Undocumented Immigrants Are Being Used in Oil Clean-Up Because “They’re Very Absorbent”

I wonder if Michael Cannon at Cato Institute will lose any speaking engagements or be asked to resign from his job for saying this:

Michael Cannon, a health policy expert for Cato, the libertarian think tank founded by Charles Koch of the oil conglomerate Koch Industries, took to Twitter today to trade jokes about the oil spill. Responding to a tragic story about a New Orleans area sheriff asking federal authorities to investigate reports that undocumented workers are involved in the oil spill clean up, Cannon tweeted that undocumented workers “are very absorbent.” View a screen shot below:

Nah. I wouldn’t think so. No one’s going to get that bent out of shape because someone dehumanizes undocumented immigrants. Why would any of the people who work with Cannon worry about their professional reputation being sullied by continuing to associate with a scholar at a famous think tank who compares undocumented immigrants to absorbent material good for cleaning up oil spills? Most people are not going to find radically anti-immigrant expressions to be all that offensive.