Maggie's Farm

"Mark Zuckerberg Group Not Giving Up, Urges Congress to Pass Amnesty ASAP.

"Why? "
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My theory:

Whole entire swaths of techie products and services are being produced for the Silicone Valley mullahs by workers in Chinese and other Asian factories.

With most assembly work on our new high tech phones, tablets, cameras, computers and chips now completed by $0.85/hour high-productivity Asian workers (who have been danged glad to get those factory jobs in their own hometowns), the "labor" component of newtech product has been surpassingly low.

But it's looking more and more likely that we'll not be best friends with China for long, and so we'll probably be losing our access to the Asian sweatshops soon.

The techie mullahs start thinking about bringing all those jobs back home to our high-buck labor pool - they start thinking about trying to sell phones assembled by UAW workers - and they realize that, unless they can get the American consumer to expect to pay $15,000.00 for a smart phone, they're toast.

UNLESS . . . unless they can somehow assemble their very own Chinese sweatshop system here in the USA.

To do this, they need to find workers willing to accept Chinese wages - Malaysian wages - Korean wages - right here in Our Town.

So what better way to do this - what better way to establish and populate an entire domestic Third World - than to bring the entire underclass of Mexico up across our border and bus them out around the country to wherever has the quietly-new techie factories that have been built and now simply await Amnesty (if not the far simpler Open Borders.)

Why should Apple put its people through the rigors of trying to run a manufacturing line on the other side of the world when it can simply build and fill its own Incredibly Deprived Ghetto right here in River City?