I hate to sound like the Wonderful Wife, but "I heard a story this morning on NPR..."
The story was about the Alabama immigration law - more or less modeled on similar efforts in Arizona and to a lesser degree Georgia - that required a ton of documentation to go to school or hold a job.
What was amazing is that apparently the bill did everything detractors said it would do: drive up the cost of food and drive even legal immigrants underground or out of the state. The guy interviewed on NPR - who described himself as "conservative as they come" (and he's from freaking Alabama) - said that no one will take the crappy-assed jobs that he paid immigrants peanuts to do.
The hidden truth of the immigration debate is that America runs on
The only decent thing Bush proposed in his Presidency was a guest worker program that would allow Hispanics in particular the right to work here temporarily - which is all most of them want to do - and perhaps get on a path to citizenship. It's worth noting that the GOP killed that proposal. It is also worth noting that Rick Perry's decline came about for saying that it was heartless to punish the children of illegal immigrants for their parent's crime.
Both Bush and Perry know the value of illegal labor in this country and the prevailing demographic tide, because they lived in a border state.
To the rest of the GOP, it's just more brown people coming here to mess with Real Murika.
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