Who out there is tired of some Americans complaining about undoc workers?

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Scapegoating is precisely the correct term: launch an all-out hate attack against people who are different and blame them for economic woes resulting not from undocumented workers but from global oligopolies and monopolies that have exported our manufacturing base and our good jobs; that have reduced quality and coverage of our health care; that have secured for themselves tax benefits and government subsidies not accessible to "mom and pop" small businesses and, lacking a level playing field, find themselves forced out of business; that have taken over our government, exercising such power that their lobbyists write the laws and regulations pertaining to their interests, etc., etc.

It is not so much an issue of fatigue: if the problem were what it is falsely purported to be, we could not hear enough about it. What we are not beginning to hear about is the power of corporate America, which now even owns or controls our media!

People who fall for the corporatist propaganda, that immigrants are nothing but an expense to our economy, should begin not with statistics provided by the scapegoat-the-immigrant propaganda, but with the facts, which is that their contribution to our economy--in stark contrast to that of corporate America--has been a net plus:

"During the 1990s, half of all new workers were foreign-born, filling gaps left by native-born workers in both the high- and low-skill ends of the spectrum. Immigrants fill jobs in key sectors, start their own businesses, and contribute to a thriving economy. The net benefit of immigration to the U.S. is nearly $10 billion annually. As Alan Greenspan points out, 70% of immigrants arrive in prime working age. That means we haven’t spent a penny on their education, yet they are transplanted into our workforce and will contribute $500 billion toward our social security system over the next 20 years

(Source: Andrew Sum, Mykhaylo Trubskyy, Ishwar Khatiwada, et al., Immigrant Workers in the New England Labor Market: Implications for Workforce Development Policy, Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University, Boston, Prepared for the New England Regional Office, the Employment and Training Administration, and the U.S. Department of Labor, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2002.)"