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)
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. 🥳
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. ;)
Queen of Chaos (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.
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.