Um, your link describes how farms in Georgia had trouble finding people to work on them after a crackdown on illegal immigration.
That sounds to me like there were more jobs available for citizens and legal migrants.
It’s ludicrous to pretend that millions of illegal immigrants don’t put downward pressure on wages and job availability. A small shortage of workers means a decent paying job for anyone willing to work.
I worked on farms and ranches a few times during summer breaks in school, and I know people who worked on them a bunch while they were in high school, as far back as the 70’s and 80’s.
Those jobs are now almost all done by immigrants, many of whom are illegal, who work twice as many hours per week and three times as hard for a little less money, after inflation. These labor jobs are not available to the class of inexperienced Americans with nothing but their labor that they used to be available to.
No, but teaching students to ignore distractions and head games and to perform does. So does teaching them not to be thin skinned cry-babies triggered into explosions of impotent rage by political slogans. Those habits are going to end up being very detrimental to the well being of the students as they grow older and get out into the real world and try to make a living, interact with society, start a business, or have a family. Their mommy and daddy aren’t always going to be there to protect them when people say mean things, and neither is that drama queen coach of theirs.
The rather sensible response by immigration activists is “legalize them and solve the problem”. But that only works if this time, honest to goodness, scouts’ honor, you enforce the law going forward. Otherwise, the legal immigrants just leave the farms for better jobs or get fired, and then replaced by illegals again who can be made to work for less.
Nothing about our immigration system works if it’s not enforced adequately. No one is arguing that we can or should deport 100% of illegal border crossers or fire 100% of illegal laborers. But we can create an environment where every company has an incentive to hire legal labor despite the higher cost, because the fines and potential criminal action are too awful and too likely to consider, plus the disruption to your work when the INS comes a-raiding and ships off all your workers.
They weren’t even using racial slurs, they were just chanting a political slogan for Christ’s sake. One comment I saw claimed that it was in response to chants of “Viva Mexico” from the other side. “USA USA” is also a chant heard at Trump rallies. Is it OK if they respond with that, or would that level of patriotism trigger the poor sheltered high school students, who have probably never said or even heard a single bad word or phrase, or looked up much worse things on the internet on their own, out of curiosity, or anything like that?
Stamping out racism is like stamping out assault, arson, terrorism, mugging, murder, rape, and drug dealers. With the difference being that you can’t outlaw racism, which means you are even less likely to stamp it out.
Plus if you want to stamp out racism you might want to start by reducing the balkanization of society rather than increasing it. If you listen to many liberals, the only racism problem worth worrying about is whites hating non-whites. But there’s plenty of hate and discrimination going around between minorities, and our changing demographics mean that problem will only get worse. It’s time to move beyond the “racism is a white problem” paradigm and recognize that with increasing diversity comes increasing ways for people to hate each other.
I guess those Latinos should just learn to suck it up, huh?
If you listen to many conservatives, the only racism problem liberals worry about is whites hating non-whites, much in the same way people like Bill O’Reilly complain that Obama and Al Sharpton aren’t doing anything about black-on-black violence, or endless right-wing sources complain Muslims never condemn Muslim terrorism. Your selective attention is not indicative of reality.
Then how come no one is talking about “eradicating” or “stamping out” minority on minority violence? We only use such eliminationist rhetoric to describe racism against minorities by whites.
Oh I see…we’ve gone from liberals thinking “the only racism problem worth worrying about is whites hating non-whites” and the need to “recognize that with increasing diversity comes increasing ways for people to hate each other” to using “eliminationist rhetoric”. Another spectacular goalpost move by adaher.
There is plenty of discussion by liberals - of various colors - about black-on-black violence and how to address it. I’m sorry if they’re not using the exact phrasing that you specifically require in order to check whatever box you want, but both the conversations and the actual work is happening whether you see it or not.
But I Googled “eradicating black-on-black crime” just to see what came up. Unsurprisingly a HuffPo article(column? blog?) cropped up which addresses your point:
My understanding, which could be wrong, is that Colorado’s delegates are, technically, unbound. Nevertheless, they were candidates that were selected by the Cruz campaign as his supporters, and campaigned for at the district and state conventions as his supporters, and they will vote for him at the national convention.
If they do, it is only in the few limited job categories where you’ll find immigrants working – farm labor, restaurant kitchens, fast-food joints, certain jobs which are usually MW or less anyway. Or home improvement or landscaping day-labor, recruited from the Home Depot parking lot. And those sectors really are not a significant part of the problem. Offshoring and automation, not immigration, are what have limited jobs and depressed wages in the manufacturing sector that used to provide millions of working-class Americans with middle-class incomes and security. The only relatively expanding sector since the '80s has been the kind of service jobs that involve face-to-face customer interaction, such as retail sales or waiting tables – and immigrants from non-English-speaking countries can’t compete for those jobs on equal terms, they definitely require the ability to speak English like a native.
