hex on Nostr: You can basically point at almost any policy and find the same thing. Immigration? ...
You can basically point at almost any policy and find the same thing.
Immigration? Yeah, abolition of chattel destabilized agriculture in the US. Immediately sharecropping, prison slavery, and debt slavery filled the gap. Debt slavery was largely ended in the lead up to WWII because it was seen as a propaganda liability during the war. Chain gangs used to be rented to farmers but that lost favor after a few high profile instance of white prisoners being murdered by overseers. Immigrant labor has been the primary solution since then.
If immigration is illegal, then immigrants can be kept in defacto slavery under threat of being returned to their place of origin (which can be the same as the threat of death). So the US food system is a slave system that's massively subsidized by border patrol.
Anti-imigration rhetoric increases the pressure to maintain this slavery, breaks down working class solidarity between different levels of exploited people, and distracts exploited people from their own exploitation.
Scratch #uspol anywhere and you'll find slavery or genocide.
Immigration? Yeah, abolition of chattel destabilized agriculture in the US. Immediately sharecropping, prison slavery, and debt slavery filled the gap. Debt slavery was largely ended in the lead up to WWII because it was seen as a propaganda liability during the war. Chain gangs used to be rented to farmers but that lost favor after a few high profile instance of white prisoners being murdered by overseers. Immigrant labor has been the primary solution since then.
If immigration is illegal, then immigrants can be kept in defacto slavery under threat of being returned to their place of origin (which can be the same as the threat of death). So the US food system is a slave system that's massively subsidized by border patrol.
Anti-imigration rhetoric increases the pressure to maintain this slavery, breaks down working class solidarity between different levels of exploited people, and distracts exploited people from their own exploitation.
Scratch #uspol anywhere and you'll find slavery or genocide.