Loving the Hypocrisy

I have not seen anyone blog this NYT article yet, but it caught my eye:

As the United States runs short of nurses, senators are looking abroad. A little-noticed provision in their immigration bill would throw open the gate to nurses and, some fear, drain them from the world's developing countries.

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Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, who sponsored the proposal, said it was needed to help the United States cope with a growing nursing shortage.

He said he doubted the measure would greatly increase the small number of African nurses coming to the United States, but acknowledged that it could have an impact on the Philippines and India, which are already sending thousands of nurses to the United States a year.

I find it interesting that conservative Republicans are railing against "illegal immigration" but are totally fine with making certain "illegal immigration" perfectly legal.

If Republicans are angry about the economics of immigration they are hypocrites. If you are worried about globalization, which puts Americans out of jobs because there are more people willing to work the same job for a lower price, then why implement a measure that makes it easier for just that to happen? It is not like there are not enough people in this country who are qualified to be nurses or are not willing to take the job. This is a move to secure lower-wage labor.

If Republicans are angry about the legality of immigration they are hypocrites. This brings me back to the point that I made in brief above, which is the notion that "illegal" immigrants need to be sent back or punished simple because they entered the country "illegally" is baseless - the definition of an immigrant as legal/illegal is one that is designated by the law, but has no real meaning past a nominal one. Since this is the case, all that needs to happen is for the law to change, and all of a sudden "illegal" immigrants become perfectly "legal." This is what Republicans are doing. Changing the law to suit their own needs, and all of a sudden the immigrants are untouchable because they are "legal."

What Republicans are really angry about - I should first note that not all Republicans see eye to eye on this; the corporatists would rather have cheap, immigrant labor, so when I refer to Republicans above I am referring to the loud, anti-immigrant base and members of Congress - is that non-white skinned people are coming into the country and the demographics and cultural makeup of their communities is changing. Just see John Gibson's comments for reference. This immigration controversy is nothing more than the latest form in which racism is raising its ugly head. They can dress it up any way they like, but publicly advocating shooting people who come into the country illegally and having white supremacist groups at the forefront of these minutemen gives them away.

Republicans who publicly bash illegal immigration but at the same time support measures like the one quoted above are nothing more than depraved hypocrites. If their base wants meat, they should offer up themselves.