It’s not evidence that it needed to be written. It’s evidence that it’s bankrupt Calling people who take internationalist solidarity, freedom of migration, and ending the exploitation of labor seriously a tool of the Kochs is garbage, even conspiratorial. (just say globalists!)
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No borders wasn’t a Reagan / neoliberal plot. Sanctuary movement was in response to his policies that made asylum difficult. Some of us in labor have always opposed labor nationalism. Read IWW on Chinese exclusion at the turn of the century. https://history.sfsu.edu/sites/default/files/EPF/1999_Jennifer%20Jung%20Hee%20Choi.pdf …
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Or it's a piece of claptrap that deliberately draws on right-wing talking points about immigration threatening wages (a lie) and misconstruing leftist calls for open borders with the Koch Brothers' scheme to acquire easily exploitable labour. One or the other really.
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Immigration does lower wages.. no one cared when it affected the working class, but it's obvious when you look at tech/developer wages. Big business love this bc it imports deflation (an endless workforce) from other countries, keeping wages stagnant while their profit margins

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Why do people not see that citizenship is literally the only thing of value that people w/o financial or political power have? Without citizenship, the world's elites would love a one-world govt where the "dirty masses" duke it out & compete. Welcome to Elysium
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i have my own agenda around this you might not share (as a former illegal immigrant) but nobody i've talked to has made a convincing case for how open borders can co-exist with Sanders-style economics. i think probing the contradiction nagle points out can only be healthy.
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Nagle picks up the torch
@SenSanders dropped to facilitate his White House run.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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And neatly explains why I believe that Democrat=Republican an Republican=Democrat.
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.Nagle makes some good points, but I have a problem, e.g., with this underlined bit--it is purely a straw man argument to claim that the "left" (and btw, not sure who she means here) opposes *all* limits on migration. https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/ …pic.twitter.com/ao4JoCQSd7
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I'm much further to the Left that Justice Democrats.pic.twitter.com/PY89mqpci3
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That's true. When people get upset about something that means you're right. Based and redpilled, brother.
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yeah but by whom?
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Not the pro Trump Bill Mitchell, right?
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