OMG Controversy

[insaneamoeba]

Okay... so I'll put my two cents in too mostly because I dunno, I just feel the need to

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[autodidacticphd]

do you really want a response, or are you just venting?

[insaneamoeba]

Responses are fine- though this really did began as a rant when I got tired of one too many let's just kill them all remarks.

[autodidacticphd]

i already wrote out a long post and then my computer died.

let me just say that i know plenty of people that would love to stay here, have been denied, and have accepted it and gone home. i see only one face on this issue and it makes things a lot harder to sympathize with.

[knastymike]

Construction, highway and otherwise, in Austin would collapse without the labor provided by illegal immigrants, and everyone in power here knows it.

[spinner391]

Austin would collapse without the labor provided by illegal immigrants

And that would be a bad thing? how?

[weasel_1313]

"You just need to build a big fence. Then make wire cutters and shovels illegal in Mexico"

[knastymike]

You know we'd use illegal immigrants to build the fence, too.

[weasel_1313]

well played