Immigration policy--basic question
US Immigration Policy Change vs. the powers that be
Do you agree with the following (excerpted) view of Prof. Wm. Robinson, U.of California (Santa Barbara) (see complete article in Z-Net 3/10/07 or the summary in our newsletter INTERCONNECT—via this website home page, click on “newsletter”, then “archives”, then the 7/07 issue page 3):
“The powers that want to reorganize the world feel they must control workers worldwide and capture natural resources and labor pools worldwide….(to create) the division of workers into immigrants and citizens—a new axis of inequality worldwide, between citizen and non-citizen. The system…can’t function without this reserve army of immigrant labor. It needs this to maintain the status quo…immigrant labor that is vulnerable, undocumented, deportable…controllable. The aim of the powers that be is not to do away with…immigrants but to exercise repressive control over immigrants…to super-exploit with impunity. Hence, the dual emphasis on guest worker programs alongside criminalization, enforcement and militarization.”
Do you agree? If so, should we continue to try to help build the campaign to change US immigration policy to a humane one…or would this effort be impossible and just patching up the rotten overall system of corporate globalization/free trade/neoliberalism? Should we focus more of closing down NAFTA, the World Bank/IMF/WTO...while expanding humanitarian programs for refugee rights, saving lives at the border, etc.?
What do you think? —-Peter Mott
— Peter Mott
