Illegal or Undocumented: It Still Spells "Slavery"

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A discussion about immigration sometimes ends in an argument over terminology and definitions. Liberals want to use the term ''undocumented workers'' to talk about what conservatives know to be simply illegal immigrants. Perhaps we might end our war of words and agree on a new term that better describes what is happening in America because of the huge influx of immigrants. I propose we go back and use the perfectly good word ''slave.'' Illegal immigrants are in fact the slaves of 21st Century America.

Many employers want illegal immigrants or undocumented workers for the very fact that they are illegal or undocumented. It is their illegal or undocumented status that makes them fit to be slaves...

U.S. society will face a crisis equal to another civil war if it does not deal now with the problem of illegal immigration. Shortsighted businessmen may turn a profit for their companies by employing the new slaves, but in the long term both these businessmen and their companies will suffer. Furthermore, the country itself will be caught in the throes of an upheaval tomorrow that is preventable today. We must emancipate the new slaves as we did the old ones.

The best way to this emancipation is by sending illegal workers back to where they came from and by enforcing our immigration laws. To free the slaves of the 21st Century, you must return them and then prevent employers from corralling new ones. A policy that emphasizes the 3 Ds of homeland security, will do just that: Detect, Detain, and Deport.

Deporting illegal immigrants may seem to lack compassion, but is slavery more compassionate? Compassion for our own citizens dictates also that we stop illegal immigration and then turn our attention to all forms of immigration. Those who seek justice and human rights for illegal immigrants should also seek the same for present and future...

I wouldn't go so far as saying that all illegal immigrants are "slaves," although thousands are. And, the rationlizations made for the continuation of slavery ("The South's economy will collapse!") are very similar to the decades-old plaintive wails of, say, California farmers.

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Some have spoken of free trade in people, as if this would be a kind of freedom. Yet it turns out to mean slave trade, in many cases, as the threats against these peones, and against their relatives in the third world, are used to enforce the debt for the passage money which they borrowed from the slavers.