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Originally Posted by TheGoodTheBadTheUgly
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Your thread titles and link refer to a “ secret push”. One does not tell Hugh Hewitt, a popular conservative radio show host if it’s a secret push.
Sensationalism sells.
It has never been a secret that many Republicans have long supported immigration policies that would enable the legal employment of undocumented people at less than the prevailing / legal wage. Meat/ seafood/ poultry packing has long depended on undocumented workers. It keeps retail prices down, thus more affordable, while enabling higher profits for the employer.
A handful of states require e- Verify of all employees- laws designed with intentional loop holes which is the only way such laws could have passed. Texas, home of the second largest undocumented population, does not even pretend to require eVerify.
Florida has the third largest undocumented population, quite remarkable given it does not share a land border with another country. It also has a Governor pretending to be serious about e- Verify.
Florida employers can avoid e- Verify obligation when using the I- 9 form, a federal requirement for 35 years. It also excuses employers from verifying independent contractors.
Fascinating how so many view an illegal immigrant as a criminal while excusing those who economically engage them.
No wall is high enough and no patrol deep enough so long as US businesses and people sustain an insatiable demand for cheap labor and do so without consequences.
Some years back VOX did a documentary about Georgia’s then new eVerify Law from the perspective of the farmer who had long depended on undocumented laborer. One in particular was a watermelon farmer. First year, his crops failed due to an inability to high and retain enough legal workers. According to the farm owner, legal workers, typically convicted criminals on parole, were the only people who applied. Most did not return aster the first day. The crops rotted.
Then the farmer negotiated with the county and state to use prison labor, a win - win. Farmer got cheap labor and the county and state made $ off it. It did not work out well. The prisoners were slow and tired easily under the hot sun and quickly lost interest. The crops rotted.
Asked why the farmer did not simply offer a higher wage or use the unlimited agriculture visas to attract more workers, the response was telling. He competes with growers in his own neighboring states. If he paid more he could not compete with Florida and Arkansas etc. The wholesale market was not going to pay him more for his harvest because he used legal labor. The end consumer wants cheap watermelon and does not care who planted, tended or harvested it.
Same deal in meat/ seafood/poultry packing, construction, hospitality, remodeling, maintenance etc work.
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