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Immigration at its finest
By Kate | December 4, 2007
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The Latino Comedy Project has tons of extra-funny videos on their site. This is a parody of the movie 300. No matter what side of the immigration debate, or border, you stand on… this is hilarious.
Tagged with: hilarious_videos • immigration_debate • latino_comedy_project • Mexico • Political Issues
December 5th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
You may have gotten feedback or heard this already, but the vid link doesn’t work…
I think the first time I tried it it said ‘no longer available’ and then it just did one of those infinite circles…
December 5th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Strange that it didn’t work. It works on my work computer & I had a coworker give it a try on hers. It also goes. I am not too technologically inclined, so I have no clue why it may not on other computers. Perhaps you need to download the right plugin. My computer says that to me a lot.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Kate,
Sorry to trouble you, I either figured this out or it was never a problem, probly the latter.
Watching it, though, I do get the sense that the video itself, or its makers, whichever, is not neutral but instead comes down on one side of the immigration. And I agree with its implications, so I guess it may be the right side, if I am right, which who knows really.
And while my guess is no one really wants to know my interpretation of this piece because it is better having it just be funny, but because my English major at BYU compels me to make use of my text interpretation skills or I will need to admit I wasted four years, here goes:
(I don’t have strong feelings about the immigration debate one way or the other but basically I agree with liberals on this one that the anti-immigration folks at least have their facts wrong.) And because I feel that wrongness of fact is much less serious an error than wrongness of morals or intentions, wrongness of facts is a way I am eager to have my general wrongness pointed out to me. I was corrected on this myself: while I used to be anti-immigration like some other conservatives I no longer think there is any reason to agree with them, because of global demography and its startling realities that you don’t hear every day from every source.
The wrongness of the anti-immigration side is that Mexico’s birthrate will go negative soon just like the US birthrate has recently and the European birthrate did a while ago, and so within 10 years there will be some other solution to have our labor vacuum (the fact that we have more jobs, at least bad ones, than bodies to fill them) suck immigrants from over the border to fill the jobs. Who knows what it will suck instead, and to me it doesn’t actually suck at all, it is a good thing. It probably will only suck for employers or those who want to employ others’ labor cheaply, which I have no chance of becoming any time soon.
So I feel that this video rightly pokes fun at the fact that the anti-immigration fears (people will conquer the US with brooms and pregnant bellies) are overblown. Possibly these fears are not true at all but demography suggests that at least they are overblown. Mexico is behind the Western countries in the ‘birth dearth’ but it is following the same trajectory, and it will flatten out at around the same level. So no worries, Pat (Buchannan).