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They want migrants to come work the hardest, shittiest jobs but they want them to all live in the crappy housing outside the city limits because the townsfolk don't actually consider immigrants to be human beings. That was the gist of the article as I read it anyway...
Sounds like MAGAts.
A lot of words for modern day slavery supporters.
And don’t forget have no rights so that if they step out of line, they get deported. Permanent underclass.
Ask these same people whether these workers deserve protections (e.g. a union), health benefits, or other safety nets and they’ll scream and shout.
Nothings changed since the hawks nest tunnel
Seems like a repeating of history, but for a different race
funny how one of the easiest methods of finding illegal immigrants is to investigate business owners.. but how often do they ever go to jail for hiring illegal workers?
this story right here.. they admit to requiring, and hiring an illegal work force but no job creator is going to jail for that illegal act..
no, its the workers they need that should be punished?!
Similar to punishing the prostitutes instead of the people who pay for their services. Easier to pick on the less fortunate.
My family used to export cherries from WA state cherries into China. We have met farmers who literally hate Mexicans but hire them each season. One of his many stupid reasons was because they are taking jobs away from the locals. When I asked him point blank why doesn't he just hire non-mexicans he said no locals want to work picking cherries regardless how much he pays.
I said to him if there is no demand for these jobs, who are the people that are taking the jobs from? His answer was... "Um... I guess I never looked at it that way."
I also added that these migrant works are quite literally keeping food on your table. Without them he would have to drop the cherries each year(drop means they claim insurance and just let the fruit rot). He didn't say anything after this. I think I struct a nerve.
I don't think I believe your story simply because I have yet to encounter a conservative who would respond to direct questioning like that. I think if this really happened he would have called you a commie and walked away. I would love to be wrong about that though.
I'm not here to convince you.
I will add that these farmers have been working with us for years and we are not strangers. So there are years of relationship prior to me talking about politics with him.
A lot of them fail to take the next step in logic. Like “I don’t trust the mainstream media.” Ask them who they get their news from. Then ask them, if that was the main news source for everyone, wouldn’t that make them the mainstream media?
I'm not a conservative, and I actually like some of the things they'd call mainstream like AP, NYTimes, The Atlantic, but even I don't follow that logic... It would make them the mainstream, but they're not the main news source for everyone, so ... they're not the mainstream media.
Modern farmers tend to be fairly well educated. How much exposure they have to a non GOP narrative on the other hand...
They'd have to actively search out dem and left views. Their church is probably GOP, their neighbors are probably GOP, their radio is definitely GOP, their local news networks are GOP.
The GOP has a stranglehold on rural areas for a reason and it isn't by making things better for their constituents. It is by near perfect control over the information they get most conveniently. People don't tend to search out the opposing view and if they do they're already biased towards the one they heard first.
This is the same Nebraska that depended on pork and soy exports to Gyna that “Stable Genius” destroyed to play his easy-to-win trade wars. Not sure what he got in return but Nebraska farmers lost bigly. Still they voted for repubes.
Absolutely no sympathy when these asshats inevitably go out of business.
The conglomerates won that one, they bought all the small farms.
Actually lets keep doing that, after all we want to give people what they voted for
Though when they fail, the price of groceries will go up, primarily affecting those who can least afford it. It is all a tangled, interconnected web:-(.
I want these people to be free to live however they wish. But I do NOT agree that their votes should be worth several magnitudes more than mine:-(.
Fuckem.
Not sure how legally binding the declaration is, but that's neither here nor there. The answer is simple, let the town die. If they want to get their panties in a knot about migrants, then let'em work the shitty job themselves, and when they don't, any businesses worth having around can relocate somewhere that won't self-sabotage just to make a statement.
Mark Jensen, president of the shitty council, needs to wake the fuck up. If they need those jobs then one way or another they need to retain people who will do those jobs, instead of antagonizing them.
They want the work but not the worker? Are they saying they want slaves? 👀
Why don't they sponsor those migrants then?
Because then they'd be legal and you couldn't pay them slave wage
I’m so disappointed in my hometown. This isn’t who they raised me to be and I’m glad I left in the 90s.
As somebody who used to live near it I can't imagine wanting to live there anyway.
We ended the southern occupation too soon.
Sherman didn't go far enough