Everyone loves the region where they were born and raised with few exceptions. Who would choose to leave family and friends for an indefinite period of time? Who would leave knowing that a permanent reunion may never come and the next time home to stay may be in a box? Who would exit knowing maybe not even that will be possible? Imagine living in another country that is far away or not so far away from home, but living under difficult physiological, psychological, and moral conditions. Imagine not speaking the language, the local customs are foreign and having no understanding of the legal system, therefore every official is a threat. Imagine your own ex patriot fellow countrymen victimizing you whenever possible.
Imagine every other communication from home is a request, a plea or a demand for more money. Think of these circumstances as your life with almost no chance of redemption. No holidays, no weekends off, no time out, no chance for equal or fair pay, no get out of jail card, no deliverance, no kidding. Welcome to the life of the legal or illegal immigrant. Immigrants are leaving their home countries in record numbers because the minds bodies and labor they can provide are in heavy demand to feed the host countries needs, appetites, and addictions, for food, work, innovation, intelligence, child care, farming, drugs, and even sex. In fact is this really immigration at all, because the word "immigration" means - to enter and usually become established: to come into a country of which one is not a native for permanent residence.
This meaning in no way Encompass's or even marginally describes the actual situation that exists. Moving people from one area to another to simply enter or become established is not what is happening. Let's add another word as a helper like "indenture" which means - a contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time. Now we are getting closer to the actual situation but we are not quit there yet. Now lets add on more word a descriptive but ugly word, "slavery" which means - drudgery, toil: submission to a dominating influence: state of a person who is chattel of another. Immigration, indenture, slavery, three words that are almost never associated or used in conjunction with each other, because if so used, we have to come to grips with some hard realities which are extremely uncomfortable and inconvenient. These words however they represent the true reality of the circumstances we live in today.
Slavery was never erased, wiped out, ended or done away with as our ultra modern dogma asserts, all it has done is undergo a form of metamorphosis. It has mutated into a more covert assiduous updated form, fully galvanized to corporate and governmental societal institutions. The enslaved today are construction laborers and alien factory workers working for years under the worst safety and environmental conditions possible for subsistence wages without access to family or proper health maintenance. The enslaved are young women tricked into prostitution for little or no money in a strange country, or perhaps sweat shop workers living in the shadows and working 12-16 hour days. Emancipation is now a cruel joke and all that matters is that the crops which feed the dominate societies, corporations, and countries are harvested on time. This happens because we the consumers allow it. Really we don't care what happens to an immigrant, indentured servant, or a slave as long as we get the fresh tomatoes, lettuce, greens, or produce. This is a pit of exploitation shared equally by many countries as diverse as the USA, Spain, South Africa and even Saudi Arabia and Brazil. Immigration is a global problem with local treatment of symptoms only.
We live next to these people we look, but not see them. They are like decorations machines or tools; they are utilized but not recognized. We have developed if not mastered a method of isolating ourselves from their plight. When ever we look at them and start to wonder about their lives we force ourselves to think of something else or we start to rationalize as to why it's not our concern. Truth is we are content with the way things are as long as our needs are being met and the au pair shows up on time to take care of the kids so we can have a night out. We want immigration but on our terms and that doe's not mean legal immigration it means convenient immigration. The supply of people available to do what we want, we demand be manipulated like any other commodity coming from a warehouse to a factory, the point is "on time delivery".
This means people available to do work and fulfill our needs at the exact time they are needed. Then they must be out of sight, out of mind, until required again. Of course people have a habit of not conforming to this regimen, so we pretend this is not the reality. We commission at best, guest worker programs and at worse a police state to manage immigrants by building walls at the borders to restrain and contain them. People would not immigrate in masse if they had what they need at home. The point is to make sure that does not happen. After all who would deliver breakfast with toast in a snowstorm at 7am in New York City on a holiday, if there were no Mexicans or someone like them?
What is the solution? Is it our entire fault? The only answers to these questions have to involve taking a clear unbiased view of the situation and coming to grips with some painful facts. If the demand for immigrants or the products or services they make possible is eliminated, then this would do a lot to cull the ranks of immigrants. However the truth is most of us do not want to eliminate the luxuries and niceties that fit so comfortably into our present life style.
The truth is the ease, entertainment and services that compose our lives make the leisure of ancient royalty pale in comparison. This soft life makes us desire exactly what they desired, slaves and servants. If we were all to adjust our lifestyles then there'd be fewer immigrants because the demand for them would be lower. Second we need to rein in our ever expanding desires for more food, services, drugs, debauchery and accept a simpler a more frugal temporal lifestyle. Thousands of Asian/oriental women are imported to western countries alone because Caucasian males find them different, mysterious, exotic, and more submissive than Caucasian women (be that finding libido fantasy or reality); it leads to mass immigration from the countries used to fulfill this need.
Yes, it is our fault by default and design because some of this is just clearly tied to our past histories, we simply inherited existing situations. Yes again, because we have constructed new avenues by which new kinds of immigration have sprung up and flourished based on new incentives we control. Wars bring immigration, mass agriculture brings immigration, the sex trade brings immigration, mass technology brings immigration, and even our refusal to take on tedious, dirty, dangerous or labor intensive jobs expands and solidifies the need for more immigration.
Striking at the source of the problem means taking a hard unpleasant look at the countries where immigrants come from, it does not matter which one you choose the story is usually the same. The source countries usually have economic, political, and social, instability, caste, or population issues that force exodus. Of course as a byproduct the more affluent countries, societies or regions of the world seem hell bent on keeping things exactly as they are. The result is the world has been carved up into locations of "haves" and "have not's" and this seems to serve the "haves" and their procurer's all too well!
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Habib
Seattle, Washington, United States
He is an independent writer that seeks to bring to the forefront alternative and non status quo ideas. He is committed to seek and pass on views on dieting that delve into the non conformist views while highlighting the human factors of individuality par circumstance.
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