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Trump Has Promised to Build More Ships. He May Deport the Workers Who Help Make Them. (www.propublica.org)

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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to increase the pace of U.S. military shipbuilding. But his pledge to also clamp down on immigration could make it hard for shipyards already facing workforce shortages.

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[–] fishabel@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago

Those immigrants will never be deported. They will be round up, put in camps, and made to work off their detainment debt for pennys per day as their labor is sold to the ship yard at a fraction of the cost they paid before.