Once you acknowledge the plain fact that the U.S. has deliberately engineered -- and maintained for over a century -- an agricultural system dependent on migrant labor, you see that "the undocumented" aren& #39;t an illicit foreign presence, but a hyper-exploited domestic caste.

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. @DanielDenvir& #39;s book offers an excellent overview of how shifts in U.S. immigration law over the 20th century recoded this part of the labor-force as "illegal," and how nativists exploited this designation in popularizing the idea of an immigration crisis https://www.versobooks.com/books/2858-all-american-nativism">https://www.versobooks.com/books/285...