Undocumented workers: Arizona yes or no?

2010. Crushing Capitalism with Dr. Asimakopoulos. Vol. 1, ISSN: 2155-8086

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Immigration
• Illegal
• Undocumented
• Workers
• Arizona
• SB 1070
• Law
• State
• Federal
• Local
• Class Consciousness
• Exploitation
• Public Policy
• Imperialism
• Colonialism
• Solidarity
• Racist
• Racism
• Racial
• Profiling
• Unemployment
• Wages

[TSIMedia1]

This is a complicated issue Westonelm because both sides raise valid points. The flip-side of your comments would be that these immigrants pay rent to an American, pay sales taxes to the State when they buy anything, work cheap for an American, and of course it was their country before the US annexed it from Mexico (e.g. AZ, TX, CA), etc.

[iluan666]

As a mexican (livin in mexico and with no plans of imigrating) I got to say you are right.

The problem is that the average wage here is aprox 57 pesos a day (about .55 usd/hour) and it's not going much up because our goverment's main goal is to atract foreign investment so they don't want higher wages and don't tax big companies. On the other hand 11 of the top richest persons on the world are mexicans and the gap gets larger every day.

[Westonelm]

@TSIMedia1

The elite favour countries merging and losing their sovereignty (targeting globalisation so as to make more money for themselves by driving down wages etc.) Arizona's migrant laws are therefore shooting holes in their plans . Obama, ( the elite's puppet) wants to sue Arizona, a fact which violates the 11th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution!!!

(In polls about 70% of legal US Hispanics are against the idea of open borders.)

[Westonelm]

@TSIMedia1

The annexation you referred to is a tag line in the movie .....

"Machete 2010 trailer" ........available on You Tube--directed by

Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez)

"We didn't cross the border .The border crossed us" (I min 50 secs in).

(Some think that the film to be released 3rd September in the US might stir things up even more!)

[Westonelm]

Arizona seems to be dealing with the problem logically and is also confronted with an increase in human and narcotics trafficking and violent activities such as kidnappings and illegals attacking ranches etc

Some say that S.B. 1070 is racist yet surely  Arizona state Senator. Russell Pearce was right when he said “Illegal is not a race; it is a crime.”

[Westonelm]

It's that word "fairness" which intrigues me. Is it fair that Arizona taxpayers should pay roughly $1.3 billion a year for 400, 000 illegal immigrants? (medical needs, incarceration etc without forgetting other future costs such as school nutrition programs and English instruction and more welfare benefits for American workers elbowed out by (illegal) cheaper competitors.)

[Westonelm]

Obama's reaction to independent legislation (S.B. 1070) passed in Arizona. was the following declaration in April 2010 “Our failure to act responsibly at the federal level will only open the door to irresponsibility by others and that includes, for example, recent efforts in Arizona which threaten to undermine basic notions of fairness which we cherish as Americans"

(We know that the elite manipulate Obama and that makes me suspicious.)