # 1
Date: Jun 29, 2008 - 11:03 PM EST
nonsense, matthood
We'll see a short section of matthood's demented post. That'll be enough.

"Subject: illegal destroy unions and american labo
I worked the last Union job in Freeport, Texas at Dow Chemical in 1981. Dow Chemical, the petro-chemcial industry use the non-union contractors to destroy organized labor and now just labor by their use of illegal aliens."

QUESTION, Matt:

Are you eligible to get hired by Dow without your union card? YES; therefore you have no jerk-off coming. A level playing field gives YOU as much opportunity as the next guy. It's irrelevant if the other guy is a Mexican national. He qualifies.


"Texas has been reduced to a nation of sharcroppers of under paid skilled craftsman who work on the Dow Chemical industry plantation were the illegals have brought back economic slavery over the past 30 years where all of us American's have become negro's because of the Mexican nationals."

Pardon my saying it;

But how could that ever happen to a nicer guy than an arrogant, racist Texan? Are you a sharecropper today? FINE. Get to work & stop your squawking.

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Date: Jun 29, 2008 - 7:58 PM EST
illegal destroy unions and american labo
I worked the last Union job in Freeport, Texas at Dow Chemical in 1981. Dow Chemical, the petro-chemcial industry use the non-union contractors to destroy organized labor and now just labor by their use of illegal aliens. Texas has been reduced to a nation of sharcroppers of under paid skilled craftsman who work on the Dow Chemical industry plantation were the illegals have brought back economic slavery over the past 30 years where all of us American's have become negro's because of the mexican nationals. The reason 46 millions have no health care is because they don;t have to in a NAZI RIGHT TO WORK STATES. Wall Streets sold us out during WW2 by siding with Adolf Hitler as well as Mexico, who refused to sell us gas during WW2 who conspired with the Nazi's to invade Texas and the Southwest. Mr Jason Riley and Michail Barone act like Nazi's who believe in economic treason has an excuse for free trade.
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