This Blog article provides a Brief commentary on: Sports, Politics and Immigration: Damar Hamlin’s Recovery, Kevin McCarthy is Weakest Speaker and President Biden’s Biden Immigration problem. Further Discussions are available in Audio at
The Neoliberal Round
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1. The Buffalo Bills’ GM had a Press Conference and provided an update on Damar Hamlin’s recovery.
2. Kevin McCarthy is finally Speaker of the House of Representatives after the 15th round of
voting. But he will be the weakest Speaker in years after several concessions, yet many of his
own members distrust him and may prove to be a shaky GOP majority.
3. President Biden is said to have created the current immigration problem at the border after
the ending of Title IV. However, is the immigration problem really a crisis created by Biden or
is not a wider international problem…You cannot fix the immigration problem, without
addressing the international competition between and among countries that makes rich
countries richer and poor countries and peoples caught between privilege, policy and
politics poorer.
The discussions can be listened to in more dynamic detail on The Neoliberal Round Podcast
Season 6 Episode 1 entitled Sports, Politics and Immigration.
Question: Many immigrants seeking asylum paint their countries as violent and evil and are seeking refuge. But is this true?
A. yes, many are seeking asylum from humanitarian crisis.
B. No, many are demonizing their countries and using asylum as a means to gain status.
C. Yes and no, some have legitimate reasons, but many don’t.
D. Other, please comment.
Poll question available at Spotify, Twitter and LinkedIn
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Immigration, which must always be considered when dealing with matters of globalization
driven by neoliberal strategies or greed; because immigration is a consequence of unfair
competition or neoliberal globalization and according to Harry Enten, who wrote an article in
CNN Politics entitled “Why Biden has an Immigration policy problem, “The issue is one of the
first that puts Biden and his administration between a rock and a hard place. It’s not clear
looking at the data how to politically deal with the issue. For one thing, a flow of illegal
immigration across the border divides the Democratic base.” Harry Enten, Why Biden has an
immigration problem,” in cnnpolitics, updated March 27, 2021)
This article first appeared in The Neoliberal Post and was submitted to the Jamaica Gleaner as
a Letter to the Editor for Publication.
But Biden’s problems are bigger than that Mr. Enten. You cannot fix the immigration
problem, without addressing the international competition between and among countries
that makes rich countries richer and poor countries and peoples caught between privilege,
policy and politics poorer. Where is the will to prop up another country so that their people no
longer need to travel or migrate? For in effect, to do so, to make Jamaica like say a Singapore
whose people enjoy the benefits of high growth, export and Incomes, would then mean that
Jamaica becomes a more viable and competitive economy who will then become part of the
competition. So, then this puts any strategy to fix immigration by working with another country
in perspective. Therefore, if Biden’s strategy to fix immigration is to provide assistance to
these countries whose poor peoples are coming to the US illegally, would mean creating another
situation where such a country like Jamaica becomes too competitive; unless the “fix” is to
provide aid that continues dependency.
Further, immigration had always followed a draconian policy based on race, class and
incomes; where the best and brightest who have ties gets to escape the realities of their
colonies, leaving their nascent lands devoid of brilliance and labor that could translate in helping
the former colony. Yet this very policy is what benefits the post-industrial countries of the
global north. A policy that identifies two types of immigrants, one from the north and another
from the south, one that is white and Anglo-Saxon and another that is black or brown, one that
is connected and has ties and another that is not. So that such discriminatory policy created a
situation where people who really need to emigrate find it harder to do so vis-à-vis their other
countrymen of higher esteem who are more welcomed creating a brain drain for the former
colonies of the global south like Jamaica.
Recently President Biden was derided over his handling of the immigration situation currently
occurring on the US border where hundreds of migrants are illegally crossing the border since
the ending of Title IV. This means that the Trump-era policy that ended granting asylum to
refugees went into effect. However, many from the global south running to the global north
usually have no escape or no way than to justify their way in through seeking asylum-which
means demeaning their own country which are innocent victim of a draconian international
system that has left the post-colonial country behind and dependent. The rationale for many
immigrants seeking asylum is usually that their former country is violent, unjust, evil and they
are running for their lives. But is this true, or the only way that these people can get into
richer countries who have created and supported this narrative about the global south. The
global south is thus a victim of politics and peoples, the prey and the hunter. The global south
since the genocide of its first peoples have been so abused yet still a place to vacate.
Nevertheless, travel between the global south and global north is uniquely different. Those
going to the global south are going as tourists, while those coming to the global north from the
global south are coming as refugees or to work, with much surveillance surrounding their life.
But this situation is good or beneficial to maintaining power and control. It provides the
opportunity that allows post-industrial countries to continue holding the advantage within a
highly competitive world. Why shouldn’t the consequence of brain drain be an effective
strategy for any country to hold an advantage. When the best minds leave a country for
another it weakens one country and strengthens the other who gain the brain. Therefore,
Immigration is not an easy fix as you’d think especially when understood within the politics of
international competition where gains and losses are hinged on the movements of CERTAIN
people from the global south to the global north. This is discussed on the podcast and is an
excerpt of my new book Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered out next month. This is also
loosely discussed in my first book Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty
and Resistance, we will pick up this topic when I teach Caribbean Thought at The Jamaica
Theological Seminary.
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