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From what exactly? And where do people get the idea that the US doesn't protect it's borders?

I don't know how many borders you cross, but US border is taken very seriously. The border is a militarised, no-rights zone like Guantanamo, or Afghanistan, or a gulag ship. Even the areas near the border are special. There are checkpoints & pullovers and other such bullshit on the roads around the Canadian border. I assume it's only worse near Mexico. If you fly in from overseas, you now have to give fingerprints when you arrive and when you leave. Creepy. (There's always payback too. Brazil fingerprints & photographs Americans. Japan started fingerprinting every foreigner who lands there. Lovely. )

This kind of crap doesn't protect the rights of those within the borders. They wouldn't lift a finger to protect you; they do it to protect themselves. Increased border security means more insecurity for the people who inevitably slip through and that means they can be exploited all the more. Yippee. You can even make Tejanos and people who just look they come from the wrong side of the border more insecure and therefore more exploitable. And lower wages and fewer rights for them mean lower wages and fewer rights for you.


Looking at a bigger picture, while capital and commodities move quite freely across borders, labour mobility is more and more restricted. It's fairly obvious that the assymetry of mobility has greatly eroded worker power.