Why are most of USA citizens against immigration if USA slave the rest of the world?

Question

I live in Brazil. Before globalization we had better jobs and better salaries. After globalization our salaries have decreased a lot
For a company in Brazil to be competitive internationally has to pay poor salary now and multinational companies exploit low cost labor. We were forced by American and European imperialism to accept globalization. Big American and European companies gain with globalization exploiting low wages outside USA and Europe.
Nobody likes to earn low wages. Then why American and European people complain about immigration if their big companies slave the rest of the world?
USA imposes globalization to the rest of the world.

Answer 1

You are SOOO right....Since NAFTA, the illegal immigration to US has exploded.....People in the rest of America, cannot afford to live off the slave wages, so they come here.....You have a very good concept of the REAL root of illegal immigration, good question....

Answer 2

Your question is patently false in its assertion that the USA enslaves anyone or that it imposes globalization on anyone. The World Trade Organization provides incentives for countries to develop, reduce trade barriers like tariffs, and liberalize their economies for the betterment of globalization. However, this organization, while funded in large part my western entities has cited the USA as violating some of its tenets with American farm subsidies.

More specifically on the topic of Brazil's economy, it has sucked long before anyone even knew what globalization was. Alternating hyperinflation and recessions with an ever-expanding gap between rich and poor is a domestic problem within Brazil. Blaming it on the USA, globalization, or any other force accomplishes nothing. Instead of blaming everyone else, try electing a politician who's not corrupt like Lula and does follow through on building a middle class.

Finally, globalization often means outsourcing of jobs from the USA to under-developed nations where labor is much cheaper. This outsourcing is often the part of globalization that Americans don't like even though they demand the resulting lower prices. These companies more often than not pay the local labor much more than they were making prior to their arrival even though it is pennies on the dollar to American workers. For example, $100 /month is nothing in the USA, but to impoverished people in Asia, that could easily feed a family. This is why the local peoples choose to work for these companies. Hence, paying volunteering workers higher wages than they previously earned cannot be considered slavery.

If your wages/salary has decreased, then I suspect your job has been outsourced to China or some other country that will do it for less, but certainly not the USA. If that is the case, then educate yourself, rise to a higher echelon of employment and earn more.

Answer 3

There's a few factors. It cannot be performed by way of too many older persons; they have got to paintings, so it is as much as the early life. The early life do not care due to the fact that they are too busy gambling PlayStation. The quandary could also be that the illegals have extra rights than us. I recall throughout the summer season, there have been the amnesty marches in California, and the illegals had been marching, swearing, urinating and burning flags, and the law enforcement officials might no longer do a factor. They simply sat and watched. I'm definite it isn't due to the fact that the officials do not just like the nation; why serve your nation if you do not find it irresistible? It's due to the fact that in the event that they did take movement, there are such a large amount of illegals, that the officials might be killed. People are petrified of protesting towards them. If a gigantic institution was once geared up to illustrate towards the illegals, I count on that it might paintings, however we cannot simply protest towards each and every unlawful, due to the fact that there are such a large amount of all over the place the nation. It could quit a couple of, however till states begin imposing federal legislation, unlawful immigration is probably not stopped.

Answer 4

Hello friend... most of us are not against immigration, we are for controlled immigration. If we open the door to unlimited immigration we will not have the housing, jobs or infrastructure to support everyone.

You may find it interesting to know that globalization has harmed a lot of american workers too. Before globalization our middle class (about 80% of the people in this country) had more job and they paid better than they do now.

You are 100% correct, big american and Euro countries really do gain mass fortunes off of the blood and sweat of the poor. This does not have so much to do with immigration as it does with Bush's economic policies. There has been a massive transfer of wealth going on these last few years, where about 1-5% of the americans are making massive fortunes and everyone else is either running in place or losing ground.

The good news is that after 8 years of George Bush in office, there isn't the slightest chance another republican will get elected. Our elections for senators and governors is coming up on Nov 7th and most people are expecting a shift from republican control to democratic... The presidential election is in 2008 and we will probably have a democratic president.

I think that better days for working folks are right around the corner.

Answer 5

I didn't know the United States had a military force in Brazil along with a surrogate government. If all you say is accurate, why did the Brazilian government, your government, agreed to the trade treaties? What imperialism? Isn't Brazil a democracy?

So, are you complaining about Brazil's economic situation or the US immigration policies? Most American fully accept legal immigration - those people that following the rules and arrive in this country legally, whether they are from Brazil or somewhere else. Thousands legally immigrate each year. The difficultiy arises with the people that refuse to accept the lawful procedure and feel they are entitled to be above the law imposed on others.

Answer 6

Globalization should INCREASE your salaries.

The reason your salaries went down has nothing to do with the USA. That is your country's propaganda. The US manufacturing sector was severely hit by globalization.

Essentially Asia undercut every other market as far as labor costs are concerned. One example is the wood trade.

In Brazil the wood mills have big modern machines, capable of stripping trees of bark and preparing them for saw mills or paper mills. These huge machines are modern marvels.

In China or India the trees are prepared by having people standing on the tree barefoot with long handles scrapers to strip the tree of bark. The job is slower and more labor intensive, but the cost of 20 Chinese people working 10 hour days with machetes is cheaper than the investment in more modern machines and the engineers to keep them running.

Globalization of markets should increase salaries by making Brazilian products available elsewhere. But in the current market, unless you are willing to compete price wise with China or India, they will underbid everyone. Your country is making the USA a scapegoat for Brazilian big business to make profits by cutting salaries.

Answer 7

Sorry, we were sold the same bill of goods, we are expected to get paid less and less because the Chinese get paid less than we do. Eventually I suppose there will be no desperate country on earth who is willing to sell its people to produce goods at a lower wage than anyone else. Its almost as if the huge corporations have their own country... a sort of 'UnitedWorld Of Business' with the rest of the world working for them. They do seem to be a law unto themselves and the rest of the world does not see the profits of their own labor. That includes the US and European peoples.

Answer 8

Because of fear other groups will take over, it's already taking place, the Hispanics and Asians will be the majority soon, that's the biggest fear, but all this has happened because of cheap labor, jobs oversees, companies outsourcing in India and China, Central America and Mexico. You are correct, they complain because they feel uneasy about people from other Countries taking over.

Answer 9

Americans are not against immigration. We are against ILLEGAL immigration. ILLEGALS are a security risk, and if too many immigrants come in at once, and choose to live only within their own communities, we lose the principle of assimilation which has worked so well to build us as a prosperous nation for almost 250 years. And we do not "slave" the rest of the world. All the pot-bellied dictators and socialist elitist idiots like chavez and castro do a great job of that just by calling us names.
If you want to come live in America, do it legally, and you will find out just how great this country is.
We feed and free the world.

Answer 10

I have nothing against Immigration , as I stated in a few of my questions .
I'm against Illegal immigration .
I did it the right way , and I'm proud of it .
I'm an American Citizen now ( March 2006 ) .
I don't have to deal with all the hostility , I'm a LEGAL immigrant .
I have a clear conscious .

Answer 11

look to your own government...globalization was not forced on you ...most third world countries beg for trade treaties...yes often to line the pockets of the rich in Brazil....but then they blame disparity on foreign companies so the government/powers that wanted it in the first place don't have to take the blame for the poor....look inside to fix your problem ..not blaming it on others..
BTW US is not against immigration, just illegal immigration