I know I'm linking to Chris a lot today, but this bit from Karl Rove really struck me. Asked about the necessity of immigration, he answered that "I don't want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas." Really? It's one thing to argue for immigrant labor on grounds that you think society is best served by cheap tomatoes and low hotel rates, and foreign labor aids those goals But what Rove is doing here is deriding the dignity of that work. It's not that immigrants can do it cheaper than native workers, it's that native workers, or at least Rove's son, should be above doing it at all.
