Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.
Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.
Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.
So slaves?
Yeah, not surprised at the Orange Blunder finding a way to bring back slavery. Oh his cronies will think up a different name for it, but soon these poor people will be segregated and counted as ⅗ of a person for purposes of population counting when drawing up political districts.
At this rate we are going to end up with Civil War 2 Electric Boogaloo before Christmas…
Edit: Correction of fractions, the historical amount was ⅗, not ⅕.
3/5 was a compromise… Orange will round down to the nearest whole number
1/5th? Worse than slaves.
Your right, I double checked the number and I misremembered, it should be ⅗ not ⅕.
Okay, so what the fuck do these numbers mean? I seriously dont know and I Am kinda afraid of what they might mean.
I want to berate you if you were raised in the US and don’t know.
That said if you are younger than me in some states it’s been deemed un important over the last 20 years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise
This is referred to as “The Great Compromise”
Slave holding states wanted slaves to count for the census and free states saw that as un fair. So slaves got to count as 3/5ths of a person and everybody won! /s
I Am not from the US, but still thanks for the info. This is like the prime example to why “centrism” is actually just defending the status quo.
They’re illegal they aren’t counted now. Why would they start counting them?
Um Ackshually, the Census is supposed to enumerate all persons living in the US, regardless of citizenship status, and that enumeration is supposed to be directly used by the Federal Government to apportion Congressional seats. So they are already counted, or at least they’re supposed to be.
The first Trump Administration was in charge of the last census, and tried to get a question added asking directly about citizenship status. It got squashed in the courts, because citizenship status is not supposed to matter, and the only effect that would have is to have non-citizens avoiding the census.
The whole point of the 3/5 compromise wasthat enslaved humans were considered to be worth 60% of a non-enslaved human for census purposes.