Wanna bet that he uses the immigrants in the camps? Meaning, slave labor.
That’s the only way it’s gonna work, because no immigrant is going to trust this Administration at its word. These poor folks can do everything correctly, by the book, and Trump can still say “Sike! Off you go to CECOT”
Exactly. Probably by design.
According to the 13th Amendment:
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Arrest the migrant workers. Funnel them through a for profit prison. Rent the workers to the same farms as slave labor and pocket what would normally have been their wages.
Wish I didn’t see this as a highly likely scenario.
What’s that you say, former citizen with no constitutional rights?
Silly you thinking that it could be limited to “immigrants”.
The duly convicted part will only slow them down. I’m sure they’ll establish new immigration courts or appoint new, loyal judges who will render a verdict every 5 minutes if asked.
Wait, just hear me out, if we wait for the concentration camps to fill up with immigrants and political prisoners, they can provide the same labor FOR FREE while also providing a nice sum for the private prison firms that, in turn, grease the prison-to-profit machine!
All this with the added bonus that some of the labor will already be skilled. It’s brilliant!!
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Also I doubt farmers want prisoners with grudges going about their property. Best case scenario they damage something accidentally and don’t say anything which could become quite expensive depending on the thing that got broken, for example a water valve. Worst case scenario they go out of their way to break shit and basically the same problem but intentional and coordinated. Also I doubt the guards would be much better.
When they find reasons to keep certain immigrants, deportations of others will increase to take up the slack. Every American, even multi-generation born and raised should be afraid. Trump and his Republican administration isn’t constrained by either the law or the constitution. He has proven that the US has no mechanism for stopping him from doing whatever the hell he wants.
I bet I could be on the chopping block…I dunno how good their digital foot printing it is, but if it is good then they will know I really, really, really, really, really, really hate Trump.
I could see my citizenship being questioned because of how I was born. I could also see them passing a law that would force me choice between my dual nationalities.
FYI folks I was born to a US service member.
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I think we all want to be paid a fair wage for our labor AND and fair price for food, with reasonable expectations of safety on both sides. 50+ years of wage stagnation and the expectation from major corpos that they can keep extracting more profits are two factors working against us, though. The problem isn’t about what consumers are willing to pay for food.
We, the People, aren’t going to be able to fix this if we don’t start electing leaders that can resist big-dollar donors and lobbyists, because we need regulations around major markets that will be met with insane amounts of resistance by money-backed interest groups. We need labor reforms, we need housing reforms, we need finance sector reforms, and none of those are favorable for a Fortune 500 company’s “Line go up” policy when implemented. But far too much money has flowed out of the hands of the poor and middle class while the ultra-wealthy are buying islands and yachts (and bugout bunkers in case of an uprising or whatever), and fixing that issue in both an acute and a systemic way is necessary and needs to happen before we get better.
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I feel like your entire post is ignoring the hoarding of wealth at the top while focusing on the financial impacts that would happen to the people at the bottom due to the aforementioned greed at the top. Those people “who have no idea how much their food would cost if they were paying the workers a fair wage” have also never been paid a fair wage.
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That last part is where we disagree. You are underestimating the wealth extraction that has taken place during the post-WWII boom. I’m not going to argue further because I’m going to bed, but I’ll suffice to agree to disagree.
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Why can’t the government subsidize food prices or farm wages? I mean it beats wasting it on tax breaks for billionaires and weapons for Israel.
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The USA has about 20% of the world’s prison population and only around 4% of the world’s population.
Looks like we found our solution!
Round them up, then make them work the same jobs for free. Just like they planned. Just like we predicted.
Fuck America and their industry
Like, a final solution?
