Dr. Webster G. Tarpley: GOP's Hatred of Foreigners in US

"The Republican Party is extremely vulnerable to a rational proposal for immigration reform. On the one hand, the Wall Street financiers who dominate the Washington GOP elite, want to maximize immigration as a means of driving down wages, to maximize immigration as a means of driving down wages and undermining collective bargaining. But many Republican state party organizations, and a significant part of the militant GOP base, are infected by hatred of foreigners, xenophobia." A reform of the absurd and obsolete immigration laws of the United States is long overdue,and is now finally under discussion. Tea Party Republicans are acting out the fear and hatred of foreigners, which is typical of this faction. Wall Street Democrats and corporate Republicans are attempting to implement the financier program of using foreign workers to drive down domestic wages, further weakening the trade union movement. And as usual, the two Wall Street controlled political parties are doing everything to obscure the main considerations that ought to guide this reform. In the view of Alexander Hamilton and other economists of the American System of Political Economy, the wealth of the nation is located first and foremost in the education, training, and experience of its labor force. As Abraham Lincoln put it, the welfare of labor is the most important consideration. The most basic form of capital is human capital, mental capital. In this connection, the willingness of industrious and energetic people from around the world, to come to the United States and find work is a tremendous national resource, and one which should not be dilapidated by outbursts of racism or xenophobia. Without a constant flow of immigrants, the United States would already be condemned to a serious demographic crisis, of the type being experienced by Japan, Western Europe, Russia, China, and other parts of the world. Seen from this angle, immigrants are an American national trump card in the effort to create and maintain a modern labor force, to meet the demands of international competition in the 21st century. Without immigration, the United States would be facing an uncertain future for want of people in the workforce.