Imperialist wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other countries are the single largest cause of mass movement of people. Add to that the endemic poverty in the countries long exploited by imperialism, like Mexico and in Central America, or previously enslaved as direct colonies in Africa and much of Asia.
Nor is the witch-hunting of immigrants merely an American phenomenon. Throughout Europe and increasingly in Asia, capitalist governments carrying out relentless attacks on the living standards of the working class seek to divert workers' anger by blaming immigrants for the destruction of jobs and wages. This divide-and-rule policy is an attack on the working class as a whole. It must be answered by workers uniting as a class and resolutely defending the rights of their immigrant brothers and sisters.
The Socialist Equality Party denounces all attacks on immigrant workers. At its Third National Congress in August, the Socialist Equality Party in the US adopted a resolution calling for the defense of immigrant workers and denouncing the Obama administration's policy of repression and mass deportation. The resolution concluded:
"The SEP upholds the right of workers from every corner of the globe to live and work in whatever country they choose with full citizenship rights, including the right to return to their home countries without the threat of being barred from re-entry to the US and being separated from their families. The SEP fights for the repeal of all anti-immigrant laws and the disbanding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol."
The SEP fights intransigently for this perspective, against all efforts to scapegoat immigrant workers for the decline in wages and living conditions of all workers in the United States. We fight for the international unity of American workers, white, black, Hispanic, Asian and immigrant, in a common struggle with the working class of the entire world on the basis of a socialist perspective.
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