"Circular Migration".. another name for Slave Rental

[SoCalDem]

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It's not surprising when some people get angry when they get laid off from a $10-14 hr job, only to find out they have been replaced by $5-6 hr workers doing their old jobs..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.:eyes:


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.

[DBoon]

1. to deal with immigration effectively

we have to change the way our labor markets work, in a very fundamental way

[mattclearing]

2. It's institutionalized indentured servitude.

The corporations are probably furious that Republicans have opened this can of worms.

It exposes their longstanding exploitation of undocumented workers.

They may have to pay them fairly or lose them before this whole thing is over.

This is going to be more of a snafu for the right wing in the long run than the ports thing ever was.

[ladjf]

6. Hey, the corporations have been abusing the American

citizens before the Mexicans entered the Country. Now, the Americans are fired, replaced by immigrants who are abused even worse. It is most definitely an active, literal form of slavery.

[Joanne98]

3. Bravo! To brave SoCalDem! Another two cents from ex-CA

I'm supporting the House bill 100%. Make them felons and deport them then build a fence.As someone who grew up in CA on the border I detest illegal immigration. In fact I know alot of Mexicans born in this country who also hate illegals. It doesn't have anything to do with race. It's called EXPLOITATION! If you're pro-union, pro-environment, anti-redevelopment, anti-housing bubble, anti-globalization and most of all anti-slavery. E-mail your senator right now and tell them your a democrat who supports the house bill.
Joanne98
PS. I forgot anti-police state.

[Joanne98]

4. K&R

[ladjf]

5. Mexicans are trading slave labor situations in Mexico for the

same thing in the U.S. with perhaps a bit higher wages, but still not enough to be a free person.