Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York’s 14th congressional district, tells her colleagues, “The idea of slamming the door when we desperately need these migrants, we have to make it easier for these individuals to participate in our economy, get a job, support themselves, and live the American dream.”
What is happening to America isn’t about “we.” AOC doesn’t speak for the vast majority of this country, the working people. She’s a progressive. Progressives represent the professional-managerial class whose function it is to advance the material interests of corporate power. Progressivism is the ideological-political standpoint perpetuating corporate state hegemony. The corporate interests are not synonymous with the nation’s interests. Indeed, they are often antithetical to the nation’s interests. AOC’s working class rhetoric is phony.
It’s corporations who desperately need immigrants because of the fall in the rate or profit in late capitalism, the result of aggressive globalization and the ever rising organic composition of capital. The oversupply of cheap labor lowers the wage floor, driving down wages for native workers across sectors, transferring hundreds of billions of dollars in profits annually from the working class to the ruling class—with workers shouldering the immigration burden on housing, infrastructure, public schools, and social services. Democrats want immigrants because serving corporate interests requires staying in power—and staying in power means finding and making voters indebted to open border policies. Moreover, mass immigration disorganizes the working class politically by disordering community and culture.
Back in March, 2022, T. Willard Fair of the Philadelphia Tribute told his readers, “Congress continues to relentlessly push immigration policies that’ll make Black Americans poorer.” He continued, charitably, “That’s not their stated goal, of course. But that’ll nevertheless be the end result of their proposal to amnesty millions of illegal immigrants and boost the level of legal immigration. The lasting effects of uncontrolled, mass immigration on Black Americans are plainly obvious and have been well-documented throughout our country’s history. So how can any Black politician in good conscience advocate for a more expansive immigration policy that would continue to do us harm?”
Workers desperately need good paying jobs with benefits and pensions so they can provide for their families and build strong stable communities that perpetuate the traditions of autonomy, democratic republicanism, individualism, and liberty. After decades of ghettoization, privation, and demoralization, black Americans especially need those jobs. Knowing the effect of immigration of the black community, it can only be intentional that corporations and the professional-managerial strata use mass immigration to keep millions of Americans jobless in the nation’s crimogenic and disorganized inner cities, dependent on the custodial state, where they’re left to vote for a living—yet another subjected population Democrats use to stay in political power (thus answering Willard Fair’s question).
If you want to know why the inner cities of America remain in this condition year after year, look at who governs them. Note the political affiliation of the mayors and city planners. It’s no accident that cities with the highest rates of homicide and robbery are run by progressives, the same political tendency smearing working people as racists and xenophobes when they resist open borders and demand national integrity. It’s all part of a strategy to feed the ruling class profits and keep the political party that promotes those ends in control of the administrative state. And to obscure the truth of it all, the same political-ideological tendency runs our academic institutions, the culture industry, and the mass media organizations.
Slam the door and save America. This is the year to throw out of office the party of managed decline.
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