• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    As such lovers of free market capitalism, shouldn’t Republicans want immigrants to come here and compete for work so that corporations can get employees for the lowest wages possible?

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 year ago

      Which is ironically the classic leftist argument against free migration until the one world economy is realized. Constant immigration of low skilled labor serves the capitalist class by suppressing wages and stirring up resentment amongst the rabble so they turn on each other instead of their oppressor.

    • masquenox@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      1 year ago

      shouldn’t Republicans want immigrants to come here and compete for work

      Yes, they do - which is why they do everything in their power to keep that disempowered labor disempowered by hysterically painting them as an “other” that must be repressed through every means available.

      It’s just how right-wing ideology has always worked.

    • kool_newt@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      They do, immigration is a often a talking point for manipulating the hateful.