[Marxism] Indentured Servants in the US, Circa 2009

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Indentured Servants, Circa 2009 
By Barbara  Koeppel 
March  18, 2009 
The immigration imbroglio is the gorilla in the  room that wonât go away. 
 
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Feeding on this and last yearsâ gigantic job losses  and fear of more to 
come, anti-immigrant anger is exploding across the U.S.  Thus, Nativists like 
Arizonaâs Sheriff Joe Arpaio are nudged to over-the-top  nastiness: Just a 
month 
ago, he proudly paraded his villains (aka  illegals) through the streets of 
Phoenix before deporting them. 
In fact, since 1872, when the U.S. passed its first  anti-immigrant laws â at 
that time, against Chinese worker sâ Nativists have  played the same 
xenophobia card: With fundamentalist fervor, they fire up those  with fragile 
incomes 
to fear immigrants, legal or otherwise. Lately, local  governments have passed 
punishing laws against undocumented workers, while  enforcement agencies 
ratchet up raids on factories and farms.   
At the same time, Chambers of Commerce insist foreign  guest workers are 
vital to U.S. businesses. Heeding the call,  politicians promise the guests 
will 
figure in any new immigration plan.  Details, however, are absent. 
What they donât say is the U.S. guest worker saga is  riddled with abuse. Nor 
do they mention it squeezes low-skilled domestic  workers, who are also 
bullied in the race to the bottom and are routinely denied  jobs, since the 
guests 
will work for anything under any conditions,  given their desperation. 
Thus, before the new administration answers the  Chambersâ prayers, it must 
examine our guest worker schemes, which the Southern  Poverty Law Center (SPLC) 
in a 2007 report calls âclose to  slavery.â  

full ---     _http://consortiumnews.com/2009/031809a.html_ 
(http://consortiumnews.com/2009/031809a.html)  

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