Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.
Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.
Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.
Lets see how long it will take some red neck farmers to abuse the system and threaten their workers with “work more or I will get you deported” kind of threats.
That’s always been the system. That’s how they keep the wages so low.
That’s been reported already. Already happened.
well I guess that will now start happening to legal immigrants as well since being a legal immigrant does not stop ICE from kidnapping you apparently
Sort of always been that way. Most of our immigrant purges have been.
It’s really hard to tell someone’s legal status just from looking at them, but most people can identify a race on sight alone.
That’s already been happening for a hundred years.