Free Slave Labor

I received a text message from a good friend of mine, asking me to write about the issue of deporting slaves, er-illegal immigrants, back south of the border. It is a current issue, one which many americans are worried about, of course.

My own personal experience with illegal immigrants is limited; I've never even met one in person. And yet, it was one day. I was visiting relatives in el paso with my parents as a young child, and we were traveling in this great big ol' red van that housed my brother and two sisters as well, and we had a large tub of food and snacks and all the appropriate games for the long trip.l

Then, sometime in the afternoon as we we're on an El pasan highway, my mother bade us look across the border to mexico. Mexico? Never been there.

As I looked, I saw the endless miles of ramshackle, dilapidated housing, stretching for as far as the eye can see. It was quite a sight: The prosperity of the north, set directly opposed to the subservience of the south. No wonder Mexicans want to live here. Now, let's get one thing straight. Building a great wall of mexico will hardly have any negative affect on the United States Economy. The free trade system between Mexico and The states, as well as the Maquiladora(factory) system in the border towns of mexico has allowed the U.S. to move low wage jobs off U.S. property and into mexico, where the united states can pay workers less than $5 dollars a day. If you are unfamiliar with the system, stop watching CNN and read the economic history of North America, idiot.

Like I was saying, if illegal immigrants pour into the united states as they are doing, we will have to pay them more than what we do in mexico. The whole reason for the North American Free Trade Agreement was to cut costs, raise efficiency, and pay the laborer less. Almost free slave labor is the way to do it.

So what if they can't feed their families? That makes them poor, a statistic that the american republic will just ignore, right? Look at Uganda. The only people sticking up for these immigrants are Hispanic Americans, and even they do not want to be associated with them fully. The poor are always the oppressed, the shit upon masses of society. It's only natural, and easy to understand, why they would want to move over to the U.S. where they stand a chance.

But that's not a good idea. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, most of the laborers in America were the downtrodden poor as well. The irish, italians, germans. They all worked in our factories, making 30 cents an hour, while the rich anglo-saxon owners of production got fat. So what happened? These proletariat masses did not violently rebel. They put their money together and started making group acquisitions of capital. That capital allowed them to get slightly more money, and they put it together again and made another acquisition of capital. With each acquisition, more immigrants were becoming part owners of capital, and as the economy grew, the material wealth of the industrial revolution slowly dispersed throughout the poor. The middle class soon rose from this downtrodden class.

You see, by leaving their homes in mexico, illegal immigrants are running away from the problem. Sure, they get food and money to feed their family, and personally I wouldn't mind making illegal immigrants respective citizens. But this devastates the land back home. It's a tougher journey, for sure, but mexico will not have a respected middle class so long as there is the distraction of moving to america to become part of the already entrentched middle class.

Of course, the great wall of mexico, if properly maintained and built, would make it much harder for mexicans to cross over to the other side. Maybe then they can organize and start building wealth of their own.