Who's really behind the New and Improved Iron Curtain

Why, we all will be, of course.

Avedon Carol points to that idiot George Will, proudly proclaiming the terrorists have won on immigration:

Sez the nazi apologist: "America, the only developed nation that shares a long -- 2,000-mile -- border with a Third World nation, could seal that border. East Germany showed how: walls, barbed wire, machine gun-toting border guards in towers, mine fields, large, irritable dogs. And we have modern technologies that East Germany never had: sophisticated sensors, unmanned surveillance drones, etc..."

Ain't it wonderful living in Amerika?

Carol replies: See, this is pretty simple stuff.

American companies relocate just south of the border, where they can pay people $60 a week instead of $60 a day. Mexicans move north to work in those places, where $60 a week is pretty good money. But it's still not so good, and if they just move north of the border, they can make a lot more - although, as illegals, they don't make as much as American workers make.

Except when employers north of the border know they can pay illegals crap and treat them like dirt, Americans no longer get those jobs. Not that they could afford to take them at those low rates. To add insult to injury, this also means that people who still try to hire workers at a decent wage find they can't compete with the criminals who illegally hire this cheap labor, so wages get driven down inside the US.

The corporatists love it, and the rest of us see our communities and our lives and our futures being destroyed. The way to stop all this is to go after the employers, not the immigrants. (Dumping NAFTA and CAFTA would also be a good start.) But you won't see that happening while these goniffs are in charge.

No, you won't, because where the Company and the Dominionists agree is on the creation of an industrial feudal economy out of the ashes of a democratic republic.

Thus, as Thom Hartman at Buzzflash points out, the whole immigration issue is being framed by the main$tream media in corporatist vs. racist arguments, while the real issue of the role of corporate responsibility and society is being studiously ignored.