--- Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is important, however, is that the question of > undocumented > immigrants, unlike that of civil rights, i.e., de > jure equality, for > Blacks, women, homosexuals, the disabled, and so on, > cannot be solved > within the existing legal framework of a capitalist > state, for a > national state has the right to select and reject > newcomers. So, this > will be an enduring issue, which will not go away, > as long as a large > economic inequality between the USA and Mexico (and > other countries in > the global South) remains.
There are also economic inequalities between the Western European nation-states and Poland, but Poland will become part of the Schengen zone in 2007. Over and against the wishes of racist mobs in Eastern Germany, Polish workers will have the ability to reside in Western Europe without special visas or residence permits, and work there as well. Oskar Lafontaine's nightmare, but a real victory for human emancipation. Is such a state of affairs inconceivable in the NAFTA countries? The Republican right has to appease their racist core constituency, but I could easily imagine the "enlightened" Warren Buffett/George Soros wing of capital recognizing that if NAFTA is to be anything substantial, some sort of Schengen-like agreement will be necessary. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com
