[lbo-talk] On immigration

[Joseph Catron]

At a particular party's event last night, it quickly became apparent, as has
occurred to me before, that most American leftists are incapable of talking
about immigration and its effects for five seconds without saying something
profoundly stupid. If they aren't pretending that the infusion of twelve to
twenty million new laborers has had no effects on wages and working
conditions, they're implicitly advocating lower labor costs; and if they
aren't drawing idiotic parallels to the Pilgrims and the Indians (because we
all know how well that worked out for the Indians, right?), they're
yammering about "jobs Americans won't do." (This last one produced great
amusement for me last night, when one conversant proposed that Americans
would never "push a broom" for a living, and it turned out that another one,
a while, middle-class-looking guy, was a state custodian. Huzzah!)

Anyhow, can someone point me towards a substantial argument, from a
perspective that will make sense to working Americans, in favor of amnesty,
other than pure "let's share the misery" do-gooderism or pie-in-the-sky
revolutionary theorizing? Note that I'm looking for a reference to something
book- or at least article-length. The kinds of buzzwords and slogans common
in e-mail exchanges will be of limited use to me, although you're welcome to
throw them out for your own gratification.

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lytlað."