The immigration debate

The Las Vegas Sun has an interesting article regarding illegal immigration. The author seems to be warning republicans about exploiting anger towards immigrants, not because racism is wrong but because it might cost them money.

And American business leaders – especially in agriculture and in two industries crucial to Las Vegas, construction and hospitality – should also be concerned, as it looks more and more likely that the nominee of their preferred party will have committed himself to policies that will cut off the flow of low-cost undocumented workers they’ve relied on to pick their fruit, build their homes and clean their hotel rooms.

In fact he does not seem to see anything wrong with exploiting undocumented workers, and does not seem to see anything wrong with exploiting the anger towards these workers, accept for the fact that it might cost business owners money. Welcome to the modern republican party where the only problem with pandering to hatred is that it might cost you money.

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