[Medusa]

It always grosses me out a little (ok, a lot) to hear a Queer person look to illegal immigrants (which almost always seems to be about "those damn Mexicans") as the source of "what they see wrong" with the employment system in this country.

I guess I expect more from us? Or I at least assume Queers will think twice before helping to marginalize another group of people since, well yanno...we have been marginalized so often ourselves, especially when it's due to ignorance, intolerance, or some form of 'ism or 'phobia.

I am getting to where I don't even like the term "illegal immigrant". Human beings are not "illegal". It seems unfair and problematic to me to attach what I perceive to be a negative connotation (the word "illegal") to an Immigrant who may not have the right political pull, thousands of dollars, or years worth of patience for our system to get it's head out of it's giant, smelly, racist, eurocentric ass so that they, too, can live the American dream.

Especially since 90% of the people in this country who point to "The Mexicans" as the "problem" won't do the research on where they, themselves, came from. I suspect a biggo boat full of Irish, Romany, Dutch, or German settlers might be somewhere in their midst.