"It's Just Not Right": The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment

"It's Just Not Right": The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment

Somethings about america never cease to amaze me. Like how an obviously bad thing coming to an end is portrayed as a disaster instead of a blessing. They're very good at that.

Most are paid as piecework—75 cents a bucket of potatoes, say, or a couple bucks per thousand chickens—and most of that piecework is mercilessly physical. Poultry catchers are expected to gather some 2,000 birds in an hour, while for pickers it's a matter of packing, say, 300 25-pound crates between sunrise and sunset. For the farmer, it's a necessity to keep skilled, reliable workers close at hand when profits are made or lost in the brief window of the harvest. This pressure bears down on the men and women willing to stoop and kneel and pick and haul and bleed in order to perform grueling tasks with awesome efficiency—and then, for many, to move on to where the seasons lead them next. And while anti-immigration arguments hang on the idea that if illegal workers were barred from these jobs Americans would eagerly fill them, Smith and other farmers say this doesn't square with reality. Cullman County is 93 percent white. Of the locals Smith has hired to replace the workers who fled, most lasted only a couple of hours he says, before they quit.

The jobs listed above are horrible jobs. For which the immigrants who do them get paid far, far less than anything resembling a minimum wage, assuming the USA actually has such a thing.

so first off , you're not paying a fair wage to these people.

Second off , you can't find replacements who arn't immigrants that can be abused into working for almost nothing.

and third off , you will now claim it is a disaster to your industry that you can't find people to work for literal , classical slave wages. Therefore bad things will happen.

You should never have been allowed to have a business that pays fifty cents a day (or whatever it is) to compete with everyone else in the first place. It's about time it was shut down. Consequences ? what consequences ? People can pay a real amount for their peanuts or do without , it's just that simple.