over 4,000 documented deaths have occurred in the boarder region since 1994 because of cross border economic warfare against the poor and then the subsequent militarization of the boarder... By comparison under 100 died attempting to cross the Berlin wall.
Direct actions always risk escalating abuses by the state. But this must be balanced against the injustice that the state & corporations are perpetrating.
People are being attacked and killed by the militarization of the boarder every day in this country!. How you can not see that as "atrocious conditions" is beyond me.
This goes hand in hand with the devastation NAFTA has wrecked on the poor people of Mexico and is the key part in creating these atrocious conditions. US corporations have pushed millions into starving desperation in economic warfare flooding their markets with US-agro subsidized crops, pushing people from their lands so corporations can extract the resources, eliminating local industry with cheep foreign goods, and subquent downward push on labor wages as the corporate maquiladoras become the only game in town. Free from traditional organized labor constraints in a global marketplace added with the complicity of a corrupt state supported by transnational trade agreements that have near zero human or environmental conditions a very ugly picture emerges.
In this context in which traditional strugles for improvement of labor conditions is near impossible to sustain so naturally we have an influx of migrants...we must stand in solidarity to build a better world ;) these downward pushes on labor rights will continue to spill over regardless of how high and wide of a wall is built for people while capital flows without constraints for human rights.
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over 4,000 documented deaths have occurred in the boarder region since 1994 because of cross border economic warfare against the poor and then the subsequent militarization of the boarder... By comparison under 100 died attempting to cross the Berlin wall.
Direct actions always risk escalating abuses by the state. But this must be balanced against the injustice that the state & corporations are perpetrating.
People are being attacked and killed by the militarization of the boarder every day in this country!. How you can not see that as "atrocious conditions" is beyond me.
This goes hand in hand with the devastation NAFTA has wrecked on the poor people of Mexico and is the key part in creating these atrocious conditions. US corporations have pushed millions into starving desperation in economic warfare flooding their markets with US-agro subsidized crops, pushing people from their lands so corporations can extract the resources, eliminating local industry with cheep foreign goods, and subquent downward push on labor wages as the corporate maquiladoras become the only game in town. Free from traditional organized labor constraints in a global marketplace added with the complicity of a corrupt state supported by transnational trade agreements that have near zero human or environmental conditions a very ugly picture emerges.
In this context in which traditional strugles for improvement of labor conditions is near impossible to sustain so naturally we have an influx of migrants...we must stand in solidarity to build a better world ;) these downward pushes on labor rights will continue to spill over regardless of how high and wide of a wall is built for people while capital flows without constraints for human rights.