.@jimmy_dore is right about @RepAOC. She has embraced the neoliberal agenda. Simon Lester, associate director at Koch-funded CATO retweeted this.
https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1337171156521148417
Charles Pfizer was an established German businessman and scientist before he relocated to the United States in 1848 - a period when the US had no immigration laws. He cofounded Pfizer with his brother in 1849 (one year later).
As the number of new migrant arrivals started skyrocketing in the 1880s, economic conditions began to worsen in some parts of the country which led to formal immigration policy being implemented by the government.
The Chief Medical Officer of BioNTech is NOT an immigrant. Özlem Türeci is a German born scientist of Turkish descent living in Germany. Her husband on the other hand is Uğur Şahin who is the CEO of BioNTech; moved to Germany from Turkey when he was 4 years old.
After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, West Germany began experiencing a labor crisis because East Germans were restricted from entering. So West Germans signed a labor treaty with Turkey to allow the flow of Turkish workers into West Germany. They stayed permanently.
The tweet by @RepAOC is problematic because it's pushing the neoliberal concept of 'open-borders'. You can't claim to be a progressive fighting for higher wages & corporate abuse when your immigration policy matches that of the Koch bros.
It's this kind of identity politics that led @RepAOC to vote YEA on a major immigration bill that Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Facebook have spent millions lobbying for.
That too on a bill that would harm future immigrants from other nations!
That too on a bill that would harm future immigrants from other nations!
https://twitter.com/USTechWorkers/status/1334895030323048454?s=20
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