Or: Shouldn’t immigration be good for capital?

I know they’d prefer for migrants to stay somewhere where their labor time is cheaper to make better use of unequal exchange, but how is it better to spend so many resources on turning away refugees and immigrants that are desperate to work for cheap, than to simply let them get exploited? What are the forces at play that make capitalists invest in border security so much? Is it simply to keep an implicit threat on the existing undocumented immigrant population to make them more precarious and more exploitable?

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This is insane do you have a source for it? I believe it could definitely be true but I would love to source it for all the libs I’m going to tell about it when they say that Biden has been good to immigrants

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https://colorlines.com/article/food-inc-shines-light-immigrant-labor-makes-99c-patty-melt-possible-video/

Here’s an article written about the relevant section. It was actually Smithfield pork in this particular instance. The union organizer trying to advocate for the immigrant workers discusses the company giving tips to ICE to raid their homes as a deal to keep them off the company floor.

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I just remembered it from watching food Inc a while back. I’ll skip around in it later to find the relevant clip again

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