• Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The whole reason immigration is in shambles and border is being overrun is republicans policies over past 2 decades.

    I thought it was America’s full heroin like addiction to cheap migrant labor. Let’s be real Republicans and Democrats know that the US economy will grind to a hault if ppl stopped crossing the border. The fact congress won’t make work visas for farm laborers less convoluted and backwards is on purpose. You can’t have things like labor laws stopping that 11 year Mexican kid picking strawberries for $2 an hour

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        5 months ago

        Yup. Immigration authorities know they can pick random farms in certain regions and round up the entire workforce as working without a visa. Enforcing this would grind agriculture to a halt in many states.

        Nobody actually wants that, including the farm owners who tend to vote Trump and complain about the “illegals” working for them. So they do a few raids now and then to look like they’re doing something. Meanwhile, the workers aren’t allowed to take water breaks in humid >90F weather.