It is essential to identify the root cause of a problem and then find ways to address that cause to solve said problem. The issue of undocumented immigrants has the bloody hands of capitalism all over it. People who migrate to the United States without authorization come here for various reasons. Some individuals seek economic opportunities, while others flee violence or persecution in their home countries. Additionally, some people immigrate to reunite with family members already residing in the United States.

How do they get here?
According to a report by the Pew Research Center, a significant number of undocumented migrants entered the United States legally through ports of entry such as airports or border crossing points. These individuals were subject to inspection by immigration officials but have overstayed their visas and are now undocumented in the United States. These people are overlooked because it's a problematic narrative for the media. There isn't an easy picture to draw attention to, like those at the southern border. However, most individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally are apprehended at the southwestern U.S. border and originate from Mexico or Central America. This is the picture that we often see. This narrative allows the media to participate in lazy journalism.

A fundamental question is how people become aware of these economic opportunities within the United States.

Well, that's easy. 

Immigrants become aware of economic opportunities in the United States through various channels. Some common ways include:
Word of mouth: It's probably the most used means of spreading the word of economic opportunity in the United States. Friends, family members, or acquaintances who have migrated to the United States may share their experiences and inform others about the available economic prospects.
Online resources: Immigrants can access information about economic opportunities through online platforms, job portals, social media groups, and forums. These platforms provide insights into job openings, high-demand industries, and potential career paths.
Migration agencies and consultants: Some immigrants seek assistance from migration agencies or consultants who specialize in guiding immigration procedures, job prospects, and economic opportunities in the United States.
Community organizations: Immigrant community organizations often play a crucial role in disseminating information about economic opportunities. They may organize workshops, seminars, or networking events to connect immigrants with potential employers or provide guidance on starting businesses.
Educational institutions: Immigrants pursuing education in the United States can explore economic opportunities through career services offered by universities and colleges. These services provide resources for internships, job placements, and networking opportunities.

Given that we live in a capitalist financial system, it is essential to analyze whether employers can maximize their profits by hiring undocumented workers.

Of course, hiring undocumented workers can provide financial benefits for employers. According to an article on LawFirms.com, employers who employ unauthorized workers may experience lower labor costs and increased profit margins. 

The Center for American Progress reported that California and Texas have historically had the largest undocumented workforce in the United States. California has approximately 1.4 million undocumented workers, while Texas has around 1.2 million.

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The main topic here is to explain why I support unions. There are many arguments in favor of unions, but the most important one is the power of the collective. This power enables workers to achieve better outcomes than they could individually. It also provides the basis for other benefits of unions, such as higher wages, better working conditions, and more influence on policies.

We live in a capitalist economic system where nothing is free. Everything has a price. Even in a socialist economic system, nothing would be free, but things would be more equitable. Regardless of the system, some effort is always required to obtain things.

A common strategy of many wealthy people is to discourage the use of collective action and to promote individualism among workers. However, this is a foolish and short-sighted approach. A lesson can be learned from the classic novel Gulliver’s Travels, where the protagonist, Gulliver, wakes up in the land of the Lilliputians, who are tiny people who had to work together against a giant foe.

Unions are like the Lilliputians, and they can usually only achieve what is best for the group by working together. Some people like to discourage others from participating in unions by highlighting the cons, but in this instance, the positive aspects of a union and collective bargaining far outweigh the negative.

Wealthy sports owners utilize collective bargaining to secure favorable outcomes for themselves. They understand the strength of speaking with a unified voice and negotiating as a group. This is a valuable lesson that workers can learn from the wealthy.

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The prevailing inequality in this country is evident from the current situation. The privileged and the ordinary people are not on the same level. The wealthy have more advantages and opportunities than the rest of us. They also use their power and influence to create unfair barriers for those who challenge them. For instance, many contractors who worked for the former president, Donald Trump, were either underpaid or unpaid. They sued him, but he used delaying tactics, making the legal process more costly for the contractor. 

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Sports have the potential to reduce racial discrimination by cultivating a culture of collaboration, mutual respect, and fair competition among diverse groups of people.

This statement appears to be the superficial remark everyone expects you to make. It is indeed a convenient way to avoid revealing the truth. Sports are driven by money and winning. Even if some owners harbor racist sentiments, their desire to maximize their profits and success overrides their racial biases when selecting black players for their teams. 

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How would you react if I said that America's favorite game was a lesson in socialism? You might wonder if I will discuss the stadiums partly funded by taxpayers' money. Although that is one aspect of the NFL's socialist structure, it is not the main point of this discussion today. I am referring to the NFL's revenue-sharing system.

The NFL owners have two sources of income: national and local revenue. The local revenue, which consists of 60% of ticket sales, concessions, parking, and corporate sponsorships, is earned by the teams themselves and depends on each team's market size and performance. The owners get to keep this revenue for themselves. This is not a discussion about this source of income.

I am talking about the national revenue sharing. The National revenue comprises TV deals, merchandising, licensing, and 40% of ticket sales, negotiated by the league and distributed equally among the teams. The owners get to keep 53% of this national revenue, and the players get to keep 47% of this income.

The "why" is the most interesting part of this whole thing. Why is the national revenue shared equally among the owners? Easy, it's to foster competitive balance and financial stability among the teams. In other words, no one team can gain an advantage because they are in a bigger market and can bring in more money. 

In 2019, the national revenue amounted to about $18 billion. Each football team received approximately $500 million. Another way that the NFL owners try to maintain fairness is the use of the salary cap. The salary cap is the maximum amount each owner can spend on the players' contracts. It is paid from the national revenue. You know, the revenue that is shared equally. The salary cap was about $224 million in 2019, which is slightly less than 47% of $500 million.

This resembles socialism to me. These multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires are concerned with fairness and they do not want teams with bigger markets to outperform them because of money. Socialists contend that capitalism inevitably results in unfair and exploitative concentrations of wealth and power in the hands of the few who prevail in free-market competition. This reminds me of the quote, “Do as I say, not as I do.” I suppose a socialist structure only works if you have millions or billions of dollars.

Additionally, do you know the entity that helps the players get paid, ensures their medical expenses and health are taken care of, and provides other benefits? It’s the NFL Players Association. I suspect that the owner influenced the choice of the name. Perhaps they dissuaded them from using the term union. However, the NFL Players Association is essentially a union. Just like a Cadillac and a Honda are both cars. Anyway, ask yourself, why is it that a union is good for these millionaire players, but multibillion-dollar companies fight so hard against unions? Companies like Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, McDonald’s and others have resisted the formation of unions so that the average worker cannot benefit from the power of collective bargaining.

These wealthy individuals have deceived you, so that they can retain the profits from your labor for themselves.

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The modern GOP's simplistic approach to the word "woke" is astonishing. To equate it with something negative is downright foolish. Can you imagine telling your child or parents to "sleep on" everything someone says or does to them? For example, "You can sleep on what John or Kenneth is saying to you. They have your best interest at heart." Or "You can sleep on when you leave your drink on the table to go to the bathroom. Nothing will happen to it."

To be asleep is to be unaware of what is happening, which is the opposite of being woke. To be anti-woke is to refuse to challenge things. It is to go through life passively, accepting everything at face value. It is to be vulnerable to manipulation.

Can you imagine this being the sentiment at any time in history? Gen X women, especially, can relate to the experience of having to carry dimes and quarters in case they needed to make a phone call because they were not safe walking alone.

It is concerning that the GOP would want their constituents to be asleep. Cults and cult leaders, on the other hand, would definitely want their members to be asleep. It is in the cult leader's best interest to have members who are not paying attention, who are numb, or who are asleep to what is happening around them.

If you know a Democratic leader, encourage them to turn the GOP's anti-woke campaign on its head. We need to be more vigilant than ever in challenging the status quo and protecting our democracy.

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The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States after the Civil War. However, thousands of former slaveholders who had relied on enslaved labor for their economic prosperity faced a loss of income and power. So, they sought alternative ways to exploit black people to gain or retain income and power. The federal and state governments would play a significant role in black people's economic oppression.

A business owner knows labor is the most significant and indispensable business cost. It always has, and it always will be. But with new technology, replacing some of the labor costs with machines is becoming easier. But after the end of enslavement, there weren't many machines that could replace the work of the free labor enslavers had.

Some might argue that exploitation is a personal responsibility and not a systemic issue. However, this ignores the historical and legal context that has enabled white people to exploit black people in the United States. The withdrawal of federal troops from the South after the Civil War was followed by the enactment of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination.

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The difference between a boycott and a strike is that a boycott is a form of protest by consumers who refuse to buy or use a product or service until their demands are met. In comparison, a strike is a form of protest by workers who refuse to work until their demands are met.

Boycotts and strikes are potent tools that organizations can use to demand change. They target the economic foundations of entities or sectors that engage in unjust or harmful practices or exploit their workers. The critical factor for a successful boycott or strike is solidarity. If the boycotters or strikers lose their unity or commitment, their chances of achieving their goals diminish.

In this capitalist economic system, the outcome of a boycott or a strike depends on which side can endure the financial loss longer. The boycotters or strikers may seem disadvantaged, but if they remain united and determined, they can inflict significant damage on the target's finances. 

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We live in a world where propaganda is pervasive and influential. Many of us are vulnerable and succumb to its influence. A common misconception is that wealthy people have all the power, which is a lie. The power belongs to the people, but they are tricked into thinking that they do not have power. The wealthy use various strategies to manipulate us and maintain their dominance, such as creating inflation, discouraging labor unions, and creating division among the lower and middle classes by forcing them to compete for resources that the wealthy control. The main instrument they employ to achieve this is capitalism. Capitalism is a zero-sum game, where someone has to lose for someone else to win.

Many of us, the majority of us, are drawn into the capitalist system because we have been taught that we can succeed with hard work. However, the capitalist system as a whole is rigged against us. Moreover, we are taught that other economic systems are doomed to fail because they are prone to corruption when the truth is that all economic systems have the potential for corruption, especially capitalism. We are immersed in a sea of corruption that people and corporations have caused in the capitalist system. And even though the corruption is evident, they tell us that other economic systems would be worse. We are fed with the positive aspects of capitalism and blinded to or given excuses for the inequalities that exist in the capitalist structure. They are quick to blame people with low incomes for being poor. When Ronald Reagan wanted to turn us against people with low incomes, he presented us with the image of the “welfare queen.” It was not a coincidence that the person was black and a woman. It was a deliberate choice. And most of us fell for it hook, line, and sinker. While not informing most of us that the vast majority of people on welfare are white. The federal government in the Jim Crow era could not explicitly exclude black people from welfare programs. They had to devise clever ways to keep the welfare program out of as many black hands as possible.

They accomplished this in many ways, such as:

• The Social Security Act of 1935 excluded agricultural workers and domestic servants, who were predominantly Black, from old-age insurance and unemployment insurance benefits.
• The Aid to Dependent Children (later renamed Aid to Families with Dependent Children) program gave states broad discretion in determining eligibility and benefit levels, which allowed Southern states to exclude or limit assistance to Black families.
• The Federal Emergency Relief Administration, which provided relief funds to states during the Great Depression, allocated more money per capita to white families than Black families and often denied relief to Black families altogether.
• The Works Progress Administration, which created jobs for unemployed workers, segregated its projects by race and paid Black workers lower wages than white workers.
• The Public Works Administration and the Federal Housing Administration, which subsidized housing construction and mortgages, enforced racial segregation and redlining policies that prevented Black families from accessing affordable and quality housing.

These structural systems were built into the government to make it seem like they were playing fair, but they were not. They had developed a system in which they would try to hide their racism. Many of these same structures still exist or have created new ones to replace older ways of systemic racism.

Ronald Reagan and other Republicans since have used these racist cloaks to fit their narrative and reinforce the stereotype that black people are lazy and always take advantage of a system meant to help people. Meanwhile, we ignore or justify the expl

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