The implied racism in any conversation about “illegal immigrants” always makes my blood boil. Any Daily Mail reader worth their salt will happily blather on for hours about how “they’re taking our jobs” and “they’re not paying taxes”. It’s ill-informed nonsense and I don’t have the patience for it.
Orson Scott Card, noted SF author and rightwing thinker takes these lazy arguments and gives them the thorough reaming they so richly deserve. I’m thinking of memorising it. Or carrying a printout around in my back pocket.
EXCUSES AND HALF TRUTHS 