(January 28, 2019 at 2:14 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(January 28, 2019 at 1:46 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: It's pretty much the same hypocrisy the obscenely rich (at least the ones who claim to be against illegal immigration) have always held:
Honestly, it would probably be more surprising if a billionaire/multi-millionaire who made a big show about being anti-immigration didn't have illegals working for him. After all, the temptation of exploiting people who've come to a nation where they're required to be paid more for an hour's work than half of them have to live on in a day and have no legal recourse is just too big to resist.
I keep wondering where this weird idea that the ultra wealthy are opposed to immigration came from. It's a popular misconception. The ultra wealthy have never had a problem with immigrants increasing the size of the cheap labor pool. Rich politicians have always had to pay lip service to organized labor's concerns about rampant immigration, so they have sometimes worked anti-immigrant rhetoric into their election campaigns if they were running in areas where organized labor was strong. George W the patrician class politician was probably a lot more friendly to immigrants than Obama was. Trump isn't really a hypocrite because he almost certainly isn't sincere about his anti-immigrant stance. He just bashes immigrants because it plays well with his base. He would hire illegals to be white house landscapers and housekeepers in a New York second if he could get away with it.
Um no, the greedy really do not care if you are born in a country or from another country, if greed is their motivation, they will always take cheap labor and attempt to drive down wages, regardless of papers or being born here.
That is not to say there are those who are empathetic to migration that do hire migrants regardless of papers, there are.
Trump is the type who hires migrants for the cheap labor. There are other rich people who hire people without papers too, but are not fucking bigots and understand that it is just about surviving.
