re: #27 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Though it appears to play well with a large segment of the population in both the USA and Europe.

Europe is several centuries deep in denying that it can only function through devalued labor, and has even more incentive than the US to insist that “the immigrants” are the source of their woes because they don’t have our exploitable land mass to fall back on, nor our internal population of de-valuable labor.

The thing to remember is that anti-immigrant sentiment doesn’t really mean pushing everyone out, it means creating rule structures that keeps immigrants from having rights…labor, human…in ways that keep them a permanent legally-distinct group. US or Europe, the dirty cheap dangerous jobs need to be filled with people that can’t complain.

Having just been in Portugal…poorest country in Western Europe…it’s fascinating to see the labor crisis there expressed both as the number of young people doing migrant labor in the rest of Europe, but also as the Portugese-speaking ex-colonial work force being pulled into the mainland to do things on the cheap. Xenophobic sentiments doesn’t change the meat-and-potatoes reality of the kind of work that needs to be done on the cheap.

England’s already shot itself in the foot with Brexit, and is following up by heaping further punitive conditions on it’s own imported labor pools from Eastern Europe and the ex-colonies: labor exploitation is increasing, there’s more cases of captive laborers detained without pay or recourse to leave, even as shit like the Rwanda plan is floated for refugees.