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.
So slaves?
So he’s thinking about a soft sell on “Slavery Lite” then. Do you guys remember the days when a president could do something like this and it would IMMEDIATELY mean the absolute end of their political career? I miss that. I miss that so much.
Oh… So… Slavery, then? But, you know, without calling slavery outright.
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?
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?
No, you don’t understand. This will have the Trump name, so it’s different.
-Idiots
Lets see how long it will take some red neck farmers to abuse the system and threaten their workers with “work more or I will get you deported” kind of threats.
That’s been reported already. Already happened.
well I guess that will now start happening to legal immigrants as well since being a legal immigrant does not stop ICE from kidnapping you apparently
Sort of always been that way. Most of our immigrant purges have been.
It’s really hard to tell someone’s legal status just from looking at them, but most people can identify a race on sight alone.
That’s already been happening for a hundred years.
That’s just slavery with extra steps.
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.
Ignoring all the other obvious issues… How would this even work if these gestapo fuckers are rounding people up at Home Depot and court houses and routine traffic stops? These farms will just continue to bleed legal and undocumented migrants, regardless of whether they’re directly raiding a farm.
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
Heinous country. Imagine being such a horrible place that you mistreat the ones that feed you.
I’m all for shitting on my shit country, but mistreating farmers is pretty common globally
I’m talking about these “farmers” mistreating their workers, exploiting undocumented immigrants, and so on.
Has a single one of these
plantationfarm owners been arrested for employing the undocumented workers?Farmers: “All hail King Donald! He solved the problem he himself caused! What a business GENIUS!”
Face Eating Leopards: “Munch! Chew! Nom!”
“Employ”
