Immigration thoughts 4th of July (some old)

I am a 3rd generation american, at least I think I have that right. My grandpa immigrated to America at age 18 from Sicily and my grandma was daughter of Italian immigrants. She was born in New York. On my Scottish/ Irish side, my family came some time after the civil war. MY Irish ancestors came over on a ship called the Ethiopia in 1877, in fact on APril 11th which is my birthday. I don't know the dates by heart. Anyways there was alot of talk surrounding Immigration a few years ago. I am all for the 14th Amendment in which people born here are citizens. However, i don't think that is enough to deal with the problems presented to us through capitalisms fallability. I think that political integration between nations can work to solve the problem of a hierarchy of nationalities throughout the world, and particualrly in America. There are people who don't even enjoy the status of refugee or legalized immigrant status in America or in other countries also. This has the effect of creating a permanent underclass throughout the world where people don't have rights and can be exploited. Look for instance at non-citizens workers working the food supply in America. These people are basically making the economy go, but should we really rely on exploitation to run an economy. Should politicians be boasting about this as leaders of countries? These people should have all the benefits of citizenship and protections supplied with it. I don't understand why average working class people in this country (America) aren't for rasing the status of those in the underclass of America. By allowing people to be exploited we are actually demeaning our own standing in the economy and on the political front. Most importantly though is that it is just plain awful and wrong to run your economy on the backs of exploited people jusdt as slavery was It feels like there is an effort to create inflation so that people won't support ending the slave like status of farm workers or food production workers as am example. But if there really is a latent benevolence to the Constitution, then we really need to heed the call to elimante the underclass status of non-citizens. ANd this is just a start. Once you go down that road the glaring evil of exploitation in the American empire presents itself. So I'd say people should not be in cages, which they shouldn't but they should be moving freely and equally. I agree with Libertarians that borders should be open, but recognize that probably Libertarians are connected to monied interest or industrial interest that would like a surplus labor pool in the U.S, which is why im for international integrated citizenship rather than just work visas. ----OLder Thoughts on Immigration below:---- I had a conversation in college that I vaguely remember with an anti illegal immigration proponent in which I stated that immigrants were basically invited into the country do to the fact that the walls just push people into the desert but let them in. The point I was making is that people shouldn't be penalized for doing what society wants them to do and should be given citizenship. I was responding to rhetoric which claimed people snuck into the country. This conversation is some basis for counter intelligence harassment and what Trump FBI conspiracy is based on. The anti illegal immigration proponent I had that conversation with later became a police officer and now I get misrepresented in media as Donald Trump , Steve King and Ralph Northam as a war on my identity, which is a human right violation. The border is a reflection of the world and the crisis is poverty and empire. It's not "immigration problem" in U.S along southern border it is capitalism and empire problem. People's needs aare not being met by the political system. The land that was theirs is now under this domain in system which always sought to exploit and subdue the rather than include equally. There have been genocides committed against central americans more recently than the Jewish Holocaust, and now they are being imprisoned in camps. Yet, somehow this is "offensive" to call these concentration camps? What's crazy to me is all the propaganda attached to the immigration issue or debate. Lines like people are coming to America because "America is the most prosperous country in the history of the world" or people are coming to America because "America is a beacon for the world" or people are coming to America because "America is the greatest country in the history of the world." And obviously it is prosperous, has positive qualities and has qualities better than that which people are leaving, but it is a bit more complex why people are leaving and coming. And how do you determine the 'best country in the history of the world?' There's probably qualities in countries that people are leaving that are better than America and qualities that are worse. Right wing appeal to sensational crimes committed by individuals to bolster anti immigrant policies is a bit like saying Loreena Bobbit chopped off that man's genitals so therefore we should get rid of all women in society. It is that idiotic and psychopathic. AMerica is a complex place and I think it's ok to admit to its complexities. So while it is nice to show pictures of the Statue of Liberty and talk about welcoming poor people into America while it offers opportunity, relative freedom (or used to attempt to) and hope to people, it feeds off of them as well. I think it is ok to also state that America has a history in which it likes to exploit immigrants, so each generation lives off the backs of new immigrants as they rise. The most common example is to describe how we eat food, which is largely picked by immigrants making small wages, which keeps food prices down. That's the modern example. Nicole Wallce was on TV in April 0f 2019 and stated that Bush was great for immigrants because he had compassion. Bush created ICE, but the Bush rehabilitation project otherwise known as the Trump Presidency is alive and well. There was a Congressional hearing on the border in April of 2019 and a general i think was the speaker and said that pushing people into the desert was used as a deterrent and was 'working.' Besides meaning that the border wall is stupid and fencing as well, there's numerous people who have argued for some time that this is a modern day middle passage. That we are weeding out the strong, who survive the desert and the weak who can't make the trip. I think that this is a correct comparison. The middle passage, if you don't know, is what we call the slave journey on slave ships, where the slave masters would perform this type of weeding out exercises in cruel ways.