Business Class Uses Illegal Immigrants as Tool in Class Abuse
John Sileo
April 04, 2006
Our immigration laws run counter to the intentions of our Business Class, the source of this nation?s greatest economic and political power. Small businesses, wealthy individuals, and corporations (collectively: the Business Class) egg on illegal immigrants by throwing a pile of money, by immigrants standards, in their face to take jobs here in the US, pushing out the American worker by lowering wages and eliminating benefits.
And the lure of a massive wage increase for illegals is no half benefit considering that virtually all of them live in poverty, many in extreme conditions. They aren?t coming here to better their lives by US standards. They are coming here to escape poverty. Their ambition is actually desperation.
And the Business Class is helping them. That help is not done out of goodwill, but out of abuse against the US worker.
Don?t get me wrong, I am glad so many immigrants are getting help. On the other hand I am disappointed that our leaders in the Business Class are so classless that they would abuse our workers and then the media (who is largely influenced by the same Business Class) and other US leaders would focus on how wrong it is that illegals are lawbreakers.
As a matter of fact, illegals and businesses who hire them are lawbreakers. Except the law they break is not a law the US is unified in enforcing. We show our indifference by lax enforcement. And we demonize illegals as bad! That is so disheartening because, in actuality, the lax enforcement is the problem. Our de facto law says, ?please come in, Mr. and Mrs. Illegal?. So the illegal is not the problem. The confusing law, and those that make laws, holds the lion?s share of the problem.
Blame poor Hispanic workers- PLEASE!.
What is worse, they are desperately suffering in our game of class abuse. First, they suffer in Mexico and other Latino countries. Then they suffer in their daily lives as illegals here who work the worst jobs, forever living in fear of deportation. Then we spread the message that they are something that is abusing our system and needs to be dealt with. Then why did we (the Business Class) bring them over here in the first place if we (the US as a whole) doesn?t want them here. They are probably very frustrated at our lack of unity. They say, ?Americans don?t know what they want?, I bet.
Not to mention the truly untold part of the story: the daily lives they lead as illegals working in US businesses without protection from benefits. Maybe we forget, but benefits like unemployment insurance, workers compensation, as well as legal protections against sexual harassment and discrimination have almost no impact on illegals. An illegal can?t file a claim for sexual harassment or workers compensation, unless they risk deportation. If they file a claim or not, their chances of getting worker protections like these are nil.
Those protections exist in our laws only because businesses and supervisors have and will abuse workers. In fact, a family member of mine works in just such a place where one illegal who had a severe limp was begging the company to ignore it because, he said, he had fake papers. They did. For the hurt illegal worker they have three options: go without a job, work hurt, or try for help and risk deportation. Just getting help is not an option.
Another story at my family member?s job is the termination of a supervisor for forcing sex from illegal female workers in exchange for keeping their jobs. That is sexual harassment in the worst way. But for the illegal, it is not sexual harassment since the law does not or cannot protect them (a caring manager fired the supervisor). Legal authority can?t protect what it doesn?t know about. And these stories are real. They happen because our Business Class has control of our laws and has CHOSEN to encourage illegals while not pushing for appropriate and moral legislation to legitimize their presence, presumably because benefits will cost them too much. All this bad in order to accomplish another bad: abuse the US worker and become richer than they already are? Statistics show a ever growing gap between rich and poor in recent decades. I am not satisfied.
WHAT TO DO DIFFERENTLY
We need to reckognize this for what it is: class abuse. And we must lay blame where it resides: the Business Class who has ignited, sustained, and nurtures a greedy tactic. That greedy tactic uses immigrant workers to take advantage of American workers and then encourages our leaders and media to sit mostly silent as the blame is lied at the sore feet of illegal immigrants. This is not righteous. This is abusive and misleading leadership, and I hold the Business Class accountable since they hold the majority of power in this uncertain country.
Stand up and lead by telling the truth about class abuse. And don?t forget the part about the rich getting richer from 30 years of illegal immigration because THAT?S WHAT IT?S ALL ABOUT. Illegals are NOT taking advantage; instead they are being taken advantage of, even if the US worker sees it otherwise.
UPDATE:
It seems that some individuals who would agree with my assessment that blame for illegals is misplaced and actually the fault of the so-called Business Class have a point to make.
Several people have told me this: so what. It?s a good point and illegals are unjustly blamed but so what. They think it is unfortunate but I am not taking the whole picture into context. Illegals are getting a lot more than they used to, aren?t they? So what if our intentions are selfish, we are still giving them a lot more than they had.
I can?t disagree and I recognize that they ARE benefiting tremendously. Except I still say it is abusive because we CAN afford (quite easily really) to give them far more. We can pay them better, give them benefits, and still stay far richer than the lower class. We have so much more than the lower class; it would take a lot of sharing of our wealth before we were nearly as poor as they are. So we COULD give more. And if we don?t, then you can?t say we are nurturing.
And the lure of a massive wage increase for illegals is no half benefit considering that virtually all of them live in poverty, many in extreme conditions. They aren?t coming here to better their lives by US standards. They are coming here to escape poverty. Their ambition is actually desperation.
And the Business Class is helping them. That help is not done out of goodwill, but out of abuse against the US worker.
Don?t get me wrong, I am glad so many immigrants are getting help. On the other hand I am disappointed that our leaders in the Business Class are so classless that they would abuse our workers and then the media (who is largely influenced by the same Business Class) and other US leaders would focus on how wrong it is that illegals are lawbreakers.
As a matter of fact, illegals and businesses who hire them are lawbreakers. Except the law they break is not a law the US is unified in enforcing. We show our indifference by lax enforcement. And we demonize illegals as bad! That is so disheartening because, in actuality, the lax enforcement is the problem. Our de facto law says, ?please come in, Mr. and Mrs. Illegal?. So the illegal is not the problem. The confusing law, and those that make laws, holds the lion?s share of the problem.
Blame poor Hispanic workers- PLEASE!.
What is worse, they are desperately suffering in our game of class abuse. First, they suffer in Mexico and other Latino countries. Then they suffer in their daily lives as illegals here who work the worst jobs, forever living in fear of deportation. Then we spread the message that they are something that is abusing our system and needs to be dealt with. Then why did we (the Business Class) bring them over here in the first place if we (the US as a whole) doesn?t want them here. They are probably very frustrated at our lack of unity. They say, ?Americans don?t know what they want?, I bet.
Not to mention the truly untold part of the story: the daily lives they lead as illegals working in US businesses without protection from benefits. Maybe we forget, but benefits like unemployment insurance, workers compensation, as well as legal protections against sexual harassment and discrimination have almost no impact on illegals. An illegal can?t file a claim for sexual harassment or workers compensation, unless they risk deportation. If they file a claim or not, their chances of getting worker protections like these are nil.
Those protections exist in our laws only because businesses and supervisors have and will abuse workers. In fact, a family member of mine works in just such a place where one illegal who had a severe limp was begging the company to ignore it because, he said, he had fake papers. They did. For the hurt illegal worker they have three options: go without a job, work hurt, or try for help and risk deportation. Just getting help is not an option.
Another story at my family member?s job is the termination of a supervisor for forcing sex from illegal female workers in exchange for keeping their jobs. That is sexual harassment in the worst way. But for the illegal, it is not sexual harassment since the law does not or cannot protect them (a caring manager fired the supervisor). Legal authority can?t protect what it doesn?t know about. And these stories are real. They happen because our Business Class has control of our laws and has CHOSEN to encourage illegals while not pushing for appropriate and moral legislation to legitimize their presence, presumably because benefits will cost them too much. All this bad in order to accomplish another bad: abuse the US worker and become richer than they already are? Statistics show a ever growing gap between rich and poor in recent decades. I am not satisfied.
WHAT TO DO DIFFERENTLY
We need to reckognize this for what it is: class abuse. And we must lay blame where it resides: the Business Class who has ignited, sustained, and nurtures a greedy tactic. That greedy tactic uses immigrant workers to take advantage of American workers and then encourages our leaders and media to sit mostly silent as the blame is lied at the sore feet of illegal immigrants. This is not righteous. This is abusive and misleading leadership, and I hold the Business Class accountable since they hold the majority of power in this uncertain country.
Stand up and lead by telling the truth about class abuse. And don?t forget the part about the rich getting richer from 30 years of illegal immigration because THAT?S WHAT IT?S ALL ABOUT. Illegals are NOT taking advantage; instead they are being taken advantage of, even if the US worker sees it otherwise.
UPDATE:
It seems that some individuals who would agree with my assessment that blame for illegals is misplaced and actually the fault of the so-called Business Class have a point to make.
Several people have told me this: so what. It?s a good point and illegals are unjustly blamed but so what. They think it is unfortunate but I am not taking the whole picture into context. Illegals are getting a lot more than they used to, aren?t they? So what if our intentions are selfish, we are still giving them a lot more than they had.
I can?t disagree and I recognize that they ARE benefiting tremendously. Except I still say it is abusive because we CAN afford (quite easily really) to give them far more. We can pay them better, give them benefits, and still stay far richer than the lower class. We have so much more than the lower class; it would take a lot of sharing of our wealth before we were nearly as poor as they are. So we COULD give more. And if we don?t, then you can?t say we are nurturing.
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