Immigrants are scapegoated

We are told that immigrants are taking away jobs from American workers, that they undercut wages. They are blamed for unemployment and are accused of coming to the U.S. to get rich and use our social services.

All the preceding are lies and/or distortions of the truth.

Who is responsible for the large influx of immigrants from Mexico and other countries south of the border? After U.S. corporations plunder the natural resources and wealth from their countries, the people are left jobless, destitute and starving. They risk their lives to cross the border into the U.S., not seeking riches but only for the survival of themselves and their families.

The blame belongs to the employers and a system in which a handful of people, protected by governments, exploit the vast majority of people around the world.

Another lie is that immigrants downgrade wages. The reality is that the employers, competing among themselves, downgrade and undercut wages to greedily increase their profits. The immigrant must accept any wage just to stay alive. Immigrants do work that, in most cases, the non-immigrant worker will not accept at the low wages offered. We must not believe the lie that immigrants undercut wages.

The solution against declining wages is for immigrants to become part of a united workers’ movement. When this happens, the employers will not be able to drive down wages. The benefits of unionization will be for all workers, non-immigrants as well as immigrants.

That immigrants are sponging on the taxes paid by non-immigrants is a lie. The reality is that immigrants, collectively, pay more than their share of taxes for the limited social services, education and/or health benefits they receive.

Divide and rule is a tactic of the ruling elite governments. Corporate America’s propaganda against immigrants is a divisive strategy

Aaron A. Moss, DDS, PhD