Truckers threaten Florida boycott over immigration law - eviltoast
Calls for suspension of deliveries to and from the state on July 1 spread on social media.

Calls for suspension of deliveries to and from the state on July 1 spread on social media.

  • JasSmith@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m confused by this whole debacle. For decades, Democrats have been calling to end migrant exploitation. The largest vector for this, by far, is the use of illegal migrants. Employers pay them under the table, and pay far less than legal migrants. So Florida goes ahead and sets harsh penalties for any businesses hiring illegal migrants. Shouldn’t this be praised by everyone on the left?

    • HuddaBudda@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Because I don’t like solving problems with even bigger problems. Or jobs left half finished.

      You don’t end immigration by just banning it, hell that has been the right’s key point to gun control. And they’re right. Banning a starving family from working does not fix the hunger issue, nor did it address the over exploitation of immigrants. It just made it so a family has to come up with illegal ways of feeding themselves.

      Hell it didn’t even help business owners because they now have rotting fields, and they have to pay higher wages to attract labor.

      So the problem isn’t that the left isn’t praising it, it is that the capitalist right wing business owners also hate it. There is a middle ground and this ain’t it.

      • HunnyBadger@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Do you have better solutions in mind. My naive thoughts are that paying a living wage will also cost business owners more (hence why they’re not sounds that), but try that regulating illegal immigrant pay could risk deportation. The later point is speculation on my part, and seems oxymoronic …
        Seems like the best option is to make it easier to get legal immigrant area status for workers.