Sports, Politics and Immigration

This article provides commentary on: Sports, Politics and Immigration:?Dhamar Hamlin's Recovery, Kevin McCarthy is Weakest Speaker and President Biden's Biden Immigration problem

1. The Buffalo Bills' GM had a Press Conference and provided an update on Dhamar Hamlin's recovery.?

2. Kevin McCarthy is finally Speaker of the House of Representatives after the 15th round of voting. But he will be the weakest Speaker in years after several concessions, yet many of his own members distrust him and may prove to be a shaky GOP majority.

3. President Biden is said to have created the current immigration problem at the border after the ending of Title IV. However, is the immigration problem really a crisis created by Biden or is not a wider international problem...You cannot fix the immigration problem, without addressing the international competition between and among countries that makes rich countries richer and poor countries and peoples caught between privilege, policy and politics poorer.

The discussions can be listened to in more dynamic detail on The Neoliberal Round Podcast Season 6 Episode 1 entitled Sports, Politics and Immigration.

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Finally, on the matter of immigration, which must always be considered when dealing with matters of globalization driven by neoliberal strategies or greed; because immigration is a consequence of unfair competition or neoliberal globalization and according to Harry Enten, who wrote an article in CNN Politics entitled “Why Biden has an Immigration policy problem, “The issue is one of the first that puts Biden and his administration between a rock and a hard place. It’s not clear looking at the data how to politically deal with the issue.?For one thing, a flow of illegal immigration across the border divides the Democratic base.”?Harry Enten, Why Biden has an immigration problem,” in cnnpolitics, updated March 27, 2021)

This article first appeared in The Neoliberal Post and was submitted to the Jamaica Gleaner as a Letter to the Editor for Publication.

???????????But Biden’s problems are bigger than that Mr. Enten. You cannot fix the immigration problem, without addressing the international competition between and among countries that makes rich countries richer and poor countries and peoples caught between privilege, policy and politics poorer. Where is the will to prop up another country so that their people no longer need to travel or migrate? For in effect, to do so, to make Jamaica like say a Singapore whose people enjoy the benefits of high growth, export and Incomes, would then mean that Jamaica becomes a more viable and competitive economy who will then become part of the competition. So, then this puts any strategy to fix immigration by working with another country in perspective. Therefore, if Biden’s strategy to fix immigration is to provide assistance to these countries whose poor peoples are coming to the US illegally, would mean creating another situation where such a country like Jamaica becomes too competitive; unless the “fix” is to provide aid that continues dependency.

Further, immigration had always followed a draconian policy based on race, class and incomes; where the best and brightest who have ties gets to escape the realities of their colonies, leaving their nascent lands devoid of brilliance and labor that could translate in helping the former colony. Yet this very policy is what benefits the post-industrial countries of the global north. A policy that identifies two types of immigrants, one from the north and another from the south, one that is white and Anglo-Saxon and another that is black or brown, one that is connected and has ties and another that is not. So that such discriminatory policy created a situation where people who really need to emigrate find it harder to do so vis-à-vis their other countrymen of higher esteem who are more welcomed creating a brain drain for the former colonies of the global south like Jamaica.

Recently President Biden was derided over his handling of the immigration situation currently occurring on the US border where hundreds of migrants are illegally crossing the border since the ending of Title IV. This means that the Trump-era policy that ended granting asylum to refugees went into effect. However, many from the global south running to the global north usually have no escape or no way than to justify their way in through seeking asylum-which means demeaning their own country which are innocent victim of a draconian international system that has left the post-colonial country behind and dependent. The rationale for many immigrants seeking asylum is usually that their former country is violent, unjust, evil and they are running for their lives. But is this true, or the only way that these people can get into richer countries who have created and supported this narrative about the global south. The global south is thus a victim of politics and peoples, the prey and the hunter. The global south since the genocide of its first peoples have been so abused yet still a place to vacate. Nevertheless, travel between the global south and global north is uniquely different. Those going to the global south are going as tourists, while those coming to the global north from the global south are coming as refugees or to work, with much surveillance surrounding their life.

But this situation is good or beneficial to maintaining power and control. It provides the opportunity that allows post-industrial countries to continue holding the advantage within a highly competitive world. Why shouldn’t the consequence of brain drain be an effective strategy for any country to hold an advantage. When the best minds leave a country for another it weakens one country and strengthens the other who gain the brain. Therefore, Immigration is not an easy fix as you’d think especially when understood within the politics of international competition where gains and losses are hinged on the movements of CERTAIN people from the global south to the global north.?This is discussed on the podcast and is an excerpt of my new book Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered out next month. This is also loosely discussed in my first book?Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance, we will pick up this topic when I teach Caribbean Thought at The Jamaica Theological Seminary.?

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