May 22, 2006 9:19AM

The Minutemen: Modern‐Day Abolitionists?

By Radley Balko

Astonishing quote from Wisconsin Rep. James Sensenbrenner on Face the Nation yesterday:

…we shouldn’t be very sympathetic to employers who are hiring large numbers of illegal immigrants and paying them very low wages and exploiting them. Those folks are the 21st‐century slave masters, and what they’re doing is just as immoral as what the 19th‐century slave masters did that we had to fight a civil war to get rid of.

Words fail.

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