[...] just like the issue of deportation, how the majority of these food workers are treated is linked to their ethnicity and their gender [...]

No, it was deleted because you cannot logically respond to the points I raised. I have already told you that I favor CIR and the Dream Act, so In am not anti-immigrant.

Actually, I am going to start my own blog. I am tired of people like me being thrown under the bus.

Using “illegal immigrants” is not accepted here. It is anti-migrant and just poor writing. Oh and your above comment will also be deleted. Do it again and we will just ban anything you have to say.

No Karen. If you want to disagree fine but when you resort to slurs, that is simply not tolerated here.

Comments that do not agree with posts here are not automatically deleted. What is automatically deleted are comments with hateful language.

I’m sure Karen’s blog would love to have you. Have fun and peace out.

No matter how noble and open minded one particular individual is, one cannot be entrusted with vigilance over the 1st amendment; that’s why constitutions and independent courts’ subsequent interpretation are integral components of a free society.

There was no hateful speech! You even deleted the comments so that nobody else could verify. No, you’re not Fidel or Hugo (that’s a compliment to you). A difference of opinion is not “hateful speech.” And I didn’t use “illegal” as a noun like you falsely claimed I did. If you have to lie rather than engage in debate, then it means you have little or no confidence in your position.

I said that I favor CIR and the Dream Act, but that I don’t think either will pass. In that vacuum, bills like SB1070 arise that put all Americans with brown skin and Spanish surnames at risk, not just immigrants.( I don’t know how that becomes “vandalism,” but whatever.)

I said that if the federal government won’t pass CIR, then they need to solve the problem one way or the other because it’s not fair to put everybody’s rights at risk just because these immigrants are not willing to organize and fight for freedom in ther own countries. Why should a US citizen who hasn’t done anything wrong be dragged into this and be subject to possible detainment?

I also said that this problem wasn’t going to be totally solved by CIR because there will always be a new groups of poor people who want to flee their home countries. The only way to REAL freedom, is to fix their own countries, and by that, I mean mostly Mexico. That country isn’t poor, but for some reason nobody ever criticizes the Mexican government or holds them accountable in any way.

Now say I am making shit up.

Well actually I would like to get away from this good vs. bad dichotomy. For example, getting back to the actual situation surrounding the original post, where would Maria Bolaños fit into that framework. She is a mother, part of a family who sought help in a moment of crisis and now she faces deportation. Is she bad because she dared live here undocumented? Because she let herself get into an abusive situation? Because she is not a professional?

I would like to move away from “goodness” as a criteria in terms of who “deserves” to stay in the U.S.