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[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 month ago

Huh.

All other issues aside, he still can't possibly be serious.

Even if he personally doesn't have any, the RNC certainly has a number of relatively big donors who are going to be mightily pissed when their cheap labor gets deported.

[-] PassingThrough@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that’s the funny part about this whole thing.

The economy runs on the backs of cheap labor, upon skirting the rules and keeping costs down. Things will be very different when even the lowest of workers actually does have the right and ability to cost at least minimum wage, or more because your company is desperate after losing so much labor.

Unless their next trick is to find some ways to make a class of valid citizens as desperate as the deported they will need to replace…scary thought, innit?

[-] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Probably they will overturn minimum wage laws and employ more prison slaves.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

I thought that is why they want to ban abortion.

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I don't doubt that part of the long-term plan is to keep stifling pay in order to make it so they can extract as much labor from citizens with supposed rights as the can and do from non-citizens without them, but I expect that they'll primarily just do the same thing they've done in the past - make a big show of deporting people, then turn their backs when they just turn around and come back.

That serves two purposes - it ensures that the employers get their cheap labor back, and it provides for another round of "illegal" immigrant panic the next time the Republicans need to distract the base from their awful governing.

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[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Keep going then to fix the problem. Mass jailing of all business owners who hire illegal immigrants. That’ll shut down all the farms, construction companies, hospitality industry, and on and on. No big shocker that the small businesses that most likely exploit illegal immigrants are right leaning.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Deporting 20 million undocumented workers will destroy agriculture in the US. Georgia tried that and it didn't work out for them. Florida tried that laat year and it went badly.

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They're going to replace those immigrant farm workers with slave labor from for-profit prisons when they start rounding up all the homeless.

[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Wonder if he endorses mass deportation of anyone of colonial descent who invaded these lands and stole it from the native people.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 6 points 1 month ago

Depends on how long history we look.

20 years? Immigrants go

500 years? US citizens go

1000 years? Aztecs go

20 000 years? All humans go (presumably)

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No. Jesus gave them this land, and everyone knows Jesus was white. Ask Megyn Kelly.

[-] krelvar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That 20,000,001st undocumented immigrant has to be SO relieved

[-] meleethecat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

This is why you let everyone else get off the airplane first.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

To be fair- and it would clearly be a disaster - but wages for American citizens would go up. As would the cost of literally everything, and our supply lines would be shattered.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Actually demand would crater after the economy collapses. Nominal wages would increase as we go into hyperinflation while adjusting for inflation real wages would be drop.

[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. Real wages would drop even with wage increases but at this point I've had zero raises in years to go along the inflation.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Many estimates place the total number of undocumented at around 11M are we going to deport most of them twice?

[-] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Naw, just anyone that fits insert Family Guy good/bad card the bill

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