As for the day laborers - God forbid that our own people might actually earn a living wage!

Yeah, like you would find an Anglo who would actually do that sort of work! Sometimes I see different places in the Bay Area and different poor people. I see Anglos and Blacks asking for a handout or trying to con one (not all Anglos and Blacks are con-men and beggars, but we are comparing within a socio-economic group here). Then I see poor Mexicans, willing to work.

Not a living wage? Then how do they survive and manage to send money back to their families in Mexico.

What you mean by a living wage is enough money to buy lots of crap.

And Franco was much more open to immigration, say, from fugitive Jews fleeing Hitler, as opposed to Roosevelt, who turned shiploads away back to Germany (when he wasn't building concentration camps himself at Tulelake and Manzanar and other places).

WWFFD?

Do you think that the Generalisimo was for open borders?

As for the day laborers - God forbid that our own people might actually earn a living wage!

Of course I approve of Roman Walls, because they kept the Picts and other assorted Barbarian filth out. And by "out" they meant, well, "out" not "well, officially out, but we all know that our economy will crumble if we don't let some Pict day laborers and farm workers in, so let's come up with some Byzantine system of keeping our economy rolling while making some pretense of ethnic purity."

"Walls on borders are shameful things."

Yes, much like those shameful cell membranes that prevent well-intentioned particles from traipsing in to your protoplasm in search of jobs.

Or that disgraceful gargantuan Ming relic over in China, or those positively reprehensible ruins of Roman fences.

The problem with the Berlin Wall was not that it was a wall, but that it was put up for purposes other than those of the Berliners.

On the bright side, however, at least we can agree that Bush is a complete ding-a-ling.