Super-Rookie has been talking lots-o-smack for a few months about how he let me win the Minnesota Category 3 Match Sprint State Championships.
No one has been able to make an unbiased determination based upon memory of the now infamous event. Let’s roll some recently unearthed video and review that great pair up.
It’s clear that Super-Rookie sat up at the end of the race. But did he sit up to let me win or did he realize that his monkey-ass was good and well bespanked?
I have my own opinion, I was there. But I will let you be the judge.
The largest single workplace raid targeting illegal immigrants, which snared nearly 1,300 people at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Minnesota and five other states this week, had its origin in the small-town jail in Marshalltown, Iowa.
First off, the term “illegal immigrants” is loaded because it’s not a criminal offense to be in the United States without documentation. It’s a civil offense and it only results in deportation.
Second, I have no problem with government raiding work sites looking for undocumented workers. However, I believe that instead of rounding up and deporting these people, they should simply document their presence in this country, give them legal work status and start collecting legitimate federal and state tax revenue from their work.
While being in the United States without documentation is not a criminal offense, crossing into the US without documentation certainly is. Would allowing undocumented workers to stay in the US reward the criminal behavior of crossing into the United States illegally? It sure would. But it would cost much more to deport these people than it would to just register them. Plus we would all benefit from their legal work status.
There has been a lot of rhetoric the past few years about securing the border and I for one believe that we need to do a better job of controlling the borders of this country. However, I believe that a number of those who call for more border security are only doing so in order to prevent more minorities from taking up residence in the US. Make the border secure to keep who those who wish to come and do this country harm, but allow anyone from anywhere to come if they wish to find a job and contribute to the economy.
Do immigrants take jobs away from American citizens? I don’t believe it. We are as close to full employment in this country as we have ever been. With the US unemployment rate sitting at about 5% pretty much everyone who wants to have a job is working. That means that we have a labor shortage. What happens if all the undocumented workers in the US are deported? Those hotel rooms still have to be cleaned, the meatpacking still has to be done, roofs still need to be reshingled. American citizens are not flocking to those jobs for two reasons: hardship of the job and the pay rate. In order for employers to entice Americans to consider these jobs they are going to have to increase the pay rate, in some cases dramatically. Care to guess what that will do to the cost of a hotel room? The cost of food? Everything goes up in price.
Immigration is an overall big plus for the United States. Let them in I say. I only ask that those immigrants be documented so they pay their share of the social expense. Those that call for deportation and limits are immigration are only exposing their not always subtle racism and xenophobia.
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