{"id":1229,"date":"2007-12-18T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T02:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2007-12-18T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T02:50:11","slug":"the-arguments-for-illegal-immigration-are-not-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/the-arguments-for-illegal-immigration-are-not-new\/","title":{"rendered":"The arguments for illegal immigration are not new&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThe conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Environmentalist Edward Abbey, 1988, on illegal immigration. <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an essay entitled &#8221;Immigration and Liberal Taboos&#8221; he builds a case for sealing our border with Mexico. The core of his argument is that &#8221;ever-continuing industrial and population growth is not the true road to human happiness, that simple gross quantitative increase of this kind creates only more pain, dislocation, confusion, and misery. . . . Especially when these uninvited millions bring with them an alien mode of life which &#8211; let us be honest about this &#8211; is not appealing to the majority of Americans.&#8221; Why does the United States still allow more immigration &#8211; legal and illegal &#8211; than all other nations combined? Because, says Mr. Abbey, &#8221;the conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Times! <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DB113EF93BA15751C0A96E948260&#038;n=Top\/Reference\/Times%20Topics\/People\/A\/Abbey,%20Edward\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.&#8221; Environmentalist Edward Abbey, 1988, on illegal immigration. In an essay entitled &#8221;Immigration and Liberal Taboos&#8221; he builds a case for sealing our border with Mexico. The core of his argument is that &#8221;ever-continuing industrial and population growth is not the true road to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}