'Instead of raising wages to attract workers and possibly hurting their profits and their stock price, American corporations and businesses bent over backwards bringing cheap labor out of Mexico, Central and South America, where they found hard working, intelligent, family oriented, honest people who would work all day for little money.'
Peace everyone.
Having established the fundamental problem America faces today in parts 1 and 2, we see it is a problem of our own making by allowing the worst people in our society to butcher our education system in order to produce a society of dependent, apathetic egotistic narcissists, who don't understand much of anything outside the latest app.
When I was growing up, I learned in school about the horrifying institution of slavery as it was instituted in the South. I could never understand how anyone could subjugate other human beings to such conditions. I wasn’t taught about slavery in Africa, the peasant system in Europe, or about the serfs that were tied to the land in Russia. As a person studies history, and as I discuss in even more detail in Deceptions of the Ages, slavery has been practiced since the beginning of time. People who were sold in Africa to slave merchants, were often captives of competing tribes. Muslim traders first introduced African people into Western slave institutions when they began trading to plantation owners in the Azores. The market for the cheap labor soon moved west across the Atlantic. Although the Europeans took over the trade in Western Africa, Arabia continued to import people from Africa as slaves until the nineteen seventies (yes, the nineteen seventies).
Not For Me
We can talk about this issue more when we discuss racism, but for now, let’s agree that there is little if any difference between slavery and the term you hear today: cheap labor. Having lived in the countries of Oman and Saudi Arabia, for many years, I will use them as my example outside of the preverbal American box. If you look at the marvelous, roadways, buildings, and the thousands and thousands of individual businesses on the Arabian peninsula, you would most likely be surprised to find out that the Arabs in general have little to do with the construction or the operation of these businesses. They are instead run by people known as “expatriates” or people who have been invited to work in the country. I, for example, worked for government and private contracts and had all of my needs as far as medical and my governmental requirements provided by my employer. When I no longer had an employer, I was required to leave the country. All of the people working in Arabia work under the same system, but the conditions are much different for people from Asia, Africa and the subcontinent of India.
Immigration and the New Slavery
As a Westerner, I was entitled to a great salary, great accommodations and a wonderful lifestyle socializing with not only the Arabs, but expats like myself from all over the world. I discuss this issue in much more detail in my books, My Year in Oman, Another Year in Oman and Killing Time in Saudi Arabia. For the uneducated workers that were imported to build Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the cities of Saudi Arabia and Oman, their conditions were somewhat different. Many worked in the blistering sun laying bricks, running equipment or doing manual labor for the equivalent of sixty to eighty US dollars per month. They are housed in prefabricated mass compounds or in small rooms in family homes, often with no access to air conditioning, clean water (tap water is polluted). Except for medical insurance, if a worker was injured on the job, they were quickly deported. Incidents of abuse, neglect, starvation, assault, rape and murder are reported in the Arab News every day or discussed through the expatriate grapevine. Employees who do not do whatever is required of them can be beaten, or their family can be split up. With no rights and very little redress, there is little difference between the slavery that exists today in Arabia and that which was practiced in the American South, and with the same lack of objection from the general public.
But what do the conditions of some poor villagers from Indonesia, Nepal or India have to do with the United States? Just like the Arabs, we are also a nation of people who no longer want to turn burgers, lay bricks, build houses, pick fruit etc. Well, that is not exactly true. Because America has developed a culture where we want as much money as we can possibly get, and we will screw over anyone to get it, some unscrupulous people started doing what our fruit and vegetable producers have done for years. They began hiring cheaper illegal immigrant labor.
Now, let me make it clear that I want to distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants. I am not singling out anyone because of their country of origin. My wife, who migrated here with me is a legal immigrant. We paid thousands in fees to the US government in order for her to have a green card. She works at a very good paying job.
However, if a person comes across the border without going through a country’s immigration, they are considered an illegal entity in any country in the world and they are sent back. Only in the United States have the masters of double speak tried to replace the term illegal immigrant with the term "migrant."
If I rob a bank, in spite of the fact that I beat my chest a lot and say that I am not, I am still a bank robber, not an aggressive customer. The law is clear. No matter what kind of verbal tricks or subterfuge are bandied about by lawyers and Quislings, a person who comes across the border illegally is breaking the law.The corporation government media likes to throw the word migrant out, which implies the thousands of people crossing our borders every day are somehow going to return home, so there is no need to be concerned.
This is one of the many Jedi mind control tricks that the government easily plays on a population that barely knows the meaning of either word. Now that we have agreed on at least these terms and definitions, let us continue to the real issues here that have very little to do with illegal or legal, migrant or immigrant, but more to do with sheer economics.
To use the produce industry, since it is the industry that enticed many Mexican and Central Americans migrants to move north during the harvest season to pick the fruit, where the American dollars they made were worth much more when they returned home. Greedy, unscrupulous individuals in business and industry in the US decided they had found their much needed source of cheap labor. Instead of raising wages to attract workers and possibly hurting their profits and their stock price, American corporations and businesses bent over backwards bringing cheap labor out of Mexico, Central and South America, where they found hard working, intelligent, family oriented, honest people who would work all day for little money.
It was a bonanza for the unscrupulous US companies who sold things imported from the slave factories and used cheap illegal immigrant labor (slaves) to do it. And of course, we know who those corporations are, but we can't afford to be conscientious consumers-we're all broke. Sadly, it was also a death knell for those companies who could not compete because they hired Americans and tried to pay their workers a decent wage.
Rather than protect its citizens, the corporation run government has inundated every community in the United States except those of the very wealthy, with poor, uneducated individuals who speak little English, have completely different customs and beliefs and their families whose children speak no English. In spite of the fact that their revenues continue to fall in cities throughout the US, corporations who are employing illegal immigrant labor are not only adding additional tax burdens but taking tax money out of the municipality through lost revenue from their own unemployed citizens.
So, we see, that the immigration question is not what it seems. The blame for our high crime rate, the financial devastation of municipalities across the country and of course, racism and the rise of Donald Trump makes as much sense as the War On Drugs. If American corporations didn't employ people who cross our borders illegally in search of a country that isn't completely corrupt and overpopulated yet, they wouldn't be here. We need them. They need us. We just need a way that they can come here and work with rights and fair pay, but that they are able to return home when their contract is finished-like every other country in the world.
In Part 4 we will discuss the political implications of the Immigration Issue.
In Part 4 we will discuss the political implications of the Immigration Issue.
