I Am Sick And Tired Of The Anti-immigration Laws
We are told by experts across the political spectrum that corporations like liberal immigration laws.
What corporations want is cheap labor that has no enforceable rights. Therefore, they would, indeed, despise well-enforced, strict, anti-immigration laws because such a system would greatly limit the number of immigrants in the country who could potentially be cheap labor with no enforceable rights. But corporations would [b]also[/b] hate it if undocumented immigrants got a pathway to citizenship because this would result in virtually all immigrants in the country having enforceable rights.
Hence, what corporations want is tough immigration laws that are sporadically enforced. They want the laws tough so that there is no legal avenue for most people in the world to immigrate to the United States, forcing people to choose between coming illegally and not coming at all. Since the push factors which inspired them to consider seriously leaving their country are very, very strong, many will choose to come to the United States illegally. But corporations want these tough laws to be enforced only sporadically so that, at any given time, there are a lot of undocumented immigrants in the country. Undocumented immigrants do not want to come to the attention of any government agency; therefore, if their employers do not pay them the minimum wage, give them breaks, etc, then the undocumented immigrants will NOT report the situation to the government.
In this manner, corporations would like to continue to exploit desperate undocumented immigrants in order to maximize their profits. The only system that allows this to happen is one with unreasonably tough, but sporadically enforced, immigration laws.
What corporations want is cheap labor that has no enforceable rights. Therefore, they would, indeed, despise well-enforced, strict, anti-immigration laws because such a system would greatly limit the number of immigrants in the country who could potentially be cheap labor with no enforceable rights. But corporations would [b]also[/b] hate it if undocumented immigrants got a pathway to citizenship because this would result in virtually all immigrants in the country having enforceable rights.
Hence, what corporations want is tough immigration laws that are sporadically enforced. They want the laws tough so that there is no legal avenue for most people in the world to immigrate to the United States, forcing people to choose between coming illegally and not coming at all. Since the push factors which inspired them to consider seriously leaving their country are very, very strong, many will choose to come to the United States illegally. But corporations want these tough laws to be enforced only sporadically so that, at any given time, there are a lot of undocumented immigrants in the country. Undocumented immigrants do not want to come to the attention of any government agency; therefore, if their employers do not pay them the minimum wage, give them breaks, etc, then the undocumented immigrants will NOT report the situation to the government.
In this manner, corporations would like to continue to exploit desperate undocumented immigrants in order to maximize their profits. The only system that allows this to happen is one with unreasonably tough, but sporadically enforced, immigration laws.
