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Beck again equates illegal immigration with slavery

July 29, 2010 11:07 am ET

From the July 29 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

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Previously:

Beck repeats claim that "illegal immigration is modern-day slavery"

After ranting about how "illegal immigration is modern-day slavery," Beck compares himself to Ben Franklin

Beck adds to his long, long list of things that constitute slavery: Debt is "a path to slavery"

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    • Author by IRONY 101 (July 29, 2010 11:11 am ET)
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      Glenn, it sounds to me like the solution is simply to unionize illegal immigrants... ;>)
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      • Author by timesthree (July 29, 2010 11:22 am ET)
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        The head of the United Farm Workers, the union organized by Cesar Chavez, was on the Colbert Report a few weeks ago. Traditionally, after the migrant farm workers finish with the harvest in California, they pick the winter season lettuce in Arizona. However, this year, the workers may be to intimidated by the AZ law to travel there. Maybe they can get some teabaggers to harvest lettuce. If not, look for shortages and higher prices.
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (July 29, 2010 11:29 am ET)
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          I can live without lettuce. Can Arizona take the economic hit...?
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        • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 29, 2010 11:43 am ET)
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          Now it is the beef,pork,chicken packing houses,the plants making carpet......These used to be good paying union jobs........People need to follor the words of FDR from the inside,on top......"If I were a working man,I would join a labor union"----FDR.....The begining of the great middle class the republicans have destroyed by tricking and fooling people to believe they are Dixicrats...Dixiecrats were union,and never witheld their support of unions.
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        • Author by raddave43 (July 29, 2010 11:53 am ET)
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          Maybe they can get some teabaggers to harvest lettuce. If not, look for shortages and higher prices.

          Only if they can get their electric scooters into the fields.
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      • Author by blk-in-alabam (July 29, 2010 11:34 am ET)
           
        That is exactly what is going to happen.
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    • Author by Good Creon (July 29, 2010 11:17 am ET)
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      So... what exactly is he comparing to slavery hear? It kind of sounds like he's saying that the immigrants trying to find work are being treated like slaves, which, while he makes the argument kind of tactlessly, I could see his point. But this is assuming I understood whatever point Becky Boy was trying to make.
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      • Author by Porkeater (July 29, 2010 11:35 am ET)
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        I suspect you're giving him too much credit, Good Creon: Beck is merely entertaining us with another in his many versions of "Four legs good! Two legs bad!"

        others include:
        nazi/communist - progressive!
        democrat - bad guy in a movie!
        The President - a racist ... and a communist ... and hates Amurka!
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      • Author by FDR_democrat (July 29, 2010 1:44 pm ET)
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        I agree - there's a valid point here, but I'm not sure it's the one Beck's trying to make. If he's saying that undocumented workers are routinely exploited, mistreated, and taken unfair advantage of because they don't receive the full benefit of worker-protection laws, then I agree. Then comes the part where Beck and I differ - I think his solution is to kick those workers out of the country, for their own good. My solution would involve finding some way to extend the protections of the law to these workers.
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    • Author by David2012 (July 29, 2010 12:08 pm ET)
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      No Glenn, the Civil War established the United States as a nation, rather than as a confederacy.

      The war was about slavery, all right, but the Constitutional result was the 14th Amendment (along with the 13th and the 15th). Arizona's law should not stand. Whether it will or not is debatable only because of the judicially activist, result-oriented, political, conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
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    • Author by rikntx (July 29, 2010 12:12 pm ET)
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      Sigh...illegal immigration is slavery. So the Crazy Man is siding with illegals?
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    • Author by swayjay (July 29, 2010 12:13 pm ET)
         
      So...on one hand they want no immigration reform and want to force illegals out of the country (since all they do is steal and bring in drugs)....then on the other hand, they feel sad for the immigrants that corporations are treating them like "slaves" and not providing them any healthcare options.

      Mixed messages, much?
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