LT.Victim wrote:
I really don't see the problem with exploiting illegal mexicans.
Neither do the American businesses that employ them. You know, the ones
giving jobs to illegal immigrants.
LT.Victim wrote:
I mean, if they want a honest pay and to be treated fairly, then they should come into the US legally.
If they came in legally, it would deprive American businesses of easily-bullied and exploitable workers and it would deprive nativist whiners of both a new scapegoat and a new group to use their recycled rhetoric against.
LT.Victim wrote:
I have no problem with Mexicans, it's the illegals that I don't like.
I'm sure the guy making the border crossing running a gauntlet of human traffickers, border patrols, wet-behind-the-ears National Guardsmen and fat guys with binoculars in lawn chairs to try and make some kind of living really gives a damn whether he's good in your eyes or not.
Look, in this situation, as with many in life, there are winners and losers. Our government wins with trade deals that force Mexico to accept US exports and the increased paranoia and xenophobia of US citizens towards Mexicans. Their government wins as the benificiaries of the trade deals they cut with the US and from the money that crosses back into Mexico from the US. American businesses and wealthy people win both by having hardworking employees that can be easily ditched back to Mexico if they get out of hand and by creating a divide between working-class people that keeps the focus off themselves as the problem. The rest of us, American and Mexican? We're the losers. In America, we lose jobs to companies who long for the good old days when employees didn't backtalk them about silly things like health insurance and safe working conditions. In Mexico, they lose jobs as their agriculture and industry are ground under by a steady flood of US imports. And all of us losers keep letting the winners set us at each others' throats.