It’s a Small, Small World
Really, you could just pick this post up wholesale, change the word ‘Bush’ to read ‘Balkenende’, ‘Verdonk’ or ‘Blair’, alter the word ‘Republican’ to ‘VVD’ or ‘New Labour’ and it would make equally perfect sense.
Bottle Of Blog definitely gets that immigration is is a class and economic issue, and that the race element is just thrown to muddy the waters of discussion and to rouse a bigoted political base:
Republicans have a huge problem. They’ve had it for years. But your “liberal” media absolutely refuses to explain it to you, The People. Republican politicians get their jobs from the racism and xenophobia, and paranoia the Gee Oh Pee actively creates when talking about all the darkies who are flooding across our borders, taking our jobs, fucking our pure white, Christian daughters, and sucking up our tax dollars without contributing a single thing!
What’s the Republican problem with this? The Republican problem is that Republicans are hiring these people–eleven million of them. And they’d like to hire more. Why would they like to hire more? So they can fire your Constitutionally protected, OSHA pampered, union organizing, vacation mongering, minimum wage insisting ass.
That’s the ugly hilarity of Republicans proposing an immigration bill. It’s that simple. These are people who make careers out of encouraging you to hate wetbacks for stealing your jobs, when what they’d really like to do is legislate you out of your jobs. These are people who get their jobs from scaring the bejesus out of you about open borders, when what they really want to do is pave a giant highway across the border. And these are people who earn a living by whipping up your ugliest emotions at people who are getting something on your dime, when really, you’re getting something on their dime–cheap food, cheap service, cheap whatever.
And the cost is spread out to all of us.
Who’s really fucking the American People?
The mostly Republican employers who hire these people.
Eleven million people wouldn’t risk rape, robbery and death crossing the border if there weren’t a ton of jobs just waiting for them in America. Or if that fact weren’t well, well known in their home countries. These companies, these industries–meat packing, agriculture, food service, Walmart–they rely on cheap, illegal labor to “pass” their savings on to you.
And keep their shareholders happy and their management ridiculously wealthy.
Immigration is not a US issue, it’s a worldwide issue, and will continue to be so as capitalism becomes increasingly global. What the boss class want is no borders for their money, but fortified national enclaves for themselves, with only as many poor people around as it takes to staff their factories, do their laundry and cleaning, and look after their children at the cheapest possible financial and social cost. This is true whatever country you look at, from the US to Singapore.
You can’t close down a factory or industry in one country because it’s economically convenient, move it to another where the wages bill is cheaper and then, expect the people who worked there to stay put and let their families starve, just so you aren’t inconvenienced by annoying, poor brown people agitating for a decent living wage. Well you can, but be prepared for people to move where the work is. leghally or illegally. It’s a matter of survival.
I wonder how many American and British expats here in the Netherlands would consider themselves to be immigrants. Not many, I shouldn’t think – they’re expats, they have nothing in common with those illegals – they know who immigrants are and immigrants are coloured, they’re not white like them.
They should think again. Illegal immigrants are just like them. They came here to work. That old Thatcherite stalwart, Norman Tebbit, used to say that if you were unemployed, you should get on your bike and go where the work is, and that’s all that immigrants, legal or not, are doing. There’s a lot more common ground between them than most overprivileged corporate expats would be prepared to admit. – they’re both there for the money – the only difference is that one group has the right paperwork and one doesn’t .
Divide and rule has always been the prime tactic of capitalists against workers, and this immigration hooha is but a prime example. Natives and legal immigrants may come to believe they are part of an elite, thinking themselves secure in their positions, but in truth, like the rest of us they’re only one or two paychecks from disaster themselves. From the humblest cleaner to the highest executive we’re employees – we don’t own the source of our labour, and our work only continues as long as the whim of the employer does. Anyone could wake up tomorrow and be fired or made redundant and have little recourse against it, or resources to fall back on, It’ll then be a case of staying put or going elsewhere – but where?
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