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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI Trump also wants foreign workers. He acknowledged that many farmers and hotels have been hurt by the raids.

Why do you think only rich people should be able to afford strawberries at $15 per?[/quote]

Chicken farms

Less than one week after ICE raided 7 food processing facilities in Mississippi apprehending nearly 700 illegal workers, American citizens are rushing to freshly-available jobs.

Koch Foods is headquartered in Chicago but maintains a chicken processing facility in Mississippi that employed 243 of the 680 undocumented Latino workers arrested in the raids last Thursday. Koch has since collaborated with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES), holding a job fair to recruit new, legal, workers, according to the Associated Press.

The fair raked in 200 applications before noon, according to local media. The company says it will require applicants to present two forms of identification before being hired, according to CNN. MDES will also vet all Mississippi workers for legality using the state’s E-Verify system, according to USA Today.

I would not do that work for peanuts with no benefits, like most US workers. maybe they should increase the wages and add health care? crazy idea to people like you.
Econ 101 will give you background on the impact of Supply and Demand on prices.

if Supply goes up, the cost will come down.

if Supply goes down, the cost goes up.

if we were to limit the overwhelming immigration of low wage workers, the wages for low wage workers would increase.

I think that is a good thing. 
people like you think that is a bad thing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/13/citizens-line-up-mississippi-jobs-fear-ice-raids-impact-immigrants/
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I don’t disagree, but it’s far more complicated than you describe.

Beyond chicken, there’s the seafood industry. Let’s keep it local since we have both the chicken and seafood (crab picking) industries in MD/DE.

I worked on litigation a million years ago related to unfair treatment of imported workers for both industries. Oy vey did we go down a rabbit hole! I was (still am) a bleeding heart liberal surrounded by similar public interest lawyers and nonprofit policy wonks and grassroots organizers for worker rights and immigrant rights. We also had access to Big Law (a mixed bag in terms of their political views). Long story short: before globalization and more frequent immigration, black people held these jobs in MD/DE. Many of them walked away from these jobs seeking better opportunities elsewhere, meaning they left the area (hint: more and better jobs are in urban areas; not a lot happening on the eastern shore). There was a population decrease (we’ve all seen the ghost towns on the eastern shore) and those who remained didn’t want these awful jobs. There was a need to import workers, but there’s never a good reason to treat these people like slaves. (That’s where the lawsuits came in.)

But the policy analysts (even those on our side, the left) did acknowledge that prices would go up based on the safeguards and salaries envisioned.

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