Immigration Reform "...true taxation without representation."

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Both the American and Mexican bourgeois benefit from this situation. Not only are the economies, but also the labor forces of the two countries integrated more and more tightly. Revenues sent back home from Mexicans working in the US make up an important part of Mexico’s GDP. Incredibly, it is the second most important source of revenue for the state, with only the state-owned petroleum industry, PEMEX, bringing in more. With hundreds of thousands of would-be job seekers leaving Mexico yearly, pressure on the government and economy there is relieved. Even many conservatives in the US, who are generally anti-immigration and have a racist attitude towards Latinos, understand the vital role played by cheap immigrant labor, especially for large agricultural interests and service-oriented companies such as fast food. U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue is forced to acknowledge the importance of these workers to the US economy: “if they went home, we’d have to shut down the country.”
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Bush is a “free marketer” and pro-globalization so long as the terms of trade are favorable for US corporations. His plan to expand NAFTA into the FTAA is an effort to control the flow of the Western Hemisphere’s resources and workers in the interests of the US capitalist class. His plan for immigration “reform” is merely an extension of this. Why ship jobs and entire factories to Mexico when you can bring those low-wage workers here instead? By tracking the movement of millions immigrants, the government will be better able to tighten their control over the population as a whole, and will be able to send back these immigrant workers any time they choose. Millions more workers will be brought onto the minimum wage pay and tax-rolls - Millions of workers who will not have the right to vote – true taxation without representation. Any opposition to this plan by “conservatives” is nothing but wool pulled over the eyes of working Americans in an effort to divert attention from the real class interests involved.

http://www.socialistappeal.org/usa/truth_behind_immigration_reform.html