It drives down the price of labor. Corporations, left and right, will always push this because it helps big business, and big business bribes politicians.
I live in a place with a large Somalian community.
Virtually all of them (thousands and thousands) work at the same horrible and low pay factory chain, and were brought here on either work visas, or family visas for people who originally had work visas. The factory chain offers a significantly worse deal to it's workers than any other surrounding company, yet it never struggles to attract employees.
There is a reason that company remains in operation, as one of the largest brands in the country, despite paying less than $8 per hour with no benefits. Because the real wage they offer is getting to live in America. Third world people are accustomed to poor living conditions and low pay, they will out-compete American workers nearly every time because of their willingness to tolerate suffering, so the company signed a deal in cooperation with the state government to fast-track the visa process.
Businesses fund politicians who sign bills that fast-track work visas, and since the same people own the media, the media pushes more immigration as well. All for the real goal of enriching the corporations through the suffering of Americans.
There has never been a population, in the history of the world, who supported mass immigration into their own country. Not one. And yet it happens constantly, even in supposedly “democratic” countries. Because immigration is actually just foreign invasion perpetrated by hostile foreign actors who have captured the levers of power in order to force suicidal legislation on the citizenry.
Um, Canada? We invited many thousands of Germans, Ukrainians and other sources of Mennonites to settle in the West. Like my ancestors, for example. (They had turned Catholic, but that's another story)
The USA has done so too, but these were invited peoples, not a flood of the dregs of other societies.
I agree with almost everything you said. I just think you overestimate their "willingness to endure suffering". I live in a third world country, and I can tell you that what you call suffering is actually a very comfortable existence to poor people down here. I don't know about Somalians specifically, but I bet that they are not stoic driven people. It's just that sharing a small house with 8 of their countrymen in some shitty town in Minnesota is better than the hovel they lived in back home. And the 8 bucks an hour enable them to actually provide for their families in a way they were never able to. Not to mention that they can afford consumer goods like cars and iPhones which are probably something only rich people have access to in many countries.
It drives down the price of labor. Corporations, left and right, will always push this because it helps big business, and big business bribes politicians.
I live in a place with a large Somalian community.
Virtually all of them (thousands and thousands) work at the same horrible and low pay factory chain, and were brought here on either work visas, or family visas for people who originally had work visas. The factory chain offers a significantly worse deal to it's workers than any other surrounding company, yet it never struggles to attract employees.
There is a reason that company remains in operation, as one of the largest brands in the country, despite paying less than $8 per hour with no benefits. Because the real wage they offer is getting to live in America. Third world people are accustomed to poor living conditions and low pay, they will out-compete American workers nearly every time because of their willingness to tolerate suffering, so the company signed a deal in cooperation with the state government to fast-track the visa process.
Businesses fund politicians who sign bills that fast-track work visas, and since the same people own the media, the media pushes more immigration as well. All for the real goal of enriching the corporations through the suffering of Americans.
There has never been a population, in the history of the world, who supported mass immigration into their own country. Not one. And yet it happens constantly, even in supposedly “democratic” countries. Because immigration is actually just foreign invasion perpetrated by hostile foreign actors who have captured the levers of power in order to force suicidal legislation on the citizenry.
Um, Canada? We invited many thousands of Germans, Ukrainians and other sources of Mennonites to settle in the West. Like my ancestors, for example. (They had turned Catholic, but that's another story)
The USA has done so too, but these were invited peoples, not a flood of the dregs of other societies.
I agree with almost everything you said. I just think you overestimate their "willingness to endure suffering". I live in a third world country, and I can tell you that what you call suffering is actually a very comfortable existence to poor people down here. I don't know about Somalians specifically, but I bet that they are not stoic driven people. It's just that sharing a small house with 8 of their countrymen in some shitty town in Minnesota is better than the hovel they lived in back home. And the 8 bucks an hour enable them to actually provide for their families in a way they were never able to. Not to mention that they can afford consumer goods like cars and iPhones which are probably something only rich people have access to in many countries.