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Then they should hire Americans
They've tried. They can't abuse American workers the way they do immigrant workers.
So should we allow immigrants in illegally so they can be abused?
We should institute an agriculture work visa that includes a Spanish language lesson on their rights and go after the corporations that make them work in the fields while pesticide is being sprayed.
This is brilliant. Absolutely this should be a thing.
Then no one would hire them
Well they have to hire someone if they want to make money. If they throw us into a food crisis because we won't let them abuse people then we'll just nationalize the fields.
Okay, now you’re just trying to turn me on.
I wouldn't be turned on by that. America can legally use prison labor as slave labor.
Yeah, you're right. We should just abuse the ones already here by putting them in concentration camps- oh wait, that's the plan!
Looks like all the trolls came out today 🤡
You should look up what Stephen Colbert did in 2010.
There was an organization that would take any American that wanted to be a farm worker, and connect them with local farms. Even paid decently, better than a lot of wage slave jobs. Not genuinely good, but like $15/hour back then.
As Colbert testified about it to Congress, "Please don't make me do this again. It is really, really hard." Americans really don't want to do it.
This isn't even the first time produce has rotten in the fields due to a Trump immigration threat. I distinctly remember reading about tomatoes rotting on the vine in the deep south, probably around 2017.
Georgia, when they implemented the LiveScan law around 2011. I was there.
Edit: Shaka, when the walls fell.
All that means is that $15 an hour over the course of a growing season is not enough to support a family and put down roots.
The very concept of "migrant" labor is flawed - its dehumanizing and precarious. People need a means of supporting themselves year around.
Not only do agricultural corporations need to accept slimmer profit margins and higher wage expenses, but an entirely new support structure is required to maintain the workforce in agricultural communities during the off seasons.
Seasonal work needs to be paid as year round work, people have migrated to get work for millenia. If folks were paid properly then this wouldnt be a problem. Hell my 2x great grandfather took great advantage of this by building up a team of seasonal workers who would always come back, also one of them was paid in guns which he then smuggled into Ireland for the revolution.
No I don't listen to Colbert
Explains why you’re so uninformed and uneducated.
You can pay what you want the average American is not willing to do farm work because they got educated and want to use that education. Picking berries or whatever in the hot sun for 12h isn't it. Until you start paying so much you raise prices 10x or more and that doesn't work when you're in a globalized economy, no one is going to pay $80 for strawberries when they can get them for $8.
More so these workers need to be regulated and that requires some form of legality and documentation.
Oh, this won't be an issue for much longer. 😎
/s but not really
That should help grocery costs go down, right?!?
Oh right, we should allow them in the country illegally so they can get slave wages to pick cotton... I mean do ag jobs
No, we should make the process for naturalization reasonable and set honest expectations for cost of living.
They are gonna arrest them, put them in prison and sell them as slaves back to the restaurant. You been living under a rock?
You're sure doing hard work in this thread today... Speaking of fair wages, I hope you're paid handsomely for your efforts.
Otherwise you're just a fool for shilling for capitalism for free.
No, we should allow all immigrants. Open the border. I'm not kidding. There can't be illegal immigrants if they're all legal.
That's what's been going on the last 4 years lol
It literally hasn't.
You can't actually be this ignorant, right?
They aren’t willing to pay living wages
Pretty sure the idea is to use prison labor.
Even California, liberal strong hold, loves slave labor and voted to keep it recently. We are just terrible and we have low standards.