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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not just have a seasonal migrant visa program - but one where the visa holders do not count for purposes of electoral college votes, Congressional seats, and federal funds?  Migrants who were here illegally and deported go to the back of the line for a green card. Any migrant who is convicted of a felony is barred from the US forever. [/quote]

Also, migrants must buy seasonal health insurance and cannot receive any public assistance. No birthright citizenship for any kids born in the US while on a migrant visa.

You come, you work, and you leave. Everyone wins. [/quote]

Heaven forbid we hire American workers.[/quote]

These seasonal cheap labor jobs have only ever been done by migrants, poor recent immigrants, or oppressed minorities. They are shitty jobs with low pay and bad working conditions that Americans with any other option would never do. [/quote]

Then THAT is the issue we should be trying to solve. NOT making it allowable to import foreign workers to exploit. Maybe they shouldn't be shitty jobs with shitty pay that no American is willing to do. If we were truly about free markets, those jobs should go undone until the employers get their act together and start paying real wages. Allowing them to import people we all allow them to underpay is not a solution. [/quote]

Then we need to start paying what it actually costs to produce food, and the government needs to stop subsidizing the wrong foods, like corn, soy and, indirectly, sugar.[/quote]

I don't disagree with you. It's a complex and layered issue. Much more complex and layered than just importing slaves. So America does what America does, and instead of untangling a complex issue, we just import slaves and call them criminals. [/quote]

This is what kills me about this whole thing. Every single person in America has directly or indirectly participated in the system that holds up the migrant worker situation. It’s America’s worst kept secret. There is zero social pressure for businesses to not hire undocumented immigrants, if anything it’s the other way around to keep prices low. The farmers, the construction companies, the Nannys, the house keepers, the nail salon workers. Everyone knows and nobody bats an eye at it in their everyday lives. Then they get called criminals for participating in a system that Americans, especially the wealthy and business class, are happy to partake in. [/quote]

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