Who benefits from immigration bans?
By Paul D’Amato | March 31, 2006
IN THE global capitalist economy, corporations are constantly pushing for a virtually borderless world market when it comes to investment, taxation and tariffs.
But whereas capital is relatively free to cross borders, labor is not. Here we find myriad legal restrictions on the movement of human beings across borders.
These restrictions, however, do not exist to prevent the movement of people across borders so much as to control and regulate it. For the tiny minority of capitalists, the key question is how to ensure an abundant and cheap labor supply, and how to restrict it in periods when they don’t need it.
See full analysis at:
http://www.socialistworker.org/2006-1/582/582_09_Immigration.shtml