a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players

Your proof of this is… what?

That’s the whole point of right-wing “anti-immigrant” hysteria - it has always been about the repression of the cheapest source of labour (even cheaper than carceral slavery). Hell, the dynamics of this is even perfectly articulated in the second book of the Old Testament.

But the goons doing the dirty work doesn’t need to know that.