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[–] 3 points 2 days ago

The solution to this problem is not to end immigration but to: ensure that the minimum wage is more than a poverty wage; ensure that migrant workers join unions where available; ensure that migrant workers have the same rights as non-migrant workers and are not afraid of being brutalised by immigration police and being sent home if they lose their job; ensure that undocumented migrants are given a route to become legal and documented citizens to undermine modern day slavery and cash-in-hand tax avoiding bosses.

Demonising migrants and empowering the state to deport them en masse and brutalise them just causes more wage suppression as immigrant workers never fight against their bosses alongside non-migrant workers and accept worse pay and working conditions in order to keep their job and immigration status.

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