Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.
Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.
Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.
So he’s thinking about a soft sell on “Slavery Lite” then. Do you guys remember the days when a president could do something like this and it would IMMEDIATELY mean the absolute end of their political career? I miss that. I miss that so much.
Lets see how long it will take some red neck farmers to abuse the system and threaten their workers with “work more or I will get you deported” kind of threats.
That’s always been the system. That’s how they keep the wages so low.
Ahh, yes.
I think the U.S. used to have a system where the farmers assumed responsibility for people who weren’t citizens but worked for them.
What was that called again?
So slaves?
