Exh migration leftyy
If I don’t sound as strongly pro migrant (even though I am Left wing on migration), its only because since I am generally against Capitalism I realize the negative effects Capitalism has on legal and illegal migrants.
For example I realize that mass illegal migration and overwhelming/endless legal migration (the type of migration where can barely afford to take care of our own people let alone overwhelming/endless migrants) is beneficial to the capitalist class and thus that makes me feel that mass illegal migration and overwhelming/endless legal migration is effectively a net negative in my eyes. Many migrants come in and take jobs away from citizens which increases unemployment
When migration that happens within a capitalist countries (like the US) sadly it can be seen as a modern day version of bondage (like in the Old South)
Back then, there was colonialist exploitation happening within a capitalist country via bondage due to similar conditions to today.
Today via mass illegal migration and overwhelming/endless legal migration, legal migrants and illegal migrants sadly end up working below minimum wage or barely minimum wage in a subsistence type existence (like construction work of migrants in some parts of the US for example) within a capitalist country not too much better or different than the type of dehumanizing capitalist worker exploitation that slaves were put through in the Old South.
A lesser but still relevant reason I don’t sound strongly pro migrant (even though I am Left wing on migration), is because I see the negative effect of migration in that migration is used to undercut wages and that migration can be detrimental to the entire working class (though we should gladly share what we make with foreigners specially if they’re in need) . The US needs to stop monopolizing our job market
Ideally, migration should be designed around the economic interests of the American people and especially Americans at the bottom of the labor market .
A study of the struggle waged by the American working class reveals that, in order to oppose their workers, the employers either bring in workers from abroad or else transfer manufacture to countries where there is a cheap labor force.
But the Left need not take my word for it. Just ask Karl Marx, whose position on immigration would get him banished from the modern Left. Although migration at today’s speed and scale would have been unthinkable in Marx’s time, he expressed a highly critical view of the effects of the migration that occurred in the nineteenth century. In a letter to two of his American fellow-travelers, Marx argued that the importation of low-paid Irish immigrants to England forced them into hostile competition with English workers. He saw it as part of a system of exploitation, which divided the working class and which represented an extension of the colonial system. He wrote this piece” Andrea Nagle A Left Case Against Open borders
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