If you change the environment and make it harder for capitalists to (super)exploit foreign labor, native-born working class families will enjoy a rising standard of living because their wages will increase. Supply and demand. But there’s more to it than that.
As I explained back in the last decade, restricting immigration in the 1920s allowed for the integration of foreigners into a unified working class that strengthened worker solidarity and led to the rise of unions. The restricted labor pool, combined with union power raised, the standards of living for American families by raising wages and benefits. It moreover improved working conditions.
It was the opening of the borders in the mid-1960s that played a major role in decoupling wages and benefits from productivity, which was associated with a relative decline in real wages, the destruction of private sector unions, and the rise in public employee unions representing functionaries of the permanent administrative class.
This was a purposeful strategy by the corporate state: to disorganize the civil society of native born workers and drive down their wages by introducing foreign workers into the national economy, as well as offshoring work to the third world, further decimating the American working class. Globalization is the problem. Immigration is integral to globalization.
The only way to restore the economic golden years of the mid-20th century is to sharply restrict immigration and re-shore manufacturing. We have to rebuild the private sector union to recouple productivity with wages and compensation, and the only way to do that is rebuild a unified working class.
We can’t do what we need to do with millions of culture bearers pouring into our country who do not share the values that created the broad and well compensated working class of previous generations. We need time to assimilate all these foreigners. And this time it will be even more difficult; the last time they were mostly Europeans who had experienced the Enlightenment and had a grasp of the classical liberal values and principles of democratic-republicanism. Today’s newcomers in contrast are anti-West. We need closed borders and mass deportations to put the country back on the path to peace and prosperity.
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