• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      You could simply document the immigrants and incorporate them into large labor coalitions auctioning their work at market rates.

      Instead, we have a system of paying workers under-the-table at below market rates, while using their illegal status as leverage to prevent them from negotiating for better pay.

      So you need a legal system for migration before you can get higher wages and worker protections. Otherwise, you’ll always have a reserve army of scabs in the form of undocumented residents.

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      Don’t migrants tend to get exploited and end up doing the crap jobs that nobody else is willing to do but need to be done anyway?

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      I just find humor in the hypocrisy of Republicans. Especially when it inevitably backfires on them.