[Commentary] Global Compact for Migration - Left Logic

On 11 December, the "`Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration"' will be signed in Marrakech (Morocco). In doing so, the signatories commit themselves to promoting international migration. This is not about escape or asylum, this is a separate agreement, but to labor migration. Illegal migration is never mentioned in this UN migration agreement and it is not differentiated between them.

The promotion of migration is often seen as "`leftist"', the aid as "`humanistic"' and the consequences as "`cosmopolitan"'. All these terms are positively occupied and disguise whose interests are served here. It is about supplying the local labor market with cheap workers. In migration from low-wage countries to high-wage countries, employers and investors profit on a large scale. Leftists who want to represent the working class and its interests should therefore reject this UN migration agreement.

These days, however, there is also a special type who have their own justification for labor migration. Some people actually believe that labor migration is justified if the governments of the countries of destination either wage wars that violate international law or pursue unfair trade agreements. This applies even if the government decides against the will and interests of the population. The population has to bear the consequences in any case, whether it wants the policy that lead to this or not.

That's bizarre. Who from the working class supports international wars in foreign countries? Who from the working class advocates for unfair trade agreements with developing countries?

This left then demands de facto wage cuts through immigration, as compensation for wars that are contrary to international law and unfair trade agreements, because the government has decided against the will and interests of the people. This left may want to unite the proletarians of this world, but it does not even manage to unite the working class in Germany. Employers' organizations really could not wish for a better left.

In German-speaking countries, there are at least two major and one public petitions to the UN migration agreement:

https://migrationspakt-stoppen.info/
https://www.abgeordneten-check.de/kampagnen/globalen-pakt-und-massenmigration-verhindern/startseite/
https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2018/_11/_01/Petition_85565.mitzeichnen.html


[1] Global Compact for safe, orderly and regular Migration:
https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180713_agreed_outcome_global_compact_for_migration.pdf

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