Immigration and wage slavery

[toddaa]

Something tells me that the Hispanic community is just now discovering how powerful it is. And it's about time. I have a suspicion that the U.S. is about to be reintroduced to the general strike and it's going to be our Hispanic friends teach us the power of this formerly quaint socialist practice of a general work stoppage.

Picture this:

No restaurant workers
No custodial workers
No hotel workers
No farm workers
No factory workers
No delivery service workers
The list goes on and on

The dirty little lie of immigration reform is that corporations have slashed wages and benefits so low that only immigrant workers with illegal citizenship status can work the jobs without legal repercussions. And now those workers are awakening to the fact that naked capitalism has turned them into serfs and they are getting pissed. NAFTA fucked with their homeland so the came here, but we spit in their face and give them menial jobs with shit wages. Then turn around and call them criminals after growing rich off their labor. We deserve what we are about to get.

"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt." - Mikhail Bakunin

[RethugAssKicker]

1. Well worded!.... The absolute BS

they are attempting to pull off is sickening.

[shamrock]

2. come on now.

the Hispanics are certainly NOT the only people in this country who do the menial jobs. It's fine with me if you want to sympathize with them, but don't minimize the rest of the people here in the process. I have read lots of posts making it sound like the people here feel they are above menial jobs, and that's just not so. There are plenty of hard-working poorly paid people in this country besides Hispanics.

[jety2k]

3. Yep...

There are also Hispanic citizens here legally that have worked their way up to a decent wage only to be replaced by cheap illegals. How do you suppose they feel about the situation?

[newyawker99]

6. Hi jety2k!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[951-Riverside]

4. Picture this

Americans did these jobs way before some fat white fuck decided he could make a quick buck by hiring people who would settle for below mininum wages and shitty working conditions.

Whats next you're going to make me picture "No Phone Techincal Support"?

*sigh*

[SoCalDem]

5. "Circular Migration".. another name for Slave Rental

SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Mon Mar-27-06 02:46 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=767481&mesg_id=767481

"Circular Migration".. another name for Slave Rental


Cornyn and his pals are just plain nuts if they think this will "work"..

The odd thing is that these are the folks who always tout "let the markets decide"..

What's needed is to somehow attach FAIR wages to jobs. If $10 an hour is what an "American" is paid, it should also be paid to an "immigrant".

What the corporate cronies are doing is crazy. They want to pay super-low wages, and hire desperate people to do the jobs. It's not surprising when some people get angry when they get laid off from a $10-14 hr job, only to find out they have been replaced by $5-6 hr workers doing their old jobs..

This is not accidental, folks.. It's the corporate class sending a message to all of us.. They doe it like this, and by sending our jobs abroad when they cannot get you to work for peanuts.

If we bordered India or Pakistan, it would be the same thing, just a different language issue.

What's truly odd is that during the heyday of unions and our glory-days, people seemed to make plenty of money...bosses and employees. What has changed since then?

Take a look at the stock market numbers..the exorbitant lifestyles of the "boss-class".. Look at how many people have been priced out of the housing market..how many cannot even afford to go to a doctor..look at how much every ting costs, compared to what MOST people make.

The only way the uppers can continue their climb is to pay slave wages.. They cannot get enough "locals" to agree on that, so they are content to import them. As dastardly as our other experience with slavery was, at least they were not expected to "go back" every few years and then willingly come back for more.


People from all over come here to "START A NEW LIFE"...Not to pick peaches for a year, return home, and then do it all over again.