so-called 'illegal immigration':
- a condition where people enter the US without visas or passports or through proper immigration or customs channels, either to live or to work
- when these people are employed, by those who do not question their immigration status, they are exploited and unprotected
- the Right demonizes these people as either 'stealing' employment or receiving welfare, and wants to stop further influx of workers, deport the existing undocumented people, and 'build a wall' between the United States and Mexico
- NAFTA is a factor in Mexico's general unemployment (US offshoring factories to Mexico and later shutting them down - perhaps offshoring to China, Philippines, etc.)
- there is unmet need for workers that is being fulfilled with undocumented workers
offshoring:
- large-scale production has moved from countries which offer worker protection and worker rights to those countries which are less regulated
- these factory-towns are left (after offshoring) in states of unemployment, failing services, and growing poverty
- offshoring is presented as in the best interests of the corporation and stakeholders (i.e. the profit of the corporation and the profit of the stakeholders)
- instead of allowing the exploitation of undocumented workers on US soil, offshoring is the equivalent factory-labor relation: re-locating production from the country with worker rights and protection to countries with none
either corporations are complicit with undocumented workers because they are exploitable and inexpensive labor, or corporations force changes to the US labor market (keep the minimum wage low, retreat from worker rights and protections) to create a labor pool that is exploitable and inexpensive, or offshore production to somewhere that labor is exploitable and inexpensive.
it's also more than just simply labor - it's inexpensive leasing for factories, cheaper property tax structures, lower energy costs, and cheaper access to material resources. lower overhead in general and less protections for workers, environment, and localities.
it's also more than just simply labor - it's inexpensive leasing for factories, cheaper property tax structures, lower energy costs, and cheaper access to material resources. lower overhead in general and less protections for workers, environment, and localities.
