Ring footage shows an agent pulling his gun on her, after which he shoves her down multiple times, pushes her back into house & slams the door.
All because she was asking for proof of a warrant. They refused to even give their names & badge numbers.
Ring footage shows an agent pulling his gun on her, after which he shoves her down multiple times, pushes her back into house & slams the door.
All because she was asking for proof of a warrant. They refused to even give their names & badge numbers.
That’s just not how the economy works.
The people that immigrate work. They have labor value. They’re consumers too, they’re literally just people like you and me - and zooming out to macro economics that’s all we are. The human widgets in the machine.
Trying to blame immigrants for the ills of society is a fool’s errand.
Maybe instead of pumping up shareholder value in stocks, most of which are not owned or shared by the actual labor, there could be an increase of wages and benefits through taxation. Hell stocks could be given to the people who are making that revenue for the company and not to just like the pockets of the investor class who are literally making money by simply having it.
I don’t think people prefer to be exploited for their labor but when the USD goes farther than your local currency and you’re already in bad enough straights it is worth the hardship for those folks.
Also all of this is ignoring one very obvious fact. IT IS ILLEGAL TO HIRE UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANT WORKERS. Maybe … just maybe if the companies and farm owners followed the law they claim to care so much about the demand and the benefit of “illegal” immigration would cease to exist.
Its not about blame. Its about pointing out that all this excess value they contingently generate is basically absorbed only by the businesses that illegally or unethically employ them and the party in power of government that collects increased revenues with fewer obligations that they would be required from regular citizens and also a reduced incentive to solve actual domestic problems rather than let those pumped up government and business revenues/profits to make them look good rather than attenuate that with the actual real cost to citizens who bear the brunt of all of it.
Its a scam thru and thru but I’d love for you to point me objectively to how the businesses and government dont gain from this at the cost of the citizenry on the balance
The worst part is it works and it incentivizes businesses to pay the bribes and lobbying fees to keep the money train running and continually devaluing labor as time goes on. Nobody but strong unions can compete with that and the abillity of workers to reliably turn to that outlet or create it is severely legislated against and disincentivized culturally and in practical terms for actual sustainance workers
Edit: like, yes, in theory that would lead to lower prices for consumers if the labor to produce and bring the product to the consumers table is lower but who knows that information besides the companies and their shady practices? Whats stopping them from simply pocketing that differential and just using it to improve their profit margins? Why do you trust corps to the point you can be confident that we actually so rely on slave labor to have the goods and services we need when theres basically no accountabillity to the companies incentivized to increase their own margins at the expense of consumers and society.