Mischief Maker wrote:Well if you don't have an entire labor force exempt from minimum wage, workplace safety, healthcare, and other rights because they've been declared "illegal," management won't have the option to undercut union labor that way anymore.
An unlimited supply of labor is good for the American worker, as long as the unlimited labor has the same rights and privileges as actual American citizens - the only thing they had in their favor? I'm kinda thunderstruck that this argument is being made. Maybe send a sample of your writing and a resume to the Cato Institute.
H-1B Visas Keep Down U.S. Tech Wages, Study Shows
What can we learn from the perfectly legal H1Bs and wages above the minimum? Is it good for the American worker to be replaced by foreigners who will take less pay? Maybe if we remove all of the pesky red tape, drop the pretense of hiring American workers first and place no limits on the amount of foreign workers that can be brought in...
And this is just looking at things from an economic point of view. We can see the cultural and political disturbances of proto-open borders right now, and it's hard to imagine a de-escalation.
Racism has always been a divide-and-conquer strategy against the working class,
You're basically saying that it has a 100% success rate. Why do you think that is? Could it be that it (in-group preference) comes naturally to humans, and this is a very easy thing to exploit. All that is required to aggravate it is forcing people to share a territory and compete for resources (which increasingly resemble scraps). Distrust and anger are quick to develop, and can be triggered by manufactured events - like, they don't even have to wait for things to take a natural turn.
all the way back to the invention of "the white race" in the 1670s.
Yakub and about 6000 years ago.