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christ...this again.
undocumented workers.
that the category under discussion.
it has little if anything to do with "illegal immigration"
it becomes about "illegal immigration" when reverse migration and other such information is left out of what passes for a discussion.
but hey---"illegal immigration" works to distract people...it allows for fantasies about being-invaded and snippiness about the reorganization of contemporary capitalism to be directed not at firms, not at capital, but rather at folk who already have restricted rights, who already are exploited, who are hired by firms to perform functions because they'll work cheap and cant easily organize into labor unions. but because in the degenerate political context we continue to endure, wherein neo-liberal horseshit is still confused with a viable socio-economic ideology, capital is understood as a priori good and firms "rational actors" in some mythical "private sphere" of the economy, it follows that folk would not think much about firms who hire undocumented workers, preferring instead to froth on and on about their fictional duplicate in the "illegal immigrant"
a reactionary red herring.
that's all this "issue" is.
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