After President Vincente Fox’s countless attempts to make a deal with the Bush administration to legalize and legitimize the migrant workers who risk their lives to cross the border in order to send money back to their families – the country’s second greatest source of income, after oil, has finally made a little bit of progress with this volatile issue. Bush has made concessions to acknowledge these ‘illegal aliens,’ responsible for most of the shit jobs in the majority of U.S. corporations, who rely on them completely as an underpaid and exploitable work force.
The foreign workers will be given Visas that will be renewable every three years, but they will not be given citizenship, or any other considerable benefits beyond not getting arrested and deported for doing the work that they were hired to do by the companies for which they are practically indentured servants anyway. Bush can certainly milk this for all it is worth, making the Mexican-American youth look at him like he is the Second Coming of Morrisey, but this is just to benefit the big businesses that have suffered because of the need to adhere to labor laws and the inability to abuse their undocumented workers. Whenever Dubious Dubya makes an attempt to appear compassionate, it is disturbing and transparent. He is a wolf in the Dalai Lama’s clothing. Saffron just isn’t ‘him.’ Humanitarian acts seem like straight up fronting. Good Will Frontin’.
I guess that this is better than nothing, but will this have any effect on the hardships – the federal obstacle course/Ironman endurance triathalon/Death Race 2004/Survivor with no cameras or torches or voting/starvation/ undue, unnecessary and unrecorded brutality from the INS/exposure to the elements as well as thieves, con artists, predators both animal and ‘human’ – that the migrant families have to survive just to get across the border? The lunacy that is spread that these workers are taking jobs away from red-blooded real Americans is a Mullet Fantasia composed of racism and ignorance. For without the population of these underpaid, unrepresented and unprotected laborers, corporate structure would collapse. George Dubeya-eya-oh is not doing this out of the kindness of his heart, the call of support for laborers and safety from their employers, like he is the lobbying to be the patron saint of Wal-Mart. He is just doing it to keep his friends on the boards of all these huge conglomerates from having to pay their workers what is due, for their ‘illegal’ status has kept them silent. Now their ‘legality’ will give them the false feeling of gratitude, which oddly enough will unfortunately result in the same quiet storm.