I find it interesting that after days in office there have been no real mass roundups and deportations. The focus of attention has been on random border crossers, pro-Palestinian protesters exercising free speech, and supposed gang members.
Meanwhile, for example, the 53,000 meat packers and agribusiness workers in Nebraska have been unto…
I find it interesting that after days in office there have been no real mass roundups and deportations. The focus of attention has been on random border crossers, pro-Palestinian protesters exercising free speech, and supposed gang members.
Meanwhile, for example, the 53,000 meat packers and agribusiness workers in Nebraska have been untouched. The 1.2 million immigrant workers (mostly without papers) continue to build and roof houses, clean motels, and work in Florida's 12 month a year agricultural work. I suspect the same is true across the country.
What we do see is highly produced propaganda promoting the idea that serious deportations are happening.
Another sign is the haphazard way states are handling reports of companies employing undocumented workers. In Florida, supposedly among the harshest enforcers, few investigations of illegal hiring lead to any sanctions.
And, to me, this is the big tell. The entire "problem" of undocumented labor would be solved if the government would actually crack down on businesses employing those workers. Jobs is the principal magnet drawing workers here but instead of working to shut down the magnate and find ways of regularizing immigrant labor the government is demonizing, punishing and and humiliating the workers.
And why does it have to be that way? Because immigrant labor, both formal or informal, is essential to the American economy and we can't do without them.
I find it interesting that after days in office there have been no real mass roundups and deportations. The focus of attention has been on random border crossers, pro-Palestinian protesters exercising free speech, and supposed gang members.
Meanwhile, for example, the 53,000 meat packers and agribusiness workers in Nebraska have been untouched. The 1.2 million immigrant workers (mostly without papers) continue to build and roof houses, clean motels, and work in Florida's 12 month a year agricultural work. I suspect the same is true across the country.
What we do see is highly produced propaganda promoting the idea that serious deportations are happening.
Another sign is the haphazard way states are handling reports of companies employing undocumented workers. In Florida, supposedly among the harshest enforcers, few investigations of illegal hiring lead to any sanctions.
And, to me, this is the big tell. The entire "problem" of undocumented labor would be solved if the government would actually crack down on businesses employing those workers. Jobs is the principal magnet drawing workers here but instead of working to shut down the magnate and find ways of regularizing immigrant labor the government is demonizing, punishing and and humiliating the workers.
And why does it have to be that way? Because immigrant labor, both formal or informal, is essential to the American economy and we can't do without them.