cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

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      To be fair, everything out of his mouth is a lie. He told us he was going to do many things.

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    Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.

    Well, you voted Trump, now you get to milk it for all it’s worth. At 4 AM.

    Get rekt, and pay a living wage next time you try and start a business.

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    I mean, if you hire illegal immigrants you have to know someday you might lose those employees. The key is in the name: illegal.

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      Which is usually a benefit for them. You call enforcement when they start talking about labor conditions or unions.

      The fascists are morons and overplayed their hand.

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    My parents used to export fruits For a brief moment, I worked for the family business and had the pleasure of meeting some of these people.

    I met a farmer that sold cherries. Over dinner he was telling me how pissed he was about Mexicans taking jobs away from Americans.

    When pressed on why he doesn’t just hire Americans, he said no Americans wants to work minimum wage to pick cherries for 10 hours a day.

    My dad has been trying to convince him for years that his rhetoric is ultimately going to hurt his livelihood. But his patriotism/ tribalism outweighs all logic.

    No idea how he is doing now, but I imagine he just let his fruit drop this year.

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    Ah yes, making America Great Again. By bringing us back to a time period in which everyone in the household worked on the farm. Kids didn’t go to school during planting and harvesting. Ditto for milking season. Better pump out six kids so you can have farm hands!

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    I wanted a new piercing but now I have a hole in my body with a piece of metal in it and am out $100. How could this go so wrong‽

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    HAHAHAHA! Hire some MAGA fuckers to help you out. The real shame, the asswipes hiring the illegals should be prosecuted too.

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    Now they can find a cliff and jump! That would solve the country’s issue with stupidity and solve many national security concerns.

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    You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.

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      To be fair, they have been targeted very precisely with a military psychological operation that is explicitly geared to striking fear into the vulnerable and building poor political choices off of that fear.

      Yes, they’re incredibly arrogant, violent, and stupid, but MAGA (and it’s prequel; Brexit) works off of fear and not much else. Maybe if they really like country music I guess that could be a thing. Or flags. It sure as hell doesn’t work off of reason or logic, obviously.

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      Yea but like that one trans athlete won a race and the bitch that finished 5th was blonde so like, cant have that

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      Most of the crime from illegal migrants is from farm labourers, they should certainly have expected them to be targeted.

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    Yeah, because Vermont had so many issues at the Canafian border… and “gangbangers” are such a big problem in rural areas lol

    GET FUCKED.

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      Exploiting how? They were paid employees. Employed by idiots, obviously, but that in itself is not exploitative.

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        If they’re milking their own cows at 4 A.M. and complaining that there’s no migrants to do the work, then one has to wonder if it’s because they couldn’t hire a citizen at the rates they were paying. If they can’t hire a citizen at the rates they’re paying well…

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          …it means that citizens are too far above manual labor. Still doesn’t necessitate exploitation.

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            It doesn’t necessarily mean that at all, that is your own personal opinion, not fact. Pay people a decent livable wage and they will perform your manual labour.

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                Obviously not. That’s why they can’t hire people that aren’t at risk and exploitable.

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                  This is why they want to fill the tech sector with h1b migrants. If they lose their job, they have a narrow window to find another corporate sponsor, or they get deported. This makes even the well paying, white collar, market exploitable in the same way we exploit migrant labor for farms.

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        “A red is any son-of-a-bitch that wants thirty cents an hour when we’re payin’ twenty-five!”

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        This doesn’t feel like a genuine question, because it’s an open secret that a majority of american restaurants, farms, and construction outfits run on migrant labor at below minimum wage. I personally work in construction in Oregon, and I’m well aware of this, even hundreds of miles from a boarder.

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          I’m not American, so other than random articles I see shared on various social media of questionable reputation, I don’t know. So yes, it’s a genuine question.