It has always baffled me how the petite bourgeo seem to love cheap labor yet were openly racist to deport all the brown people without putting two and two together. Like, they couldnt connect that many immigrants were not competing against white people for jobs, but against other immigrants who didnt have much hope for something better given their circumstances.

  • Lussy [any, hy/hym]
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    7 days ago

    That’s one thing I could never reconcile, the party of petit bouge making deporting undocumented immigrants a rallying cry when they literally would not survive if they couldn’t underpay their undocumented workforce.

    Which is why I always thought it was bluster, just fuel for the racism engine. I honestly think it’s way more likely they go try to deport legal immigrants and minorities

    • Real_User [any]
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      7 days ago

      Worse conditions for immigrants means the implicit threat of violence against immigrant workers is more effective. They're not trying to deport their own workforce, they're trying to pay them even less