The myth of cheap fruit (nullus)

Branching off from this morning's post about how racist black people are attempting to deny poor unfortunate hispanics their god-given right to disregard any laws they find inconvenient, I thought it would be instructive to take a look at this myth of the $6 orange these assholes like to bring up.

It goes a little something like this (hit it): If Mexicans aren't allowed to retake what's left of the United States, there won't be anyone to pick the oranges. The price of said oranges will then rise to $6 per and Americans will all starve to death. Hence, illegal immigrants are actually doing us all a favor. For shizzle.

Here's something for you d-bags to consider: If this was really the case, then how come oranges didn't cost $6 per back before La Reconquista, when you actually had to pay people to pick them? Could it be that oranges cost roughly the same now as they did then, and that the only difference now is that some TI is stuffing even more money down his pockets while the rest of us suffer?

Interestingly enough, the argument you hear proponents of illegal immigration using so often - that these people are starving to death and hence willing to work for less - is the exact same argument that multi-national corporations use to build sweatshops in places like Indonesia. It's not especially different from the argument Wal-Mart uses to pay rednecks $6 an hour.

Could it be that guilty white liberal-types, in their quest to appear more liberal than thou, have actually become rather conservative?

If you support illegal immigration into the United States, you support the systematic transfer of wealth from poor, tax-paying American citizens into the hands of the tall Israelis who run this country's industries. Silly identity politics aside, there's nothing particularly progressive about that.