Never accuse American immigration policy of either intelligence or foresight.
Farming, construction, landscaping, etc all need undocumented labor over 'legal' labor, all around the country, but especially in farm country. Do you really believe that they honestly do not want migrant labor coming over the borders?
No payroll taxes/benefits, and undocumented workers are much easier to exploit. They are highly unlikely to go to the cops about anything criminal that happens on the job, or to OSHA about any workplace safety violations, or to the district attorney about wage theft, and so on. They fear getting deported or tossed in jail. They're also socially isolated by various barriers - language, racial prejudice, and so on...so word of shady stuff going on is a lot less likely to make its way out. Don't want anyone to find out about your toxic waste dumping? Have your migrant workers do it.
Also, migrant workers will do a lot of shit jobs that a lot of Americans just don't want to do, or at least not at fair market value labor rates that the business would be "sustainable" at.
Meanwhile, politicians shout about how that migrant worker is stealing your job and so on. So they get the $$$ from the people who want exploitable labor, and the votes from the Pickup Truck Petes who think those "illegals" are "stealin' our jobs" and so on.
It's not far off from why education is so poorly funded and constantly under various attacks in the US. There's a lot of wealthy people who want easily manipulated, uneducated, trapped-in-poverty workers to exploit. This is also why abortion is under constant attack; access to family planning is a huge factor to people escaping poverty.
I think it's a lot less wealthy people are evil and a lot more they just don't want to pay for these things.
Very few people benefit from a poorly educated society.
But the top 1% pay for 38.8% of Federal taxes. It's more about not wanting to pay $100k+ in taxes and less about being evil and wanting your countrymen to be dumb and poor so you can exploit them.
Sure, some wealthy people are literally villains. Most of them aren't. Even the ones who vote for said policies. It's more greed than evil.
Does this sounds like convincing or meaningfull distinction to anyone? Like you could say the same about drug lords and mafia bosses.
Except the rair psyco, no-one does something evil just because they are evil. Like all crimes are comitted out of greed, or jealousy, etc.
"But the top 1% pay for 38.8% of Federal taxes."
But that's mathematically inevitable if they have >30% of all wealth - if they (hypothetically) would earn 100% of all the money, they would pay 100% of all the taxes.
Drug lords and mafia bosses are literally overseeing murders on a regular basis. The business is inherently shady.
I think there's a difference between not wanting to finance someone's welfare and breaking their kneecaps or killing them if they're late on a payment.
The distinction between greed and evil is pointless. Evil isn't a cartoon villain scheming to harm others, evil is boring and banal and happens every day. Evil is the negative externalities of decisions that are made for some greater purpose whether it's national security, profit, or greater benefit to society.
The post above talks about agriculture industry exploiting vulnerable people without legal status for hard labour and without access to healrhcare. They quote literally do cause people to die for profit.
It the other way round -thje ageicuulture industry steals from these people - it steals their health and future earning. If a business makes money by causing death, it is basically pillaging. Its like owning serfs or debt bondage
The philosophical jury's out on whether it's a difference with meaning, but we seem to feel in our guts it is. Our guts are products of evolution, not reason.
The US issued 200k+ seasonal visas last year for exactly this, it’s very legal.
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
It’s not poorly funded. The US spends the second most in the world per kid, we just get so little out of each dollar.
Above a fairly low threshold, spending is largely independent of school success.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-half-us-farmworkers-undocume...
That's not need, that's choice. They could pay higher wages and provide better working conditions.
For the most part, right now that money is going toward automating everything possible, including fruit and vegetable picking, replacing those jobs altogether in the long term.
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