It’s like illegal immigrants (Mexicans in my area) are the boogeyman that everybody around me agrees to hate. What, materially speaking, is causing this?
It’s like illegal immigrants (Mexicans in my area) are the boogeyman that everybody around me agrees to hate. What, materially speaking, is causing this?
It drives a wedge between the working class and allows Mexicans to be exploited for slave labor in agricultural work under the threat of deportation of them and their families. It also gives a ton of false excuses for the failures of capitalism, I remember recently Musk has been pushing the whole “Illegals are taking all the affordable housing” thing.
One of the oldest and most reliable wedges.
Especially convenient since the capitalist politicians and their CIA war criminals are the ones that made the nations south of the US border difficult to live in…
Profiting off a problem they cause… then blame the victims…
Same in Europe with our regional figures
It also allows them to alter the perception of refugees fleeing hostile governments from South America, as lazy bums who want to fuck up America by traveling over 4000 miles across mountains and rivers to get to America. Americans cannot be allowed to learn the reasons why these people fleeing South America, to learn that their governments were destabilized so that bananas could remain cheap, or so that oil prices wouldn’t become cheap, or anything other myriad of pretzel shapes Cia spooks will create to justify their crimes against humanity.