AI6YR BenKPBS: Worksite immigration raids are supposed to free up jobs for citizens. Here’s what really happens
(Personal commentary: there are extremely few US citizens who would take ANY of these jobs)
Futuristic Robert [KJ5ELX] 
@ai6yr almost a half century of disparaging construction jobs and other Trade jobs in popular culture has a tendency to do that. That and driving wages way way down.
MissConstrue@ai6yr I was at the Main Street cafe a while back, and there were some yeehawdists at the table behind me going off about how Mexicans were taking their jobs, and I turned around and said, “Son, I know five farms that need help right now. I can make a phone call and you can be in the field in an hour. Now, bring a hat, it’s hot out here in the sun all day. And gloves, those plants will tear you up. To make minimum wage, you’ll have to hustle, you get paid by the bushel. You wanna finish lunch and go pick some maters, or you wanna shut the fuck up so I can eat my chicken fried steak in peace?”
They shut the fuck up. Silence until they left. And the cook sent me a peach cobbler. 🥳
EndicottRoad59@MissConstrue @ai6yr Well done!
ZenHeathen@MissConstrue This is the way. @ai6yr
@ZenHeathen @ai6yr To be fair, I probably didn't get pushback because I was old enough to be their mother, and southern men revere their mommas. Even though we will chase you with a broom, and you don't even have to be our kid. ;)
@MissConstrue Also, entirely appropriate. I salute this approach. @ai6yr
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Succubusted Anarschism@MissConstrue @ZenHeathen @ai6yr
If you're a southern mom, I'd imagine you'd have used the phrase "Bless your heart" before "son" LOL.
But you touched on something a lot of people don't get, and that is the slave conditions of these jobs.
Employers in these fields (pun intended) are complaining that ICE is taking away their employees because white people don't want to work these shit jobs for less than minimum wage.
What they mean is ICE is taking their slaves.
White people would most likely do those jobs for 30 bucks an hour.
@CosmickTrigger @ZenHeathen @ai6yr
There are many things about this current regime of nationalists that bother me, but high on the list is:
No employers of "undocumented" workers have been arrested. Not one.
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MinmiTheDino@MissConstrue @CosmickTrigger @ZenHeathen @ai6yr
THIS. PART.
It’s impossible for a worker to steal a job. But an employer can absolutely give a job to someone they believe they can exploit over someone they can’t.
So who should be held accountable?
@minmi @CosmickTrigger @ZenHeathen @ai6yr Well, certainly not massive agribusiness, meat processors and garment factory owners. They all donate to the GOP, ergo they’ve already bought dispensation for future sins.
It’s a cult, and one that really hates everything American promotes itself as being.
It’s a cult, and one that really hates everything American promotes itself as being.
@minmi @CosmickTrigger @ZenHeathen @ai6yr Oh, and don’t forget our “Housing Secretary” is a Pulte, the owner of one of the three largest home builders in the nation.
Pulte is a billionaire based on the bent backs of Latinos. I’ve built two houses from the ground up (as the GC), and repaired another after a tornado. There is no construction in this country without Latinos.
suzanne@MissConstrue @ai6yr
Restaurant/kitchen jobs are a lot easier than field work but I've had a few where white people were in the minority and I was one of even fewer who lasted very long.
Restaurant/kitchen jobs are a lot easier than field work but I've had a few where white people were in the minority and I was one of even fewer who lasted very long.
Duchamp Pérez@cshlan @ai6yr @MissConstrue In my experience, the ones that last long are the ones who show life long solidarity
sasutina13a 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 🌐@MissConstrue I don't know how it could be so difficult for them. I picked prunes, and picked, cut, and dried cots. It was hot work, being done in the summer and fall, but it wasn't so difficult.
@MissConstrue @ai6yr Good for you!
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Havyhh2@ai6yr @MissConstrue 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
victor tsaran@MissConstrue @ZBennoui @ai6yr Thanks for saying that. I am so surprised that it is so not understood by those who eat off the immigrants' hands as if those pro-Americans are ready to go into the fields and pick vegetables or work in the meat factories, etc. Perhaps we need to be saying this more and everywhere..
@MissConstrue @ai6yr tellem like it is.
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Haskell@MissConstrue @ai6yr Good for you!!!🎯
@MissConstrue @ai6yr I checked your profile and I cannot believe you could be wrong about much. Just saying with no motivation outside of respect, lady glad people like you exist.
@Micritone45 @ai6yr Awh. 
I'm wrong all the time, I just hope I learn from it when I am, rather than insisting that I'm right. :)
I'm wrong all the time, I just hope I learn from it when I am, rather than insisting that I'm right. :)
Ben Rosengart
Collette Lynner@MissConstrue @ai6yr TWENTY POINTS for “yeehawdists”
Ha! Thanks. My goal is to join Cory in having a word added to the dictionary. ;) (I jest...unless it's the OED in which case, oh dear Bob, please oh please?)
I mean, one day, I'm likely to let my alligator mouth overload my hummingbird rearend when I embarrass one of these men in public, but that's not gonna stop me from telling beer-bellied yeehawdists who are strapped up for war at the piggly-wiggly with their shiny never fired long guns: "bless your heart darlin', I'm so sorry about your penis" in my absolute best Deep South Baptist grandma accent as I pass them in the aisle.
Because I can. And because they're silly people carrying weapons of war they don't know how to use, and I'm going to make fun of them for doing it until they're embarrassed enough to stop. 😇
Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈@MissConstrue @ai6yr
When I was a local reporter, I went out into the fields one day to get some photos of asparagus cutters at work.
I was a fairly healthy white girl, and there was NO WAY I could dream of keeping up with the cutters. They were skilled, fast, and very amused at my attempts to get good images of them. They didn't have time to pose, nor did I ask them to (I did ask permission to take their photos).
I was exhausted after a few minutes. They did that for hours at a time.
My stepfather's mother grew up as a sharecropper's kid. Her brother owned a small farm. Once I was about 7 or 8, they would take me up to the farm for each season, and I'd spend a day picking/planting whatever it was we were growing that season. Don't get me wrong, they were out there too. (Well not my mother, perish the very idea.)
But most of the work was done by the family that lived on the part of the farm they bought from Uncle Mortimer back before TV was invented.
Granny said that it was important for me to understand where food comes from, and what it takes to get it from seed to table. I have never underappreciated produce, I tell you what. That is backbreaking, repetitive, hot, dangerous work.
(Postscript: When Uncle Mortimer died, he willed the farm to the family who had worked the farm alongside him all those years. And nobody (except my mother) was unhappy with that decision.
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SooJinL ⚽️🐈🫖🚲🧶🪡😷@ai6yr My parents had us spend summers at various relatives’ farms and ranches. Weeding and pulling root vegetables is back-breaking work, even for teenagers. Worse is raising chickens, the smell is unbelievable until you’ve experienced it. Even ranching is rough, with long days in the saddle or on an ATV keeping an eye on the horses or cattle. Reinforced going to college.
Only those who have never lifted a finger to support themselves think everyone else will jump at these jobs 🤬
Only those who have never lifted a finger to support themselves think everyone else will jump at these jobs 🤬
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LisPi@ai6yr Now the question: Will they raise wages until people are interested, or will USA resort to typical USA solutions and bring slavery into it somehow?
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