In interviews with the Washington Post, multiple farmers expressed their dismay with the loss of farm workers under Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies and his administration's waffling on subsidies.In a deep dive focusing on one farmer who voted for Trump, 36-year-old J.J. Ficke of Kirk, Colo...
Well yeah. Turns out people who aren’t in fear of being deported won’t work for a fraction of minimum wage paid under the table.
The real irony here is that a lot of immigrant workers were here on legitimate visas, in fact a huge portion of the “illegal” immigrants who the Trump administration has deported were here on legit visas that he wantonly revoked, and were therefore paying taxes on the shite wages they were being paid. Taxes that the U.S. is now no longer collecting. Anyone wanna take bets on the deficit increase under Trump?
I mean, it’s not so much the fear of deportation so much as the fact that lower wages go farther in Mexico. Most Mexicans who illegally immigrate do so simply because it makes economic sense. If the wages were so low that it didn’t make economic sense to them, then they would simply return to Mexico voluntarily.
Is it still Mexicans that come over or has it changed to people from even poorer countries like Venezuela or Honduras?
You kind of lose that economic advantage when you’re not living in Mexico anymore. Plus a lot of people that come here don’t have a life to go back to and likely sunk everything they had into getting here.
A lot of immigrants accept a low quality of life here so they can provide a better one back in their home country for their family.