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Marxist here. You're right, except there is no left wing to speak of in the US.

Regardless, the reason for the mass immigration is plainly capitalism. Immigrants are profitable (exploitable) in so many ways that citizens are not, and the ruling class only stands to gain from mass immigration as their property prices rise.

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You nailed it. They've got the citizens here mostly hoodwinked, too. "We need immigrants to do jobs you don't want to do." No, they need immigrants so they don't have to pay me to do jobs that my grandparents and great-grandparents did, and so there's a larger base of consumers on which to grow share prices via increased sales and debt contracts.

> except there is no left wing to speak of in the US.

I'd say this is true if you're talking about people with real authority, but among the populace there's a sizeable group of people who would support a communist re-establishment of the government.

No left wing? The US has essentially become socialist.

The parent commenter probably meant: There's no Marxian left wing composed of serious people in the US.

That and the so-called "left" that we do have is opportunist performance; liberals washing each others' bloody hands in moralism and running out of ways to fool working people.

> No left wing? The US has essentially become socialist.

We’re really drowning in socialism right now with our private healthcare that’s tied to a workplace only if the employee works >32 hours per week.

And where should insurance come from?

Ah, the assumption we always need some rent-seeking middleman.

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