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Illegal Immigration: Self-Interest Disguised as Morality

If you're able to afford to hire an illegal immigrant to do your lawn or clean your house, you support illegal immigration.  That's a demographic fact.  Rich people support illegal immigration. Those who actually live around illegal immigrants are more likely to oppose illegal immigration. Could those who live with illegal immigrants have an insight that we lack?  Maybe they know something we don't.  Can't be.  No way.  Instead, we high income earners are more enlightened than those fat, poor, ugly, white, racist Arizonans.  That is the only rational explanation for why we support - and they oppose - illegal immigration. Meanwhile, those of us who support illegal immigration would never live in the same neighborhoods as illegal immigrants.  Instead, we live in rich, white enclaves...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 02, 2010 (boomark / email).