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December 12, 2006

Responding to Government plans to introduce an English-language and Australian values test for prospective citizens, senator Barnaby Joyce (who often holds the deciding vote in the Senate) said: “We’re trying to stop people who have militant ideas who want to destroy our nation - I’ve got no problem with that whatsoever”. He added, “What has to be proven is whether an English test is going to do it - most wackos are very well-educated.”

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  1. Blair is concerned also. Glad to see the rest of the English-speaking world is finally catching up with the U.S. on this.

    Eric [December 13, 2006 @ 2:56 pm]

  2. Damn migrants - damn intelligent, radical migrants who want to destroy our family of English-speaking nations.

    There was a dictation test here before, though (remarkably) it didn’t have to be in English, but could be in any European language the migration official deemed might keep someone out.

    s0metim3s [December 14, 2006 @ 1:30 pm]

  3. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement-US) crackdown on meatpacking plants. “Workers at the Swift plant in Grand Island, Neb., have been bussed to Camp Dodge, Iowa, six hours away from their families, with no guarantee of return transportation.”

    http://www.ufcw.org/press_room/index.cfm?pressReleaseID=275

    pomagrenade [December 15, 2006 @ 8:18 am]

  4. On ICE’s recent roundups, there’s a piece by David Bacon at deletetheborder which is interesting. Interesting too that ICE has suddenly decided to scare people with the accusation of ‘identity theft’ - ‘Not only are migrants stealing our jobs, but our identities as well!’

    s0metim3s [December 16, 2006 @ 10:26 pm]

  5. Worker’s Vanguard has a report on an earlier walkout of more than 1000 workers at a meat plant in North Carolina to protest the firing of migrant workers that didn’t have papers.

    pomegrenade [December 21, 2006 @ 6:33 am]

  6. Thanks Pom. I haven’t read reports of 100% turnover for a long time, not since reading about the conditions in Henry Ford’s car plants just prior to the introduction of ‘Fordism’, prior to 1914. Perhaps the parallel doesn’t exist at the level of the firm, but it seems that whereas the relatively higher wage, bonus systems and suchlike that, in Fordism, ensured a degree of worker ‘loyalty’ (ie., productivity), have been replaced by xenophobia as the mechanism of fidelity, or so they hope. And perhaps there’s a sense there the firm has been reconstituted as the national economy (oikos).

    s0metim3s [December 22, 2006 @ 12:44 pm]

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