1/With people freaking out about the Honduran migrant caravan now forcing its way through Mexico, I figured it might be time for a thread about Central American immigration.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2018-10-21/migrant-caravan-continues-toward-u-s-even-as-trump-threatens-military-intervention …
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I am 62 years old and have lived in the midwest, south and Appalachia, working in and around factories. I hear people complain about immigrants -- but I can't remember it ever really being a problem. Except when there weren't enough to pick tomatoes.
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Having an exploited permanent underclass is economically advantageous, but also a serious moral problem.
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Agreed. Amnesty is the only common sense answer.
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Blanket amnesty is politically impossible. It is necessary to try to find a compromise such as the 2007 immigration bill. Such a compromise can't be reached if everyone takes the panglossian attitude of
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Whatever happened to that 2007 bill?? Hmm...
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It failed. Your point?
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You seemed to be explicitly presenting it as an example of what is politically possible. No?
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I am saying that a political compromise such as the 2007 bill is necessary because a blanket amnesty bill is far less likely to pass Congress.
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