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I think we really need to examine and address the reasons underlying the flood of Mexican immigrants before we can espouse a blanket deportation policy under the "rule of law." We don't have, for example, a flood of Canadians pouring into the northern states.
Part of my dissertation focuses on the use of law by a dominant social group to maintain social inequality--or, if you prefer, to secure the political and economic (limited resources) benefits for itself. I don't believe that to be a correct application of the law and it ultimately undermines our rational-legal social structure. I brought some of that out when I made the claim that our immigration policies run counter to the two claims that we live and operate within a free market economy and a representative government.
Such internal contradictions are what Marx argued would be the downfall of capitalism because the workers would eventually recognize their exploitation due to logical inconsistencies. You don't have to agree with Marx to see that it behooves us to examine whether laborers do believe this is occurring and what the ramifications of such beliefs, if held, could be.
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