The US would cease to function without all the cheap, illegal immigrant labor it uses for everything from harvesting food to janitorial services.
If it’s a job you wouldn’t want to do, you can bet your ass someone without a social security number has been hired to do it for less than minimum wage.
The same people dependent on cheap migrant labor seek to criminalize it. I suppose this gives them more leverage with which to exploit. If the right were serious about ending illegal immigration it would mean going after employers, not the migrants, and if successful it would mean paying people enough that they are willing to do unpleasant jobs. They don’t want that, they want a convenient scapegoat with which to fearmonger and labor they can exploit. As noncitizens, this group doesn’t have political power to push back, and they can be made to seem scary and foreign to their xenophobic base.
Yeah FUCK them DREAMers, amirite?
The US would cease to function without all the cheap, illegal immigrant labor it uses for everything from harvesting food to janitorial services.
If it’s a job you wouldn’t want to do, you can bet your ass someone without a social security number has been hired to do it for less than minimum wage.
That’s why the border bill didn’t pass, because the Republicans already had a taste of what happens in Florida with that.
The same people dependent on cheap migrant labor seek to criminalize it. I suppose this gives them more leverage with which to exploit. If the right were serious about ending illegal immigration it would mean going after employers, not the migrants, and if successful it would mean paying people enough that they are willing to do unpleasant jobs. They don’t want that, they want a convenient scapegoat with which to fearmonger and labor they can exploit. As noncitizens, this group doesn’t have political power to push back, and they can be made to seem scary and foreign to their xenophobic base.