This originally aired on The Final Straw radio show.
I think I have a solution to the immigration problem. But before I reveal what the solution is, maybe I should first point out what the immigration problem is. The problem is that governments regulate it in the first place. If you think about it, corporations aren’t regulated at the border. They can cross all borders and transcend all boundaries. Corporations are multinational. Money also passes freely across borders. Products. There are treaties the size of phone books that were signed in order to liberate products from being regulated at national borders. And we all know that jobs travel across national boundaries all the time.
In fact, the only thing regulated at the border is….people. That means corporations have more rights than you. So do green pieces of paper with dead slave-owners faces on them. Sneakers and cheese puffs have more rights than you. Even jobs. That means the machinery we use to toil all day for food rewards can cross a border before we can.
The reason for this makes perfect sense if you think about the purpose for national borders existing. Corporations need national borders. Those borders are essential for creating artificial pockets of poverty. Consider the situation on the U.S.- Mexico border, for instance. There you have a situation where you find hungry people on one side of the fence and food on the other. This creates a pool of desperate people,and that serves corporate interests in several ways. First, corporations can use those desperate people as leverage. That is, if workers are dissatisfied with the level of pay or benefits and ask for a reasonable pay increase, the corporate bosses can say, “If you don’t want to work for the current wage, those poor people will….,” and the workers are forced back to work. This is the strategy that’s been used to depress worker wages so that, since the 1970’s, the American workers have lost 50% of their spending power. No kidding.
The second advantage corporations have by maintaining national borders is that they can make good on those threats to ship jobs to Mexico, or to ship Mexican jobs to India or Indian jobs to China. It’s called “the race to the bottom,” and it reduces the vast majority of the human population to slavery while concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.
Occupy’s  rhetoric about the 1% isn’t really too far off. And as that corporate elite amass all that wealth, they pay off governments to make the playing field even less level, making sure hard work will never set anyone free. None of us at the bottom will ever have a chance to climb the ladder and displace one of the privileged elite at the top.
The third advantage that corporations gain from national borders is a steady influx of so called “illegal immigrants.” In the U.S. “illegals”comprise the work force for entire industries, from fruit harvesting to meat packing. Desperate people, hungry people, cross borders and are willing to work for pennies on the dollar. They represent a class of super-exploitables. They perform functions that no one else will perform. Their “illegal” status keeps them vulnerable and disempowered, existing on the fringes and left to the whims of the powerful who can increase their own profit margins at the illegals’ expense.
If borders simply disappeared overnight, if the fences were all torn down, all those advantages that corporate predators gain from creating artificial pockets of poverty would disappear. The situation in Mexico and the U.S. would equalize , much like the border between the U.S. and Canada, but mega-profit corporations with their money bags and their influence over policy makers will never let that happen. So what I propose is an Immigration Law Compliance Day.
If we organized all the so called “illegals” to turn themselves in at the same time, the entire economy and government  control system would collapse. With no one to pick fruit, it would rot in the fields. With no meat packers, fast food joints would run out of burgers. Millions of people would over-clog all the nations jails and prisons demanding 3 meals a day while food prices soared. To make matters worse, Mexico would refuse to repatriate millions of poor people, fully aware that a flood of millions of hungry people would destabilize their country. So the U.S. justice, immigration and prison complexes would collapse under a burden of millions with no where to go… while the nation felt the crunch of a national food crisis.
Immigration Law Compliance Day. The one situation where obeying the law could bring about the total collapse of swivilization as we know it. We can make the whole system grind to a halt.

Si Se Puede. Yes We Can.
This is anarchist prisoner Sean Swain from Ohio Supermax facility.
If you’re listening. You are the resistance.