illegal immigration - treason?

http://www.vdare.com/pb/060528_unamerican.htm

http://www.today.ucla.edu/2006/060509voice_immigrants.html

http://tikkun.org/rabbi_lerner/news_item.2006-07-06.3854364776

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so, after reading a few of these crazy articles on illegal immigration, I realised how many stances there really are on this issue. The first article, vdare.com, talked about how some see the illegal immigration problem as un-American. even TREASON. Treason? It's a little extreme. This piece was entirely persuasive and satirical, but it made me think about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and the language it was written in. It was left fairly open, to many interpretations, which has already led to a debate for the issues of: gay/lesbian marriage, abortion, racism, etc. All of the modern issues we have today are not completely addressed by the Constitution, so our government, in it's "infinite wisdom" tells what they really mean.

Mmkay. Second article: a one page, not even one page, kind of a quickie on a metaphor that I saw a lot, but the articles were locked away so I couldn't read them. In the media, immigrants are most often metaphorically imaged as animals. Think about this phrase: "The truthis, employers hungering for really cheap labor hunt out the foreign workers." (UCLA Today, Faulty Discourse on 'illegal immigrants'). It may be unintentional, but these kinds of images and this type of language really plays a part in the bias of a dispute.

THIRD ARTICLE!! This article brought up the point of how we don't really have an illegal immigration problem. No, not at all. Our problem is... ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS. Who'da thunk it? That's right. And this article isn't just all opinion. It states fact and uses laws to back up it's point - specifically, that Republicans in 1980 and now hide the fact that they actually promote illegal employment. In 1986 Reagan's amnesty program, it basically told employers and non citizens that there would be "few penalties and many reqards to increasing the US labor pool with undcoumented immigrants." (Immigration: The Issue Republicans Are Using).

so, those are basic summaries of my 3 articles. :) ummmm.. I guess we'll be talking about it in about half an hour!!