The "immigration crisis," H-2A and pushing Obama for something better

From FLOC:

In the last few years, we have seen efforts to create an "immigration crisis" through raids on undocumented workers, the Real ID act, denial of driver licenses to undocumented immigrants, state laws to punish employers who hire undocumented workers, and other "enforcement only" actions.

As we have asked many times, who is behind the harsh treatment of immigrants? One hidden agenda is to force through a "guest worker" program that legally exploits immigrant labor and denies these workers their basic human rights, to the benefit of rich investors.

Instead of helping to fix America's broken immigration system, "enforcement-only" plans only result in the increased misery of millions of the hardest working people in this country, as well as lower labor standards for the American working class in general. They do very little to reduce the immigrant population living in the country without legal status, because the underlying causes of immigrantion are not addressed... especially those policies created by the U.S. power elite to benefit the rich, such as the North American Free Trade Act.

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