The Real Root of the Immigration Crisis: Abortion

By John Scott Lucas

I recently discovered a Max Blumenthal video featuring interviews with conservative kids at the College Republican National Convention who support the war in Iraq making the mostly flaccid excuses for why they can't personally serve in the military. Check out the article and video here. There's a brilliant moment when disgraced Republican Tom Delay neatly ties the right to life movement to the immigration issue, saying that if all those babies who have been aborted in our country had been allowed to grow up, their numbers would be more than sufficient to fill the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. So, if we made abortion illegal, we would no longer have an immigration problem in this country.

The discredited former power broker didn't mention anything about all those Americans who are unemployed yet refuse to pick grapes or sew low-cost tee shirts or work as domestic servants or gardeners. Still, his line of reasoning is truly an inspiration. Here's my answer to Delay: if we made abortion illegal today, we'd still have to wait for all those babies to grow up enough to take back all those jobs from the illegal immigrants. But if we freed all the American prisoners currently serving long mandatory sentences for minor narcotics offenses, we could fix the illegal immigration issue right now! Now, I know that Tom is a proponent of the Rockefeller Laws (they don't call him "The Hammer" for nothing), yet maybe he might be willing to consider more lenient sentencing guidelines, seeing as how he's looking at serving some jail time himself pretty soon.

Comments

[Heather]

How about corporations and companies pay a living wage so that Americans will be motivated to take these jobs that they supposedly "don't want"?

I never bought that whole line of reasoning...hell, I'd consider cleaning toilets if it paid $18 per hour.

And another thing, I hate to say it but were abortion to be made illegal, I don't think these pro-life conservatives would like the results of thousands more unwanted and lower-income children.

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