(01-20-2012, 11:20 AM)Jester Wrote: Just like so many stupid "wars" the US is fighting, the war against "illegals" is inhumane and destructive.I liked the words of one of the anti-slavery prosecutors... Which is a larger crime, the 16 year old selling dope, or the selling of a 16 year old?
But, really, yes the third world is all around us. Whenever anyone is so disenfranchised as to make laws inaccessible. This is excacerbated for foreigners by language barriers, discrimination and impoverishment. But, take any one of us, or our children to another land and you'd have the same situation.
We tolerate it because it lets us get cheap stuff. The availability of illegal jobs makes human trafficing and exploitation inevitable.