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The_Shadout_Mapes's avatar

Without immigrant labor, both documented and undocumented, our nation would grind to a halt. Entire industries would dissolve due to extreme labor shortages. Our economy would be in a depression so severe it would make the Great Depression seem like a recession. These people have no foresight or critical thinking skills.

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

You're not wrong...but also, the right, big business, and trump may actually like the idea of a depression to some degree. workers are more compliant when unemployment is high.

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The_Shadout_Mapes's avatar

Tim Gurner, an Australian billionaire, gave a talk where he championed raising the unemployment rate to 40 - 50% so that the workers would be reminded they work for the employers, not the other way around. So yes, that is what they want.

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Marg Escobar's avatar

I think some of the powerful would love to use convict slaves

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DR Darke's avatar

I thought I was pretty well up on mid-Twentieth Century history, but Eisenhower's deportation of a quarter-million Hispanics comes as a total shock to me! (I'd have figured that kind of thing was more his then-VP Nixon's speed.)

No wonder Trump is a fan....

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

It's barely taught in school if at all, and has almost completely vanished from popular (anglophone) culture and memory.)

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NickS (WA)'s avatar

A related story is immortalized in a Woody Guthrie song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfi0IUh4y8A

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Robert Spottswood, M.A.'s avatar

“The less cheerful perspective is that slavery, racism, and colonialism are the core of American history and identity, and the high-minded language about equality and freedom is a hypocritical distraction from the core oppression which defines American hegemony at home and abroad.“

this is such an accurate and articulate summary of a slippery concept, I can hardly stand it.

Thanks a million bazillion for this!

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