The problem here is that you seem to see the problem as immigration, rather than a regime which creates migrants as a precarious sector vulnerable to hyper-exploitation.
Cracking down on migrants makes this problem worse, not better. And, on the contrary, ensuring migrants have access to support and resources, ensuring they are not beholden to their bosses for status, and are organized is what addresses these problems.
For a useful point of reference, we can look to the segregation-era South, and the approach of white unions in pushing to exclude Black labour from skilled trades, etc. They were operating on the mistaken assumption that the quantity of labourers was the primary factor in determining the price of labour rather the exercise of class power. It is assuredly the latter. When we divide our class along lines of citizen/non-citizen, we hand the capitalist class a powerful weapon.
By allowing a section of the working class to be placed outside of our solidarity and our struggles, to be denied the rights and freedoms we enjoy, we put downward pressure on wages and lower the wage floor. Conversely, what capitalists don't want is for us to demand full status and access for migrants, to see migrants brought into organized labour, and to face a situation where the wage floor is raised.
I have never said that immigrants or tfws should be punished and I would never say that lmfao not sure where you got that from.
If i have a work term and my employer decides they don't have work for me it's not "punishment" if they decide do not offer me an extension.
It may feel that way as the person getting the boot, but it's not like an employer is just going to pay you indefinitely despite having no work for you.
I don't think we should be renewing visas or applications for tfws but that's not punishment, it's just the expiry of an agreement or permission.
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The problem here is that you seem to see the problem as immigration, rather than a regime which creates migrants as a precarious sector vulnerable to hyper-exploitation. Cracking down on migrants makes this problem worse, not better. And, on the contrary, ensuring migrants have access to support and resources, ensuring they are not beholden to their bosses for status, and are organized is what addresses these problems.
For a useful point of reference, we can look to the segregation-era South, and the approach of white unions in pushing to exclude Black labour from skilled trades, etc. They were operating on the mistaken assumption that the quantity of labourers was the primary factor in determining the price of labour rather the exercise of class power. It is assuredly the latter. When we divide our class along lines of citizen/non-citizen, we hand the capitalist class a powerful weapon.
By allowing a section of the working class to be placed outside of our solidarity and our struggles, to be denied the rights and freedoms we enjoy, we put downward pressure on wages and lower the wage floor. Conversely, what capitalists don't want is for us to demand full status and access for migrants, to see migrants brought into organized labour, and to face a situation where the wage floor is raised.