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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] Why all this now, though? I mean, the border-crossings have been going on for years, and apart the usual background-hum hand-wringing on the subject nothing's really been done. It seems that as long as TPTB's gardens were nicely tended, their kids were looked after and their sweatshops were fully staffed, then it wasn't really a problem. Hell, they even moved all their factories down south of the border to cash in on all that cheap labour, but they just kept coming. For the most part I tend to avoid the right-wing extrusion of the blogosphere, as I prefer to enjoy continued digestion of my last meal. But even my limited sampling therein seems to suggest that this new policy is viewed as half-assed at best, given none of the border state governors were consulted and the person charged with implementing the policy has made several off-message, don't-have-a-clue pronouncements. And why, they wail, wasn't something done immediately after September 11th 2001? Despite all that, I think the policy will be popular. Why? If I could (no access to that site from this PC) I'd link to a recent entry on Tom Tomorrow's blog about how (paraphrasing heavily) most Americans seem to cling to the American Dream, even though most of them manifest almost no part of it in their daily lives, because they believe that if they're good little consumers they may get admitted to the American Dream Country Club. And so, if they can struggle with expensive healthcare based on expensive insurance but still persist in believing that universal state-provided healthcare is Socialist And Bad, then they can also believe that (despite all being the descendants of immigrants, even merely second-generation ones) Further Immigration Is Bad. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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