Yeah, that’s the funny part about this whole thing.
The economy runs on the backs of cheap labor, upon skirting the rules and keeping costs down. Things will be very different when even the lowest of workers actually does have the right and ability to cost at least minimum wage, or more because your company is desperate after losing so much labor.
Unless their next trick is to find some ways to make a class of valid citizens as desperate as the deported they will need to replace…scary thought, innit?
I don’t doubt that part of the long-term plan is to keep stifling pay in order to make it so they can extract as much labor from citizens with supposed rights as the can and do from non-citizens without them, but I expect that they’ll primarily just do the same thing they’ve done in the past - make a big show of deporting people, then turn their backs when they just turn around and come back.
That serves two purposes - it ensures that the employers get their cheap labor back, and it provides for another round of “illegal” immigrant panic the next time the Republicans need to distract the base from their awful governing.
Yeah, that’s the funny part about this whole thing.
The economy runs on the backs of cheap labor, upon skirting the rules and keeping costs down. Things will be very different when even the lowest of workers actually does have the right and ability to cost at least minimum wage, or more because your company is desperate after losing so much labor.
Unless their next trick is to find some ways to make a class of valid citizens as desperate as the deported they will need to replace…scary thought, innit?
I don’t doubt that part of the long-term plan is to keep stifling pay in order to make it so they can extract as much labor from citizens with supposed rights as the can and do from non-citizens without them, but I expect that they’ll primarily just do the same thing they’ve done in the past - make a big show of deporting people, then turn their backs when they just turn around and come back.
That serves two purposes - it ensures that the employers get their cheap labor back, and it provides for another round of “illegal” immigrant panic the next time the Republicans need to distract the base from their awful governing.