Why can't the Democratic Party and responsible media communicate this as clearly as Robert Reich? Robert has become such a powerful voice for reason online.
@@johnerwin4573 Robert? MFG man, he can't be further from being Alex Jones. Reich is a scholar with a storied career in government. Alex Jones is jumped up trailer trash ranting like the drunk on the end of the bar.
@@spankyssurprise1361Yes, but legality isn't what's driving anti-immigration. It's immigration period. If legality was the issue, Republicans would fund adequate border staffing/resources, which Democrats do.
We were not because America was found by settlers. A immigrant goes to land that already build. A settlers found new land to build upon. One thing that true for immigrants in America that immigrants help build America.
@@guy_who_like_draw_and_stuf1977 FYI, America was much more advanced and settled / developed by the native Indian's they were killed & butchered and we stole their land!!! Watch land of 500 Nations. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E7Ls57OFhaM.html IT WAS NOT FOUND BY THE SETTELARS!!!
Thanks, Bob, for your oration on this subject. My grandfather came into this country without documentation at the turn of the last century. He worked here all his life, got married, raised 5 children (which in turn generated 20 grandchildren of which I am one). If the government would like to deport him for this crime, they have the family's permission. Of course. they'll have to exhume him first. Thanks again.
@@augustmosco That’s why Italian immigrants were called “WOPs”! With Out Papers! A huge number of immigrants from all over the world have come into the US without proper documentation, including my grandmother who came from Poland as a small child to escape Nazi’s and spoke “broken-English” mixed with words from various other languages her whole life.
Trump was president for 4 years and he did not stop migration because migration is important for the people who have the most money because they need low-wage workers Because they don't like paying Americans good salaries.
@@Seeta_sa_gauta Thats because the government made it more profitable to not work over the decades. Now its coming back around where if you don’t work you don’t eat like it use to be a few decades ago.
@@markcampbell9109 People still don't get it especially our government, President Reagan offered amnesty, but forgot to close boarders or at least check for illegals
There isn't really a plan to do that, just a system that's become so entrenched that anything larger than Bob's Neighborhood Accounting and Tax Service or Carol's Virtual Assistant has high hurdles to overcome. In the 1980s, when large numbers of Southeast Asian immigrants were the bogeymen and urban dwellers moved to smaller communities, the powers-that-be passed reactionary laws that favored local businesses. Bizarre requirements for licensing just to _be_ a beautician or mechanic or operate a laundromat. Those laws are still in place, even as the local hair cutters and car mechanics and laundromat operators retire.
My grandfather immigrated here from the Netherlands in the early 1900s, married my grandmother, worked for a car company and raised my mother and aunt for 30 years.
@@SaraGrant-xj4lr I always marvel at how flat earthers and persons believing in unlimited immigration admit no possibility they could possibly be in error. It is not in the interests of people at the bottom of the economy. Congratulations! You have succumbed to making an ad hominem attack. This is the technique liberals used to find so distasteful when Republicans used it on a regular basis. Now it is a short cut for lazy and thoughtless liberals. Stellar day!
@@musicmatters4357 and for you to have Carlin in you profile pic... that's just a joke. if you like Carlin but spew tent rhetoric... something went wrong in your life. do a Carlin binge and rethink your position.
@@wartgin exactly. give someone an opportunity to get out of survival mode and into a stable enough position to grow and .. woah ... all of a sudden... they can start growing roots and be fruitful.
There was a time when Legal Mexican workers were allow to work in the United States. These workers were seasonal workers. They did the jobs which most American don't want to do. Once the season was over, the Mexican workers return home back to Mexico. Than one day, a politician who was desperate to get re-elect began to claim that many of the season workers were Illegal immigrants. While Illegal immigrants were a problem, this politician and others claim that a large part of the legal workers were illegal immigrants.
@@rgreed20081 I don't want the Bracero Program to be reinstated. These legal seasonal workers were not housed in decent shelter, they were exposed to pesticides, there was child abuse through child labor, they had no medical insurance and faced discrimination. Their wages were very low and insufficient. After planting and picking our food for the profit of an American grower they were shipped back home having been treated badly for lousy pay. It was a bad program.
Thank your for your informative and helpful insights! It certainly sheds light on the presenter’s data “Immigration is good for America (because we know how to exploit human beings while clearly distinguishing between modern immigration policies and the slavery policies of pre-antebellum Southern plantations).”
Not illegal imagrents, ones that come here the legal ways. Tell our Government what you are trying to say here. They are handing out our money like crazy. They get more food stamps and cash then our legal Americans
I love how the “progressive” argument for immigration is that we essentially need them to work peasant jobs for low wages that Americans don’t want to work…. So basically an argument for legalized slavery 😂😂😂
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo That was then, it's like everyone tries to pull that out of their ass. Now it's crippling this nation, any country can only handle so much drain on it's finances, the United States can't solve the problem of every other country in the world.
@@WalterStanley-zf6loIf you're The history buff you should know that this type of immigration causes societal collapse in almost ninety five percent of the times that it is occurred.
Without immigration, the US population would not be growing, and the population would just keep on getting older on average. We absolutely depend on immigration. Trump has stated that he would stop ALL immigration, other than from so-called "good" countries - his words, not mine; playing to American xenophobia and racism, cynically aware that there are many among us who feel this way. Don't fall for it. Be better.
@@nadominhoca Nobody knows the actual numbers, first of all. Second, I don't believe you know what any of those President's policies are. For example, more immigrants were turned back at the border when Obama was President than under Trump.
The number of immigrants from these "good" countries aren't enough to make a dent in the requirements. And I strongly suspect these numbers would drop under a fascist administration.
The need for endless growth is one of the oldest capitalist selling points... It's not necessary. And even if it were, growth would not be problem if our wmen went back to being mothers and wives instead of boss babes.
Using the contributions of legal immigrates to justify the current illegal immigration is both specious and dangerous. They are unvetted and their purpose for entering the country is unknown. That is all anyone needs to know to understand the threat.
Prof. Reich, I love that you continue to bring to light the issues that A LOT of parties would prefer stay in the dark ~ with THEIR explanations that we are supposed to "swallow." Keep bringing us your observations! Thank you. In a country only 248 years old, at some point, we were all immigrants.
Ultimately, we are all African immigrants. The "natives" of North America, or whatever you want to call them, have been here for ten to fifteen thousand years. Ask them what they think of immigrants. They didn't call it a Ghost Dance for nothing. We are the most intelligent creatures to have ever lived on this planet. Start acting like it before it's all destroyed.
California has the largest immigrant population not only by total population but also per capita. California also generates more GDP than any other state and is the 5th largest economy in the world exceeding Russia even before the war started. This isn't a coincidence. Fact: Immigrants have made California extremely prosperous.
I only have one question about immigration / emigration: Which country would you rather be? 1) The country everyone wants to emigrate from. 2) The country everyone wants to immigrate to. My Momma always had a way of explaining things so as I could understand.
Facts are there that a country built on immigration has made this country the best in the world , racism has been in america since it's inception and it all stems from British behavior , the old wasp ways , it's still there
@@Rhythmicons yeah, iraq,japan are "champions" of immigration right Smfh These comments are the ONLY reason i worry about immigration It seems we're moving alot of ppl IN, that actually hate us basically because of the color of our skin and what religion we follow🤷♂️
@@bobchris9423 I think your assessment is more ideological than factual. Many folks from Latin America are moving OUT and the vast majority of them are Christian. But nice try with the white christian victimization spiel.
When I was in high school my girlfriend's dad owned 3 liquor stores. 2 in town and one in the next town over. He had a nice house and drove nice cars. Now in my state there is one Indian American "businessman" named Jay Patel that has bought up about 400 liquor stores one at a time following his shady illegal business model. He pays cash to buy out the liquor stores and he instantly fires the leftover staff and he brings illegal immigrants in from India and trains them on how to run a liquor store. He makes his staff work 10 hours per day 7 days a week and pays them less than minimum wage with no time and a half for overtime. Basically he is running a human trafficking ring in the state. Not sure which corrupt politicians are allowing this to happen (you didn't hear it from me but I suspect that Robert Kraft owner of the New England Patriot's has something to do with it) but because this Patel guy gets away with trafficking about 1000 illegal Indian immigrants and because any legit business could never compete with his low prices it is no longer possible for people to run legit Liquor stored in my state. So there are no more family run liquor stores in my state, just one Indian guy probably worth over 100 million bucks now building his gigantic wealth on the backs of his fellow countrymen that he traffics and exploits. The problem is bigger than you think, this is just one state and one industry, it's also hotels, motels, food packaging companies, all of construction and landscaping, grocery, small retail, gas stations, smoke shops, restaurants, beauty salons you name it. There must be 50 million undocumented illegal immigrants working under the table, not paying any taxes and sending half of their earning back to their family in some other country. The only way to get rid of illegal immigration is to crack down on human labor trafficking and to shut down any business that hires them and exploits them. If you stop feeding the squirrels they will eventually stop coming away. If you don't have a problem with illegal immigration in American then I say to you that you don't have a problem with human trafficking and slave labor. It is wrong both morally and fiscally. I'm a Democrat and I get it, why don't you?
@@philosotree5876 I believe the suggestion being assumed here is that immigrants aren't capable of doing anything other than low-skill labor or crop harvesting. I'm not assuming that your statement implies that, but I can see where one might come to that conclusion.
Or it could be that Americans are going to COLLEGE.. despite the high tuitions.. Americans do go to college. Now it might not be a big thing in your country or wherever you're from.. but it's the American dream to go to college and the American thing to do ..sooooo yeah.. you make sense of what you said.. no American wants a low paying job 😂😂😅😅😮
The immigrants aint the problem, the USA system IS. instead of paying us more, instead of improving work conditions, and giving us a tiny bit of credit for all the work we been doing for Decades in harsh conditions , we are forced to train our own replacements so legal slavery can continue to benefit large farming institutions while driving local wages down and excluding the locals in what we been keeping afloat for years. Immigrants aint the problem how they are used against us is.
2:48 and wouldn't those jobs becoming better paying if labor had more leverage instead of being filled by a constant flow of desperate people willing to be exploited? Just a thought.
If you listen to the Trump camp, our borders are so porous that it's amazing there's a single square inch of unoccupied land in this country. Because they're lying assholes. Any reform needs to be proper and modernized. The current system is built from assorted laws passed over time and is clunky as hell.
@@intheknow7659 YB a dork? Trump hires foreigners, some illegally=fact. He marries them, too! Anchor wife to bring the commie family over. But he cheats on them - so, all good. :)
.I live in WA State and the local LEGAL migrants and Local American Citizens are no longer being hired by these large farming Institutions. Large Farmers are no longer putting up adds, hiring events, taking Apps, they Displacing the local people to buss in huge amounts of foreign Cheap labors, they use temp agencies , government agencies to supply workers and ten of thousands of locals are NO longer needed or hired because new wave of 'legal" slaves coming in. Plus they expect us to Train these foreign Spanish speakers that don't know our standards and work ethics. we training our own replacements that bring wages down here locally not up . Seasonal work is no longer being offered to the hard working people (mexicans) that kept them afloat for decades. SAD
In The Dalles, Oregon, every year cherries go unpicked because of a shortage off cherry-pickers, much to the grim frustration of the orchard owners. So, would you be willing to help the orchard owners out by devoting a month or two to picking cherries? And...when you are old and feeble, living in a nursing home, who will be there to wipe your butt? An American citizen? Not likely. You'll just have to get used to having a shit-smeared butt, your tender skin inflamed and infected.. Oh, well.
@zeitgeist5134 the Dallas is unique u have a Damm and Riger access for import export to ocean. I notice ur either affluent or the opposite but that's what se strive for to contribute and add to community not bring other countries bad habits. Love the Dallas god bless
This country was founded on the principle of migration. If that principle didn't exist, the US simply wouldn't be a thing at all. What I meant by "founded on the principle of migration" is that the Native Americans had no part in the creation of the 13 English Colonies, in fact they were shunned away, and still bear that scar to this day.
That statement is ignorant. How many generations have been born in this country? Did they ask for never ending immigration which always feeds the rich. We didn’t keep tabs on the Godless corporatists and now the citizens suffer again with illegal immigrant insanity.....
In a broad sense legal immigration is good but what we've had since 1996 is total non enforcement of immigration law leading to an overwhelming tidal wave of unchecked illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and work visa abusers. This has put a massive strain on local state and federal resources. It has also increased crime. I'm not saying illegal immigrants commit more crime than non immigrants but just saying more people leads to more crime. Illegal immigration also leads to stagnating wages for low wage workers and also many others. The low wage jobs they take stay low wage because of illegal immigrants. This has a ripple effect that keeps the wage floor low which keeps wages from rising in other income groups Cheap immigrant labor is a boon only for the corporate establishment elite. I love how the founder of Home Depot goes on Fox news and brags about how he's a self made billionaire. His empire wouldn't exist without the flood of immigrants that came in between 1996 and 2006 which led too excessive overbuilding and suburban sprawl. The most infuriating ommision by Reich in this video is the fact that 10,000 illegals come into this country every day. Thats 300,000 a month, and way over 3 million a year. Let's just enforce the laws we have and retain some semblance of sovereignty over our boarders.
Rich people and homeowners want slave labor since they pride themselves on being as cheap as possible. They don’t care nor respect skilled laborers right to a good wage and their skill level. Greed to the max that the rest of us subsidize via welfare to supplement under the table slave wages.
First of all, the US is experiencing aging labor force, many Americans are retiring or too old to do their jobs efficiently. Second, there are many harsh/unpleasant jobs that most US citizens don't want, e.g. farming, meat processing, construction, janitorial, manufacturing, oil refinery, caretaking, garbage disposal, sewage maintenance, etc. Those Republicans are either extremely ignorant about the real work situation in the US, or they are lying. Without new immigrants, the US will be in a lot of trouble, many sectors will be devastated.
And if the pay only needs to be $7/hr, why the heck would they pay an American a living wage, ever? "Black jobs" are any people jobs. So are "Hispanican jobs." They just refuse to pay up, bc yachts and being greedy are more important.
I am pro-immigration. We need it for job coverage, for prosperity, and to counterbalance our 1.64 fertility rate. I'm just of the mind that we should have LEGAL immigration.
@@harveygirl29 And that pathway should start the way it did on Ellis Island. Get permission, enter legally, get registered. Follow the laws of the land you seek to join.
@@oddish4352 plenty illegals came through ellis Island you just have a whitewashed memory of ellis island based on public schoolbook propaganda and childrens movies. As the video acknowledges our policies as to how easily immigrants can move into the society should be changing towards more free movement (dont freak out fantasizing about rampant bombings school shootings and bad customer service at the hand of bloodthirsty " immigrants ") as they have always increased the value of our country in particular. Ellis island brought over mobs of violent gangs and many individual petty criminals as well as world class artists and their children often went both directions as 2nd gen immigrants thats ALWAYS been the case.
Mass migration is the single most important reason behind the rise of fascist ideology in the west. If you want more immigration, you are enabling Trump. Scolding voters for opposing mass migration is not going to help defeat fascism.
... um ... what? can you explain this? is this some doublespeak kind of thing... blaming the victim for the abuse? bigots are the reason for fascists in the west, white-christian-nationalism is a HUGE part of the current fascism ( not to mention capitalism ) what you said makes no sense.
@@emilyfeagin2673 i wish that was true... but... that's just not the case with this brand of fasc. we need something a bit more potent.... the last time we had to do a tour in Europe to clean out the fasc.. and that was only a treatment, not a cure. ( and that tour brought a new level of ego to the "heroes" that has it's own issues.)
Robert Reich is not a journalist. He's an Economist who has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January 2006. He has also held many public positions as an economist in several administrations. He actually knows what he's talking about.
@@americanablues I know very well who Mr.Reich is. I have followed his career and have much respect and admiration for him. Hopefully someone who doesn't know who he is will read your post and develop an appreciation for him as well.
@@ecezar7297 Did you read my comment??? I didn't say ANYthing about immigrants. In my statement, I was literally talking about the press, like the short clip of FAUX News and their ilk. Try not to read something into my statement that simply isn't there.
I love you Bob, but NO- we need HIGHER WAGES, not more laborers! The last 60 years have been a bloodbath for unions and laborers generally, because an endless supply of slaves has kept our wages artificially suppressed.
But surely you see that the fundamental issue there lies with the employers, not immigrants? There's nothing obligating them to pay people less because there are a lot immigrants, and their own pay isn't based on some illusionary "market value", so why should anyone else's? Besides, you know what's going to happen if they lose their endless supply of slaves. The public is going to be blamed for the "labor shortage", "nobody wants to work anymore" and all that, and they're going lobby with the government to lower/get rid of the minimum wage and requiring the unemployed to work even if it's for effectively nothing. And because the public voted for a government based on misattributing their problems to migration, that government is going to do it, too. Meanwhile, illegal immigration will only increase, because companies themselves will be trying to get them to come, which they'll get away with because of their cushy relationship with the government. Of course, by then undocumented immigrants will have even fewer rights than they do now, making them all the more easy to exploit and underpay.
Americans were told to refrain from working with hands and to go to college , starting in the 1980's . This advice came through public schools. No one asked "who's going to do the work " .
@@mikegoetz3184 I went to college, but never worked in a profession that required it. Still, it gives you the tools to be a critical thinker (if one concentrates on general studies).
@@davidcobb464I never went to college and I’m a critical thinker. When my kids ask how I did so well without going to college I told them the to most important things to have is good reading skills and common sense.
@@davidcobb464 I believe too many have been indoctrinated though , common sense has evaporated. Maybe schools should stick to academics , my wife is a teacher and I read her NEA quarterlies and are quite often appalled by their articles .
@@mikegoetz3184 DEI is not a Republican or Democratic thing. It is a business thing. Colleges look at a photo of an integrated school and tell the staff "make it look like that."
Nope, because MAGA has no problem with LEGAL immigrants. Do you really want people to enter the country with criminal records? Be honest, and think independently for a change.
certainly that was what happened to the Indigenous peoples which were here on Turtle Island before anyone else was.....genocide was the answer that colonial settlements made when they crossed the Atlantic Ocean...to take the indigenous peoples land, water etc...taking indigenous children away from their families and sent to horrible "boarding schools"......and later the slavery of the people brought over from Africa and ..check that out~~~~~~~~so now...we are a melting pot of many different people from many different places around the world....without immigration who will plant and gather the foods in the fields...who will work in the meat packing plants...who will drive your taxi....who will serve you dinner in a restaurant....on and on and on..who will teach your children...will you not be treated by a doctor or nurse that looks different from you?...what I see destroying the US is not immigrants but those with insane wealth...they are the ones who have rigged the game...against the middle class and the lower middle class right down to grinding poverty..... they are the ones who use their wealth to influence the Supreme Court and the US Congress Reps and Senators...pull back the veil....take a look...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_colonial_history_of_the_United_States#:~:text=Puritan%20New%20England%2C%20Virginia%2C%20Spanish,war%20and%20acquire%20the%20slaves.
@@tonyreynolds2328 heres google AI to educate you ya lazy sob: The Migration Period The Migration Period (300-600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a time of large-scale migration that led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Huns drove many populations into the empire, and the Goths sought shelter from the Huns in Roman territory. The Romans' traditional approach to migration was to break up tribes into smaller groups, force them to surrender their weapons, and renounce loyalty to their leaders. The fall of the Roman Empire The mismanagement of the Goth refugee crisis is considered to be a major factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire. The Late Antique Little Ice Age was another factor, as it occurred when Rome was already politically fragmented and materially depleted.
Immigration is good when documented but not illegally. They ate not undocumented citizens. They are undocumented aliens from other countries and our government does not who they are or where they are. The U S citizen is know and also kept tracked by birth certificates,passports,drivers license and registration. Also the U S citizen is tracked or records kept every time he or she get on a airplane. If a U S citizen breaks the law he or she can not flee to the border to escape the law and by the way when a illegally alien comes in to the U S he or she is breaking the LAW! Thank you and good night!
More people working for less money is wonderful for struggling Americans most of all. They can learn to work for less money while owning fewer things like our beautiful friends from Africa and South of the Rio Grande.
Easy to say when you're a professional politician. I've seen plenty of hard-to-regulate industries go from middle class to subsistance class wages due to the lower of cost of immigrant labour. Great for the wealthy though, lots of cheap labour.
@@WalterStanley-zf6lo It does. What makes no sense is make up lies about migrants being an incredible economic bonus when the only thing they do is lower wages & enrich the rich
@@bertog1217 Exactly 💯. If we give them citizenship then tada. So ok say what he says is true. Still, they pay rent to someone. They buy things from places. They get no government funds. So at WORSE they are working and living. That's it. That's fine. I know some US born who get payed under the table AND get benefits. Now that is what people should be looking at.
Once upon a time, 100 years ago, you were correct. Immigrants from China built the railroads. The railroads hauled the coal, steel, and other manufactured goods that the Eastern European immigrants mined and built. But thanks to our government, those jobs have gone overseas. The only "jobs" for "immigrants" are menial service jobs, like landscaping and home improvement. You think that it's fun watching grown men fistfight over mowing a yard? I don't. We didn't have enough good paying manufacturing jobs before the current flood, and there's certainly no rush of companies moving production jobs here from abroad. People who don't know squat like to tout automation, but the truth is that foreign factories full of people can make it cheaper than your machines can make it.
So important to understand this - we NEED immigrants! They make this country BETTER because they provide the diversity that makes us a great place to live!
@@CarlGerhardt1 Why are you blaming the immigrants? Why couldn't you just use that anger of yours and take it out on the elites who are the real culprits of driving down your hard earned check?
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@@user-hd1kl5my8r try again, can't stand trump and don't watch Fox, though I gather from all the comments that they are closer to the truth than left-wing media.
We need to acknowledge that Slaves and Indigenous (Native Americans) persons are the Americans. Indigenous folks are the caretakers of this land we call America. And, that America was born out of the bloodshed of Indigenous persons and slave labor. Indeed, this country relied on the economy of slave labor! Likewise, the first immigrants were the colonialist's obviously. THIS IS WHERE THIS DISCUSSION STARTS. ALL DISCUSSION REGARDING AMERICA HISTORY STARTS HERE.
Of course we need immigrants, but allowing millions in at once like in France, Germany and Canada is a disaster. There should be checks and balances and yearly quotas that don't turn areas of a country into ethnic ghettoes. That is not good for the country.
As an immigrant (and having many friends who are), I couldn't agree more! However, Republicans don't wamt to hear this because they would need to admit that they were wrong!
Reich's point, while true enough, does not discuss the real point here: we need an immigration system that permits immigration but does so lawfully and without creating wage slaves of the persons who come in through job-controlled programs like H1B.
The entire H1B Visa program needs overhauled and reduced significantly because it suppresses wages of skilled US workers the same way offshoring impacts the workforce. It should only be used to fill jobs requiring a masters or doctorate degree.
I live in a community thats at least 40% immigrant. The big problem is that they send their money “home” instead of investing it into the community. This town has tanked in the past 15 years.
@@jdizzle22396 my point is no one accounts for the reality that everyone at some point was an immigrant. All anyone cares about is their problems right now and no pride in history that got us here. We certainly have not learned anything from the past.
Mr. Reich, I am a liberal Democrat and have read and agreed with your commentary for many years. But as a past union organizer in low paid service industries, I am concerned about the effects of the large percentage of immigrant workers in these industries. In my experience these workers are generally afraid to vote for unions in certification elections. Do you think with the current rate of undocumented workers flowing into this country, it will ever be possible to increase the unionization rate of our workforce enough to reduce our socioeconomic inequality back to what it was in the 1970s?
Professor Bob forgot about the history of scabs and replacing workers that want higher wages, regardless of ethnicity or nationality. We have more homeless than ever before, and he does not admit our unemployment numbers have been fudged for years, since it does not include those of us blacklisted and disabled and never used unemployment, yes we exist in the millions. They also dont like to talk about that half the population gave up on voting, not because we are lazy or cant do anything, but because for millions the system does not allow us to have a living wage; due to the inflated cost of living. The MIC likes it this way.
This isn’t entirely true, The only reason we need immigration is because our society has failed and now purely out of necessity we look to increase our population to help feed the machine but ultimately we just foster higher crime rates homelessness and ultimately social frustration that leads to civil unrest which becomes far more dangerous and volatile the more u increase the population without building the infrastructure first to accomodate it.
@ghostlight69420 if it's true, I understand we are importing from Australia and India, for example at prices which undercut our own farmers, utterly ridiculous situation.
@@ghostlight69420 This particular trade “deal” was purely to justify brexit and of course ended up benefitting those two countries to UK Farmer’s detriment.
Immigration has always happened, cultures have always changed, and Immigration has always been the backbone of this country, and what it was founded on. It's so demoralizing to see people give into ignorance, hate, and irrational fear about the "other", who's often blamed/scapegoated for societal problems by demagogues who cause the problems and keep them festering.
@@emilyfeagin2673 Ya, I absolutely agree. I strongly believe a lack of education, teaching empathy, and exposure to people with differences from ourselves is a large part of why we're still dealing with all this ignorance, hate, and irrational fear.
Thank you! Took the words out of my mouth. The xenophobia from some members of the majority always consume media to fear and terrorize those who are considered "other."
We are immigrants and certainly supported the of this country from within as well as abroad. Taught thousands of students or represented in trade missions including the first to co communistic China in 1978
Sir, I absolutely agree with your lecture…however, you give some statistics to strengthen the argument. I want to defend this lecture too. Anecdotally, I have witnessed the wonderful contribution of immigrants in Texas and Tennessee. Mexicans remodeled my little home. They were great, hard working, skilled workers. I want to defend their rights, their excellent work ethic, their will and ability to continue. It would help if you would include some kind of bibliography, something we might offer to back up these statistics, for when in our debate we might have a better foundation.
I love your videos. We get so much bull about the reasons for American decline. I'm so glad you hear your fact-based narrative instead of the fearmongering lies and nationalist rhetoric.
Then we make it easier to legally immigrate so that the traffickers can't function. The majority of 'illegal' immigrants come here on visas and then stay here. Is that trafficking?
I live in a border state and lived in a different one before it. This time extremely close and crime is not a big deal! However, not a lot of English spoken where as if you cross into Mexico their English is great. Don't believe everything you hear from MAGATS or News on TV people. They want a better life and businesses can't fill jobs!
Robert is arguing- disingenuously- for unfettered capitalism and resource consumption, and the overall benefits discussed are to government, not the people. In making his points, he ultimately argues (indirectly) against an american identity, cultural cohesion and social security - but he couldn't get away with saying that so directly. At a time of growing inequality, lower living standards, and a skyrocketing divide between the richest and poorest, Robert wants to fragment society even further, diverting energy and resources from focusing on existing and pressing issues, and almost guaranteeing the possibility of even more social instability. In presenting his agenda, did he focus on a single disadvantage or negative? Conveniently, he did not, and instead framed any challenge to his ideas as fearmongering.
What "American identity" is more American than an immigrant family building a better life for their children than they could have had in the nation they left? The story of modern America is quite literally the story of immigration. But that isn't what you mean, is it? By "American identity" you don't mean America at all; you mean white Christians. It's a dog whistle.
my family and I are first generation immigrants, and personally, even and through my difficulties, aside from the support from the covid, I have never asked nor received any government benefits
There is nothing wrong with receiving government benefits. If people need government help at certain stages in their life e.g. old age, they should apply for it. It is there to make life workable because not everyone can be a highly successful rich person.
@@ralphacosta3891 You guys have never been to a doctor or a hospital? You guys have never gone to school? You guys have never drank the clean water or walked along the safe sidewalk. Never took a crap and benefited from a clean sewar system? Never drove on a highway and benefited from a maintained highway system, never took a train or visited a state park or national park? Who do you think pays for all of that stuff that you wouldn't have had unless you illegally immigrated into this county?
