A Vietnam Veteran (Democrat) Says Sonia Sotomayor Will Advocate For More Special Privileges For Illegal Aliens; etc.
From: Paul (e-mail him)
Re: Henry McCulloch’s Column: Sonia Sotomayor’s Double Standards
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s primary focus, once she is appointed to the court, will be continued advocacy of more special privileges for illegal aliens, a tragedy for working Americans.
As an example, let me tell you about what has happened to the meat packing industry as a result of illegal immigration. I worked at an Oscar Mayer plant when I returned from Vietnam and the wages I earned there helped to pay for my B.S. degree in economics at the University of Wisconsin.
My sister and brother-in-law worked at Oscar Mayer for many years. My brother- in-law was also a union steward at the plant, deeply involved in union politics.
Back in the 1970s, the Oscar Mayer plant employed several thousand people on all three shifts, many of whom were black Americans. In fact, I worked with and became friends with several University of Wisconsin football players who went to the NFL but never made it past their team’s final cut of the season.
The Oscar Mayer plant provided jobs that paid well. The work was hard, but a person could earn a comfortable middle-class income working at the plant.
This is no longer the case. What remains of the plant is now almost exclusively staffed with immigrants from Mexico and Central America who will work for a fraction of what American citizens were being paid, and who are also afraid to stand up for their rights when fair labor or safety standards are violated.
What has happened to Oscar Mayer is common across the country. Was the Civil Rights revolution of the 1960s fought so that the advances for black Americans that were made could be undercut by corporate and political pandering to the illegal alien lobby?
Working class Americans like my old Oscar Mayer colleagues and myself suffer the most from illegal immigration. American citizens, both black and white, should receive priority over non-citizens in employment, education and all the other avenues that lead to success.
In closing I should point out that I am not a right-wing xenophobe. My Democratic family has strong union ties. My father was butcher and also a union steward who eventually became a union business agent.
Although I have earned a degree in economics with graduate credits and now work for an insurance company, I still have my union card with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of the AFL-CIO and continue to follow union politics closely.
Paul’s previous letter about worthless Republican presidential candidates is here.
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A Vietnam Veteran (Democrat) Says Sonia Sotomayor Will Advocate For More Special Privileges For Illegal Aliens; etc.
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We need to document Oscar Mayer’s use of illegal aliens and organize a boycott of the company. Given the current mood among middle and working class white Americans, this is a very practical course of action.
As Saul Alinsky said, pick the target, freeze it, isolate it, and polarize it. Don’t just attack an impersonal company. Identify the chief decision makers at Oscar Mayer and make them highly visible. with an internet campaign and support from highly visible conservative figures.
We need to give our people a specific, personal target to go after. The big shots at Oscar Mayer look like good candidates.