Immigration Myths, Part 3/5

First few questions and answers.

Aviva Chomsky answers questions about her new book, ' "They Take Our Jobs!", and 20 Other Myths About Immigration'.

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News & Politics

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• Immigration
• myths
• aviva
• chomsky
• salem

[farafintche]

you are right speedy60.that woman is ignorant.she does not know what she is talking about.chomsky took her to school.

lovelove chomsky.

[SpeedyOJ]

the women asking the question is just the typical ignorant misinformed type, she didn't care about the facts

[Xenu]

Yes I think so -- if they had the same rights as other workers there did. If not the chances are closer to zero.

[Xenu]

I didn't know Sarkozy was pushing something like that. Demands that immigrants know the language is ironic since these nativists are at the same time setting up barriers towards assimilation. In the US how many Puerto Ricans don't speak English? Very few, since they're citizens and have equal right to jobs and thus are not forced to find work in predominantly immigrant workplaces. If an adult American were to go to China would s/he learn the language?

[madashelldude]

With Sarkozy's new bill if you don't speak french you are an "illegal". This is the ying-yang of corporate imperialism: not only get the resources by chasing people off their land in the 3rd world we also get "cheap labor" that way and then get to use them as scapegoat in domestic politics. Works wonders for the right wingers as their disastrous economic policies squeeze the middle class by offshoring jobs to slave societies.

[szatmar666]

What you see in western europe today is an emergence of nativism, they call it neo-fascism. Governments are under increased pressure to clamp down on immigration. Hence laws become more restrictive and "illegals" more numerous. What's not yet true about these countries is the brutal targeting, detention and occasional torture of these people as you see in the US. The US is the leading jailer in the world and building concentration camps for "illegals" as we speak.

[leosal7]

Elucidating,(Illuminating)!! Americans should be more concerned with Our troops continuing to invade and kill in many 3rd World countries; Which leads to immigration!!

[Xenu]

What was that audience member's point? That because every nation-state has exclusionary laws they become universally justified? Since when does morality base itself on the question of legality (e.g. Jim Crow)? The subject at hand is the evolution of exclusionary law in the U.S., which Chomsky has done a good job of describing.