penda | Illegal Immigration - Slavery by a Different Name

We're discussing INS and undocumented aliens in Employment law right now. I'll be honest, the INS thing infuriates me. You have all these jackasses screaming to lock down the borders and keep aliens out. They aren't seeing the big picture. This country depends on immigrants. Without them a large sector of our society would disappear and the US would crumble. Not to mention that US society was founded by immigrants. And, of course, there is the primary issue that nations are largely meaningless. If you're born a few miles south of the US border, what makes you deserve a life of poverty instead of the life of affluence that comes with being born a few miles to the north?

People who oppose openning the borders won't come out and admit it, but they think they're better than foreigners. They think that being part of the only remaining superpower is their birthright. It is all part of that "entitlement" sickness that infects America. You don't deserve anything based on your birth. Hell, the guy who risks his life (dealing with insane "minutemen" shooting at him, crawling over barbed wire, and running from the dogs and cops chasing him) all to get into this country and give his family a better chance at life deserves a hell of a lot more than you. What have you done? Seriously, what? Let me guess, you squeezed out of your mom in a politically sacred piece of land and received the stamp of "american." Big deal.

And the attitude of manifest destiny fits right in with the ruling classes objectives. They need undocumented workers. They need 3rd world nations to produce their sweatshop goods (so they can afford to keep their borders closed and keep the wealth of the rest of the world trapped in the US), and they need undocumented workers to provide cheap agricultural and manual labor pools. They WANT them here. However, they don't want them to have any power because then they might ascend the social strata and threaten their dynasties. Or even worse they might look to themselves and realize, much like the muslims in the French ghettos have come to realize, that they have real power and can change things.

So what do they do? They keep them illegal. They keep them living in constant fear of losing everything to the Storm Soldier-esque INS forces. They keep them disenfranchized and living in ghettos, many never learning english or learning to read. They keep them from being part of American society in any way other than as work-horses. Then they engage in a social war and keep the rest of US society hating them, to keep people from feeling any sympathy for them or from helping them. They put forth this subconscious viewpoint that they're less than human, and subtly enforce and encourage racism. They tell the working class that it isn't the ruling class that keeps american families struggling to put food on the table, they tell them that it is the fault of those damn illegal aliens taking their jobs (all while they hire them cheaply and also outsource their production facilities).

It's an illusion that most people seem to buy into. But the reality is that you aren't entitled to a damn thing, nations are meaningless since we're all human, and by believing their smoke-screen you're enabling the rich to keep doing exactly what they've been doing for centuries: Exploiting everything and everyone.

Besides, the borders dont' stop ANYONE. If you want in, you can get in. You know they don't work. Cops know they don't work. Politicians know they don't work. Why not open the borders and invite these people to become part of the system? The only reason is for fear of giving people the power to change things and shake the system up.