tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post4297388530528456923..comments2024-03-27T19:00:02.499-04:00Comments on UNDERNEWS: Trump out of sync with Americans on immigrationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-42838834840849343732018-01-13T10:35:46.065-05:002018-01-13T10:35:46.065-05:00That's the claim that's made, but if you l...That's the claim that's made, but if you look more closely it's a myth. <br /><br />In Latin America, the land has been consumed <i>for centuries</i> by a few very wealthy families who have arrogated gigantic rancheros to themselves, leaving little for the peasantry. If the peasants go out into the jungle and clear some land, pretty soon there's enough cleared out that the nearest Don Psicópata can take it from them, rinse and repeat. <br /><br />The US simply doesn't interfere in the "internal governance" of those countries, and that's sufficient because the peasants either don't organise at all or have no way even to defend themselves, never mind take the fight to the enemy, if they do organise.<br /><br />The myth that we, here, have no right to complain because it's somehow our fault is very serviceable to the owner class in the US, however.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-88462883189975789082018-01-12T11:25:09.229-05:002018-01-12T11:25:09.229-05:006:39
You are laying the blame at the wrong door. ...6:39<br /><br />You are laying the blame at the wrong door. There would not be so many people looking to immigrate if the US had chosen better and more humane foreign policies toward the rest of the world over the past 200+ years. How many immigrants would stay in their country of origin, if not for US meddling in foreign governments, and the social and economic havoc such meddling causes. Seen that way, immigrants are the chickens of bad foreign policy coming home to roost.<br /><br />Immigrants are also vibrant populations that bring benefits such as diversity, new skills, new perspectives, and prosperity to the US, but you were focusing on the negatives, so I framed it that way for you.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-49978809281681382262018-01-11T06:39:56.629-05:002018-01-11T06:39:56.629-05:00And there we see the effect of the relentless prop...And there we see the effect of the relentless propaganda in favor of expanding the pool of desperate workers. The propagandists naturally don't <i>frame</i> it as increasing the number of people competing for each job, they frame it in humanitarian terms. But the net effect is a reduction in the ability of the citizen working class to get by.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com