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'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers (www.rawstory.com)
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[+] -41 points 1 year ago (11 children)

The fuck are you talking about? It's the Democrats saying we need a slave class, that we can't deport them, not the Republicans.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Psst: the deranged focus on deporting every single undocumented immigrant actually makes it easier for employers to exploit undocumented immigrants. You can’t threaten to deport someone for organizing labor if the government is only deporting criminals.

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  • [+] -28 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    The vast majority of the immigrants being deported are being forced to leave against their will. Why do you think they should have no say in the matter? Forced deportation is violent and cruel, and results in the separation of families.

    If either party actually cared about the people, or budgets, or morality, instead of spending tens of thousands of dollars to remove each person, they would just check them in, have them sign a piece of paper, and grant them legal status.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    25 downvotes, no upvotes?

    Downvotes don't change the past and the fact that Democrats enabled slavery.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Sorry but I didn't mean it in that historic perspective and neither did OP.

    It doesn't matter what people say, it's important what happens. By keeping illegal immigrants in their exploitive conditions, and by e.g. not prosecuting those who employ illegal immigrants, the Democrats created the current situation, together with the Republicans. The Democrats are complicit.

    Nevertheless, those are interesting links.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Ah, sorry, that makes sense. If you didn't know, there's a common Republican talking point that – because the Democrats were the racist slavers in the 1800s and the Repuublicans the progressive abolitionists – the modern-day Democrats are the real racists because like, like, uh, look at what they did 160 years ago! Completely ignoring, of course, the context I linked to above.

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