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patphil

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2. FBA's are Foundational Black Americans
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 12:19 PM
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I see his point, but it's really a matter of money. Farm laborers never get paid enough to make a living by US standards. That's why so many undocumented immigrants do that work. They're willing to be the underpaid, low end workers because it's still better than where they came from.
There isn't a substitute for them in the American workforce. Throwing them out is foolish, stupid, and a tragedy for the American Farmers. One that we, the consumers, will pay for in the way of higher food prices and food scarcity.
Besides, the unemployment rate is only about 4.2%. There aren't enough unemployed workers to fill those jobs anyhow.
Maybe that's why the Republicans want to force people on Medicaid to work, and why many Republican states are lowering the minimum age for kids to do work. It almost seems that this is all part of a plan to compensate for the loss of millions of undocumented workers. I don't see that as a viable solution.
At some point they'll probably start letting some of the people they kicked out come back under special work visas that allow them to stay if they have a job, and only as long as they have that job.

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