Laurie VossThe truth about US immigration law is that the US economy relies on immigration, and making migrants legally powerless benefits employers, so nothing is done to crack down on employers and everything is done to leave migrants even more scared and powerless. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/magazine/economy-illegal-immigration.html
Remember Breonna Taylor@seldo The fact that all the punishment goes to the vulnerable workers and not to the employers who exploit them tells you everything.
Tom Levenson@seldo Also note: the US birthrate is below replacement (1.781/woman 15-44 in 2021). The US economy is built on assumptions of growth, including growth in the number of workers and consumers. If family size stays the same or shrinks further, that demographic growth will have to come from...
immigration.
@seldo There is no way to sustain the US economy or such basic desirables as care for seniors without immigration. Defining migrants as illegal shifts the power against workers, but does not alter the underlying dynamic. Which, is, of course, the point, the creation of a kind of hidden apartheid state in which migrants do not have full access to the wealth and ways of life they create and enable.
lupus_blackfur
rag. Gustavino BevilacquaToday migrants are the "Reserve Army of Labour".
Darwin Woodka@seldo the real question is why we can't have a decent immigration process, and thew answer is "Republicans".
rexi@seldo
the difference between this and colonial slave-labor was -- remind me again...
the difference between this and colonial slave-labor was -- remind me again...