The Caravan Migrants from Central America are causing troubles for President Donald Trump. On November 26, Trump spoke to reporters outside the White House about the immigration issue that has recently attracted a lot of attention. Defending the use of tear gas by the border agents against the Caravan Migrants, Trump said that "They were being rushed by some very tough people and they used tear gas", "Here's the bottom line: Nobody is coming into our country unless they come in legally."
In addition to Trump, on November 26, Rodney Scott, the chief agent for the San Diego sector told the media that "the group immediately started throwing rocks and debris at our agents, taunting our agents", "once our agents were assaulted, the numbers started growing. We had two or three agents at a time initially facing hundreds of people at a time. They deployed teargas to protect themselves and to protect the border."
Yet these are just one side of the story. Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, has criticized the border patrol for the use of tear gas on the migrants. "There are women and children out there. Using tear gas in this situation does not seem justified," Gelernt said. Now, news about these "Caravan Migrants" mainly from Honduras is being broadcasted every day in the United States, as if these are the news about a war.
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández had previously told the U.S. Vice President Mike Pence that "the caravan was organized by leftist organizations." The main appeal of these migrants is to go to the United States to seek asylum and find a job there. Though this sounds naive, yet this naivety is real, and it happens ceaselessly every day in this world.
Another seemingly unrelated thing that happened recently is also related to the future world.
The U.S. President Trump told the Wall Street Journal on November 26 that General Motors (GM) should stop producing cars in China and move back to the United States for production. Because GM said on November 26 that they can't keep up with the declining demand, and in the face of the stagnant situation of the traditional gasoline-powered sedan market, it will cut back the production of slow-selling models, and significantly reducing North American employees, turning more investment into electric and self-driving vehicles. With this, GM plans to suspend production at three assembly plants next year, located in Lordstown in Ohio, Hamtramck in Michigan, and Oshawa in Ontario, Canada. The company also plans to discontinue several models currently being assembled at these plants, including Chevrolet Cruz, Cadillac CT6 and Buick LaCrosse.
Trump said he was upset that GM's decision to suspend production at a factory in Ohio. He said that GM should produce some other models at the plant. Trump said he has told GM CEO Mary Barra his opinion and discussed with her about GM's production issues. Trump pointed out that the decision to stop the production of Chevrolet Cruze has nothing to do with tariffs. As of September, GM sold nearly 2.7 million vehicles in China, but almost all of them were produced in China.
The real problem is that American production activities require migrants. While the way the "Caravan Migrants" seeking job makes the U.S. President unhappy, it does not mean that the United States does not need migrants to maintain production activities. What happened in the U.S. auto industry is merely a symptom; not only does GM have to transfer production to foreign countries, but Ford is doing the same as well. Other companies like Chrysler and even Tesla have to move to China or other countries for their production. In the United States, they are regarded as "low-end manufacturing". They rely on the new era industrial slaves to maintain the production; only high-margin manufacturing that accommodates high-paying jobs, including the "miracle industries" such as the biopharmaceutical industry, are promising in the United States. Others are not the manufacturing industries that belonged to the Americans, but to the future world's industrial slaves.
In fact, the new "slave society" has already emerged in our world, and it is true that history is cyclical. The new "slave society" is different from the one in the past; there is no violence but there is the same pressure. Under the conditions of industrial division of labor, some people in the world must accept low-wage work to maintain the existence of "low-profit industries." These low-margin industries may be outside the developed countries and maintained by the industrial slaves of the new era; they may also be supported by immigrants within developed countries. All of this do exist and are indispensable. If someone compares and looks at the similarities and differences of the slave societies in the past and present, they will see interesting result.
Will this result change due to the emergence of high technology, such as the massive use of robotics? The answer is not necessarily. From both aspects of the problem, there are obstacles for the situation to change. On the one hand, it is the aspect of immigrants and "industrial slaves" where their search for low-income jobs is real and urgent, which is determined by the social environment of the country in which they live. On the other hand, unless high-tech equipment such as robotics can significantly reduce prices, it is uneconomical to use high technology. In this case, it is not a technical problem but a market competition. However, no matter how we look at it, the phenomenon of industrial slavery will still exist for a long period of time in the future. In our world, there would be groups that are willing to work under harsh low-income conditions; they are doing the jobs that the high-income groups in other countries are not willing to do, and they semi-voluntarily become industrial slaves.
Interestingly, policy plans has formed a relationship with industrial slaves. A country or industry that is motivated by a policy plan has high welfare and high income. Usually such an industry is the core industry of a country and cannot be sold. Therefore, the industries that actual industrial slaves can engage in are actually caused by policy plans to some extent. Hence, what happened to GM today is also the result of the efforts of the U.S. policy planning department.
Final analysis conclusion:
Trump is not necessarily wrong when he lays blame on the former U.S. government.
