Fucking seriously… We have this goddamn obsession with hating immigrants and blaming them for wage stagnation in a lot of sectors, but we NEVER talk about going after the people hiring them or putting the squeeze on us in every way imaginable…
Not to mention everyone I know bitches about “illegals” but wants to to fuck-all about solving the issue of immigration wait times… If it takes a decade to get through the process then maybe jusssssst maybe we address that?? Nahhh… That’s communisocialivenezuela or something.
don’t forget that the locals don’t want to do the “stolen” jobs anyway
https://www.mic.com/articles/8272/alabama-illegal-immigrant-crackdown-destroys-farm-business
That’s an absolutely valid point. I’m not American but in Ireland we get the same “foreigners are stealing our jobs” bullshit. I work in a meat processing plant. Most Irish new starts don’t last the first week.
What jobs are they stealing? Jobs we won’t do? We need immigrants, we aren’t far away from a declining population. I don’t understand how people thing that’s an issue when our entire economy is propped up on migrant workers.
I believe stiffer penalties for employers WAS part of the bipartisan immigration bill that Trump killed, but I don’t have a source for that.
I think the reason this doesn’t get addressed is because Republicans actually want to keep the status quo where they can employ illegal immigrants to depress wages. They just want to use immigrants as a scapegoat to rile people up.
Maddox from the internet prehistory talked about it.
holy shit, that dude is still around and posting content! Albeit, just 5 times in the past 4 years, but still.
Let’s say that it actually was illegal immigrants “stealing your job.” Who is actually hiring them in the first place, hm? Even if it was true, the anger shouldn’t be directed at the immigrants.
I don’t think anger should be directed towards illegal immigrants but probably would make sense to go after both those hiring them and making sure there aren’t as much illegal immigrants. Because with illegal immigrants around to be abused and made to work on pennies, that will cause all kinds of hurt. But obviously they should have a hefty penalty for those hiring them as well.
making sure there aren’t as much illegal immigrants.
We can do that by legalizing them.
I’m not American, but isn’t there an underground adage something like, “The country runs on migrant workers”?
And from what I see from beyond its borders, whenever it breaks—sometimes in such a way it impacts globalisation and foreign economies—its always been the rich.
Kind of, but that’s not even very “nice.” Yeah, there’s a lot of things that migrant workers do, primarily in agriculture and service work, but they’re still taken advantage of. If we’re being honest, the relative comfort of the first world relies on the exploitation of the global poor.
The point I’ve made repeatedly is that if you want to stop immigration, it’s much simpler and far cheaper to go after the big companies that hire them. Arrest and throw some American business people in jail and the rest will stop hiring.
For some reason, that doesn’t seem to get a lot of play in GOP circles.
Ah, yes, but have you considered that the billionaires are the same colour as me and the immigrants aren’t?
Check mate
Ah, but you peel away the skin and you get two screaming blood monkeys that look basically the same. Mate check
