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My world is so much better because of immigrants
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2025
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I would stop normalizing the theory that immigrants are here only to do badly paid jobs.
I've hear too many times "without immigrants who would work in insert miserable badly paid job?".
Immigrants are not here to do the most miserable jobs without getting properly paid for it.
I think progressive forces should stop with that discourse. I find it a little dehumanizing. If you don't want to do that shitty job I don't know why anyone would think that a person, only because they are an immigrant, want to do it for you.
But that's a response to "they took our jorbs!". It's a reframing for immigrants targeted at the reactionaries. But it is the reality - immigrants, particularly undocumented or agricultural visa recipients, are the bedrock of our society
It's terrible that they are in such unethical conditions. It's terrible that they have a carve out for child labor for seasonal farm workers. The entire power dynamic is akin to indentured servitude at best
But what we have to do is give them legal status and protections first.
They are not working the worst jobs because that's what we tell them they can be, they're working the worst jobs because they're extra exploitable
You make a good point.