We tried Prop 187, Jim Crow, and Apartheid. They didn't work.
It's one thing for some Arab dictator city state sitting on a pile of oil to pay central asians and a few white engineers to build ski resorts in the desert, maybe that can work for awhile. It's another to get free democratic societies that have to actually bring out their popu…
We tried Prop 187, Jim Crow, and Apartheid. They didn't work.
It's one thing for some Arab dictator city state sitting on a pile of oil to pay central asians and a few white engineers to build ski resorts in the desert, maybe that can work for awhile. It's another to get free democratic societies that have to actually bring out their populations higher skills (you know, the ones generating the real global wealth at scale) to live under such conditions.
Jim Crow and Apartheid laws limited the mobility, personal & political rights of the people living in the country.
The guest worker arrangements are the same. They live in segregated dorms, have tightly controlled lives, and have no political voice.
Even if you could argue that this is good for them, living in the Jim Crow south was better than living in Africa, and people rarely went back to Africa in protest. Apartheid South Africa could keep the lights on and had a better run government. It doesn't matter, the developed world simply finds this arrangement of second class citizenry repugnant and unworkable, it always breaks down in the long run.
So we tried Jim Crow and Apartheid. We tried Prop 187 in CA. They didn't work. If the people are there eventually someone is going to make them citizens with rights, either welfare, voting, or both.
We tried Prop 187, Jim Crow, and Apartheid. They didn't work.
It's one thing for some Arab dictator city state sitting on a pile of oil to pay central asians and a few white engineers to build ski resorts in the desert, maybe that can work for awhile. It's another to get free democratic societies that have to actually bring out their populations higher skills (you know, the ones generating the real global wealth at scale) to live under such conditions.
What do Jim Crow laws and apartheid etc have to do with a guest worker programme?
What are you trying to imply? Just spell it out.
Jim Crow and Apartheid laws limited the mobility, personal & political rights of the people living in the country.
The guest worker arrangements are the same. They live in segregated dorms, have tightly controlled lives, and have no political voice.
Even if you could argue that this is good for them, living in the Jim Crow south was better than living in Africa, and people rarely went back to Africa in protest. Apartheid South Africa could keep the lights on and had a better run government. It doesn't matter, the developed world simply finds this arrangement of second class citizenry repugnant and unworkable, it always breaks down in the long run.
So we tried Jim Crow and Apartheid. We tried Prop 187 in CA. They didn't work. If the people are there eventually someone is going to make them citizens with rights, either welfare, voting, or both.