As Republican Texas leaders show support for Trump’s mass deportation plans, undocumented people — some who have lived in America for decades — are weighing their options amid mounting fears.

  • @IphtashuFitz
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    185 hours ago

    You going to volunteer to work in farm fields for poverty wages once all the migrant labor has been rounded up and deported?

    I didn’t think so.

    • @[email protected]
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      -234 hours ago

      Man, it never gets old seeing lefties actually advocating for an abusable workforce for substandard wages. What is this, Jim Crow?

      Americans will work shitty jobs for good wages. Right now, migrants work for less because they don’t have a choice. Remove the migrants, start going after companies that hire them, wages will go up.

      • @eskimofry
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        In your dreams. You think Trump will fuck with rural farmers and rich industrialists who own factories that hire these undocumented immigrants? Or do you think somehow the leeches will relent and give fair wages to Americans to work the fields? What do you think would REALLY happen?

        • @[email protected]
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          -31 hour ago

          I expect it to be imperfect, but for the majority of the illegal labor force to be deported. Then either the companies will either be understaffed or start hiring legal workers.

          Prices will most likely rise, but so will wages for those types of jobs. And frankly, I’d rather a little higher prices than for unethical lower prices

      • Talaraine
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        134 hours ago

        Me over here aging before they ever touch a company for hiring them.