Ruling Class Won’t Provide Housing or Healthcare
So They Send Immigrants to Gitmo
January 29 Trump Signed into Law
“The Riley Laken Act” that gives federal police (“ICE”) greater power to detain, deport and jail immigrants. The bill arrived on Trump’s desk with the support of 58 Democratic members of Congress. Trump further ordered construction of a new prison at the U.S. military base in Cuba (Guantanamo or “Gitmo”) to jail the immigrants, stating that “some of them are so bad, we don’t even trust other countries to hold them.”1
Fear as a Tool of the Ruling Class
Trump and his Democratic partners are attempting to whip up fear of immigrants as a tool for ruling a country with skyrocketing rent, homelessness, and healthcare that isn’t working. The ruling class and its political leaders have other priorities, for instance sending weapons to Israel and funding artificial intelligence projects that hurt the working-class, those of us who must work for a living.
Working-Class Immigration
The working-class is an international class that emigrates when forced to do so. During the potato famine Irish workers left for America’s factories, farms and building trades. To cultivate and harvest the cotton that fueled American industrialization, slave traders stole human beings from Africa to work on their plantations.2 Today, most of the immigrants on the Southern border are workers fleeing violence and economic collapse created by U.S. foreign policy, the drug trade, and human trafficking. By defending the political and social rights of these immigrant workers, we defend ourselves and and our collective future.
Workers of the World Unite !
International cooperation with all workers is fundamental to building the political power we need solve our problems, including affordable housing and healthcare. Just as we depend economically on a global economy, our political path to power depends on international cooperation with workers from all countries.
“(The) revolutionary class of workers is arising everywhere around the world. Global unity with and among those most impacted by the current crisis is central to the freedom of humanity the world over. We must make every effort to unite in global struggles.”3
Footnotes
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/29/guantanamo-cuba-el-salvador-deportations/
- Bekert, S. 2014 Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Penguin, New York.
- https://lrna.org/program-m/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YCV3iIIHFU
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