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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (16013)	8/11/2007 5:38:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Re: Praise Be to the third world immigrants, for they are those who increaseth the supply of labor and decreaseth the wages, thereby increasing profits for the rich investors and businesses that advertise in the mass media. But the proper answer to that is to further the "political enfranchisement" of migrant workers --not to deny them citizenship. It's because white Americans seek to keep Hispanic migrants as illegals, out of the US citizenry, that US employers can hire illegals at a discount. Actually, it's a predicament similar to that of the Civil War: the South's slavocracy rested upon a black workforce that was denied political --and even human-- rights.... Give illegal Hispanics full-fledged franchise, the right to organize (unions), health insurance, minimum wages, opportunities to upgrade their skills (and move up the "food chain") and US employers who hire them as fruit-pickers and sweatshop drudges will figure out that hiring "wetbacks" instead of native whites/blacks/latinos is no longer a bargain... Enfranchising Hispanic illegals will gradually spoil and eliminate the incentive to hire them over their native competitors. Such a policy, however, would compel whites to put up with a bicultural (Anglo-Latino) polity... and it might also reveal the "dirty little secret" of a segregated labor market. I mean, suppose that enfranchised Hispanics are lifted to compete on a par with native whites --fruit-picking and garment sweatshops have been turned into a color-blind level-playing field. But what if whites keep shunning them? What if whites see themselves as unfit for such menial occupations despite the perks? At that point, it's the segregated --indeed, racist-- nature of the US labor market that creates a "wage decanter" where Hispanic immigrants are kept at the bottom and whites at the top. Gus