President Donald Trump received backlash from supporters on Thursday after he proposed legislation that would allow migrant workers who entered the United States illegally to remain.
Trump announced he was “working on legislation right now,” which would allow illegal workers to stay, telling supporters at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, “You had cases where, not here, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years and they get thrown out pretty viciously and we can’t do it. We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties too.”
I’ll say the same thing I said in the other thread.
There’s a reason why past Presidents have avoided this subject like it was the fucking plague.
An unspoken truth about our society that nobody likes to acknowledge or admit is that the exploitation of cheap labor (particularly in agriculture and construction) is literally the cornerstone of our society that everything else is built on. Before we were exploiting undocumented workers, we had literal slavery. There has never been a point in US history where agricultural workers were getting anything close to fair pay for the work they do, nor have citizens ever had to pay the prices they’d have to pay if workers were getting paid fairly.
You can’t claim to crack down on immigration, and then make huge carve-outs for farmers, hotel workers, etc., because that’s where the majority of them work. Trump is finding this out the hard way. He has to look tough on immigration to please his base, but even he acknowledges that it would devastate our entire agricultural system.
If you leave these industries alone, you are essentially and willfully turning a blind eye to the numerous legal and ethical violations these farmers commit on the daily, including sub-minimum pay, no benefits, hazardous working conditions, etc. You also appear to be weak on immigration to the general public, who see the policy as an open invitation for even more illegal migration.
If you were to try to force these industries to use legal labor under fair working conditions, the price of the goods and services they provide would be unacceptable to a general public who does not understand the true costs of labor and have never had to pay what the true cost of food would be if workers were paid fairly, and may not be able to pay it even if they were willing to accept it.
This is not a problem that is unique to Trump, though I’m sure he’ll find new and innovative ways to make the whole situation exponentially worse. This is a problem that has existed throughout US history, and there’s a reason why past Presidents have done little more to address the subject than pay some lip service that they never actually act on. Try to do so and you quickly figure out that the entire cornerstone of our society and economy literally relies on people turning a blind eye to this exact issue, and attempting to fix the problem – no matter what you think the ‘solution’ to the problem even is or what side of the issue you’re on – just risks causing ripple effects that bring the entire economy crashing down like a crack addict trying to play Jenga.
How many of these Trump supporters are lining up for a job previously held by an immigrant on a farm?
Are they so angry with him they are ready to voter for a democrat? No? Thought so.
They might vote for a Democrat, at least the ones with penises. But voting for a lady is a step too far…
TACO tuesday again?
Looking for the chart of Most Slammed Presidents Since 1952.
When we say fascism always destroys itself, it’s shit like this. Piss off your followers or starve them.
Meanwhile Loomer is there demanding everyone with brown skin be deported through a concentration camp.