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Fucking seriously... We have this goddamn obsession with hating immigrants and blaming them for wage stagnation in a lot of sectors, but we NEVER talk about going after the people hiring them or putting the squeeze on us in every way imaginable...
Not to mention everyone I know bitches about "illegals" but wants to to fuck-all about solving the issue of immigration wait times... If it takes a decade to get through the process then maybe jusssssst maybe we address that?? Nahhh... That's communisocialivenezuela or something.
don't forget that the locals don't want to do the "stolen" jobs anyway
https://www.mic.com/articles/8272/alabama-illegal-immigrant-crackdown-destroys-farm-business
That's an absolutely valid point. I'm not American but in Ireland we get the same "foreigners are stealing our jobs" bullshit. I work in a meat processing plant. Most Irish new starts don't last the first week.
What jobs are they stealing? Jobs we won't do? We need immigrants, we aren't far away from a declining population. I don't understand how people thing that's an issue when our entire economy is propped up on migrant workers.