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We don't have Illegal Immigration, we have illegal employment!

Why Mexicans Jump the Fence...

If you follow this blog I repeat this post, about how the government in Mexico suppresses labor unions as the main reason for illegal immigration into this country. We protect our labor leaders... of course they make more money here.

They've done it again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/world/americas/01mexico.html?_r=1

The union leader, Margarito Montes Parra, 56, had built up a powerful organization spanning several states to demand land rights and press for government support of peasants. The group, the Worker, Peasant and Popular General Union, is based in the southern state of Oaxaca, and a leader there said Mr. Montes’s killing was linked to his work.

Hat Tip to Jonathon Tasini, Working Life blogger and candidate for Senate.

Trumka on PBS NewsHour

	Labor's 'Bulldog' Trumka Challenged by Dwindling Ranks, Public Perception
	As AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka works to protect organized labor from the excesses of big business, he faces dwindling ranks, splits among union groups, and diminished public support. Paul Solman reports (link).

Cyberhillbilly blames Kentuckians

culture (of eastern Kentucky) or the excesses of the welfare state. Much of the poverty in the region is generational and affects hundreds of families whose only experience with coal is its use in the stoves and stokers.

I would have figured it's goal would have been more to explain things from a justifiable right social culture of eastern Kentucky point of view... a "land that has given so many of it's son's and daughters to USA in WARS" point of view... that I'm mad at Cyberhillbilly for not being loyal to the state.