Maybe when unemployment is zero
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I have no doubt that you are concerned with the well-being of refugees, and I trust that you want the best for unemployed American citizens too--just like NIMBYs are generally concerned for the environment--but it's frustrating that you can't admit their needs are at odds here
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Instead of having domestic labor stuck relying on welfare to get by, while working conditions are kept low by refugee labor, why not grant welfare to refugees and employ the domestic labor in better conditions? Seems like a better approach to me, at least
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Why do you think that supporting refugees means that I don’t also think labor conditions should be better? As someone from a union family that they shouldn’t join current labor organizations or fight for better benefits? Yes management are exploitative assholes

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and yet here you are endorsing their decisions--does that make you an exploitative asshole by proxy?
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Being from a union family doesn't really amount to much if your activism undercuts the objectives of organized labor elsewhere, does it? It's not a hereditary title after all
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Lol well my activism is directly correlated with that in general
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I just don’t think that the difference as a nation is refugees in this case. Companies are doing this kind of thing all over the country in places with no significant refugee population as well.
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I'll grant that to an extent--but reliance on foreign non-refugee labor dwarfs reliance on foreign refugee labor, and is exactly as bad for domestic labor
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