
justinian
Bernie definitely isn’t a nativist… He correctly points out that the wealthy use immigrants to reduce the value of labor, an injustice to immigrants (who get paid less) and people born here (who are replaced from their jobs) Btw Marx also said this.workers do not lower the wages of other workers, because workers are not the ones who exchange the wage. capitalists exploit migrant workers by exchanging them lower wages, and tell white workers that migrant and nonwhite workers drive wages down. all of these arguments around who has a right to stay on occupied land are still anti-worker and inherently white supremacist in their origin
Theoretically yes every job could be filled with someone here but the reality of the medical field for example means if not enough doctors lab techs radiologists etc are not available to work every open position then you have to supplement the gaps. I’d also make the point that especially for elite careers compensation is not the issue it’s the number of skilled workers within thoose fields
yet you literally are when you defend nativist immigration policies. migrant workers are among the most exploited and most underpaid, and the focus on their presence in the US, and not the class of people who exploit their marginalized position, directly serves that owning and exploiting class