The riddle nobody has been able to solve, and this is historically true, is how a country or people or whatever is supposed to protect itself from competition from immigrants or whatever.
Here are the options:
1. Terrorize immigrants. This results in them working for cheaper in black markets and being the go-to source of labour for a lot of people.
Hence things like this.
2. Organize nativists into organize into exclusive unions and whatnot to spur "legitimate" labour hiring. Until someone goes over your heads to take all the extremely cheap and desperate labour to do
a grand project. Now your exclusive union is reduced to begging for shittier jobs in competition with the "other" that has been inadvertently made into something of a union.
3. Get really tough on immigration, get everyone on board, create an
Exclusion Act. Industrial capitalists just move their production to China, Mexico, or wherever else.
Now you can apply for a job in China!These things never work because you're trying to accomplish this stuff in the framework of global capitalism. You have the bourgeoisie, who can cross and dictate border policy as they wish, and you—who cannot. Why you think you can win in this rigged game is beyond me.
It's the economy, stupid.
Alis Volat Propriis; Tiocfaidh ár lá; Proletarier Aller Länder, Vereinigt Euch!