15 reasons why every working person should champion immigrant rights

Too many fallacies and incorrect assumptions to take this article seriously.

1) An overwhelming majority of U.S. citizens will never lose their jobs to "illegal aliens."

So? This does not change the fact that entitlement programs are burdened by illegal immigration. Not to mention other social issues.

They're all victims of unchecked corporate greed.

So this is somehow justification for illegal migration? Do you think this would change if we allowed any and all migrants into the US? No, it would not.

It's the unfair status endured by our own family members and friends working under such systemic inequity that spreads and perpetuates the bulk of our nation's economic injustice.

What? Exactly how does a "status" spread economic injustice? The above quote sounds all fine and good until you actually stop and think.

5) Deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants would constitute history's most massive ethnic cleansing,...

How absurd. Equating genocidal crimes with deportation of people illegally in the country. The quote incorrectly assumes that immigration enforcement is a "race based" discriminatory issue. Which it is not. Hitlerism? Are you kidding me? Excessive liberal pandering at its best. And I'm a liberal.

6) The only thing that kept our European forebears from being undocumented immigrants themselves was the fact that the Atlantic Ocean is too wide to swim.

Comparing immigration in the 15th century and the 21st century to justify illegal behavior? Logic fail.

It's obscene to equate crossing an imaginary line on the earth's face to obtain food for hungry families...

Parroting the false assertion that illegal immigration is about starvation. Take reproductive responsibility and there won't be so many mouths to feed.

9) Many of those bearing the brunt of current anti-immigrant animus had family roots in what's now U.S. soil well before this country ever became singularly associated with "America."

Like the Israel\Palestine situation. Where your dead ancestors lived is not justification for ownership claims. Not to mention citizenship claims.

11) The cost of immigrants to taxpayers is minuscule compared to huge loopholes, subsidies, and outright giveaways to wealthy individuals and already profitable companies enjoying lavish corporate welfare.

Another logic fail. The rich are screwing the country on a larger scale so lets give the illegals a pass?

...in vigilante repression against fearful souls braving our blazing southwestern sun to obtain the basic means of survival.

See the above point @ the starvation myth. Additionally, enforcing the rule of law and oppression are not the same thing. More pandering...

13) We need to curb narrow selfishness and social irresponsibility.

And illegal immigration is selfless? Not to mention that the daily life of an illegal alien is daily social irresponsibility. Talk about calling the kettle black.

Crucially, we must appreciate that if full-blown fascism ever triumphs in America,...

The stuff I smoke isn't even powerful enough to get me to believe the above absurdity.

If the seeded article makes you think, then great. Just don't be fooled by the absurd points the author makes.