Jonas Hubley is facing deportation if he doesn't leave the country by January 2. However, he is mentally, emotionally, physically and financially dependent on his family.
Immigration isn’t a huge deal. It’s a completely manageable concept that’s held up as this bogeyman in rich countries like Canada, the US, and the UK. The people holding up the bogeyman benefit from a disenfranchised underclass that can’t amass wealth or power due to the precarious nature of their existence in that rich country.
The US has an almost completely and entirely intentionally broken system for legal immigration, which is one of the biggest reasons for its problems with “illegal” immigration.
That is because it is literally profitable for the US to make an entire underclass of immigrants, whom it then exploits for slave labor, than to legitimize their humanity and acknowledge their multibillion dollar contribution to the US economy.
For example, consider US agribusiness, which would literally stop in its tracks without immigrants to work the fields.
If you can make a person “illegal” they are far easier to exploit, to control, to manipulate, to use up and discard than if you make them a citizen. There’s nothing “broken” about it, unless you’re on the wrong end of it (ditto healthcare). It is working exactly as designed.
It’s all about the cash.
The cruelty is just a side benefit. They enjoy that too. But in the US it’s first and foremost and always about the cash.
Wow.
I knew immigration was a huge deal but this seems like a little bit in the wrong direction.
Immigration isn’t a huge deal. It’s a completely manageable concept that’s held up as this bogeyman in rich countries like Canada, the US, and the UK. The people holding up the bogeyman benefit from a disenfranchised underclass that can’t amass wealth or power due to the precarious nature of their existence in that rich country.
The US has an almost completely and entirely intentionally broken system for legal immigration, which is one of the biggest reasons for its problems with “illegal” immigration.
That is because it is literally profitable for the US to make an entire underclass of immigrants, whom it then exploits for slave labor, than to legitimize their humanity and acknowledge their multibillion dollar contribution to the US economy.
For example, consider US agribusiness, which would literally stop in its tracks without immigrants to work the fields.
If you can make a person “illegal” they are far easier to exploit, to control, to manipulate, to use up and discard than if you make them a citizen. There’s nothing “broken” about it, unless you’re on the wrong end of it (ditto healthcare). It is working exactly as designed.
It’s all about the cash.
The cruelty is just a side benefit. They enjoy that too. But in the US it’s first and foremost and always about the cash.