Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.
Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.
Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.
That’s just slavery with extra steps.
Farmers: “All hail King Donald! He solved the problem he himself caused! What a business GENIUS!”
Face Eating Leopards: “Munch! Chew! Nom!”
My official guess for the name of this new slavery program is the “Essential Guest Worker” bill/order.
I’ve said it before but before I die I fully expect to see some sort of “Right to Labor” (or something) law where companies can press unemployed people into “employment” for prison wages.
No, brand it the way he likes, call it “Trump Slaves”.
They’re all just making shit up as they go along, aren’t they?
Not exactly made up. Slavery is a real thing.
I meant in terms of ‘policy decisions’. They change with the wind.
So slaves?
Yeah, not surprised at the Orange Blunder finding a way to bring back slavery. Oh his cronies will think up a different name for it, but soon these poor people will be segregated and counted as ⅗ of a person for purposes of population counting when drawing up political districts.
At this rate we are going to end up with Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo before Christmas…
Edit: Correction of fractions, the historical amount was ⅗, not ⅕.
3/5 was a compromise… Orange will round down to the nearest whole number
1/5th? Worse than slaves.
Your right, I double checked the number and I misremembered, it should be ⅗ not ⅕.
If the labor that is necessary for feeding people can’t exist without undocumented workers, then perhaps the system itself is fundamentally broken if there is no easy path to citizenship.
You cannot have it both ways, Trump. Either it’s easy to come here and get papered up and nobody gets deported (and he loses his ultimate scapegoat), or it’s just as hard as it is now and we deport everyone working the fields and starve.
He can have it both ways. He is just going to say the farmers are heros for “taking the risk” and “protecting us all” from the violent cohort that is required to get our food to table now. Immigrants can be the enemy even more than ever, his base gets to eat up a new form of cognitive dissonance like a brain tumor, all will be well this time next year for them.
Ahh, yes.
I think the U.S. used to have a system where the farmers assumed responsibility for people who weren’t citizens but worked for them.
What was that called again?
What was that called again?
sTaTeS riGhTs!
3/5ths
that was for actual citizens
that was for
actual citizenspropertyFixed it for you.
Oh, so like visa sponsorship? The thing that already exists?
It will be worse, because in the very vague details as this is being discussed, this will formally tie them to an employer, so they won’t be able to seek employment that doesn’t hire “illegals”, and basically lets employers deport people.
A visa is a contract between the immigrant and the state, with the employer acting as a third party, not as an intermediary. This is indentured servitude, basically formalising the current system where these people are allowed in as long as they are only used to undercut local wages, but they can’t seek their own happiness and freedom.
No, you don’t understand. This will have the Trump name, so it’s different.
-Idiots
I would prefer the government to implement universal healthcare, and to make immigrants have it if they and their workplace are documented. Voila, we get rid of the REAL parasites: employers that pay less than minimum wage. It isn’t the migrants fault that companies are crappy stewards of civilization.
Has a single one of these
plantationfarm owners been arrested for employing the undocumented workers?Nope. They hire these people then call ICE on them when it’s payday. They got the fruits picked and didn’t have to pay a dime.
Yeah except the Visa program they use is tied to their employment. Big Ag has been holding people basically as indentured slaves, forcing them to live on the farm. Any disagreement, or refusal to perform as the owner wants and their status is void and they get sent back. The government has known for YEARS about this happening. Always turned a blind eye, and now they have removed any avenue to permanent legal status in the US from that very visa program. So, want to live, or flee from oppression to the US? Well, now they’ll oppress you.
Source
Invidious: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=1COm0C73CKw Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1COm0C73CKw
In the US? You’re gonna get indentured servitude
Slavery with extra steps…
TACO again. Faced with collapse of the food bowl which was obvious……
TACO
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