No, hiring refugees is good in general. Hiring them because you can pay them less due to a dire situation is pretty disgusting (although not uncommon)
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Replying to @weeseandbeyond @aceckhouse
Can you provide any particular reason why hiring refugees is better than hiring from the existing unemployed labor force?
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Any particular reason why "it's good in general?"
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Replying to @380kmh @aceckhouse
Because people fleeing oppression or disaster should be able to work and eat as well?
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Replying to @weeseandbeyond @aceckhouse
and people who already live here shouldn't have priority for working because...?
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Replying to @380kmh @aceckhouse
Because it’s not a zero sum game economically? And putting people against each other in that way is ridiculously reactionary and nativist
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Replying to @weeseandbeyond @aceckhouse
If the unemployed are kept unemployed because cheaper labor is brought in from afar, then....
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The article specifically says that high turnover is due to drastic reductions in wages and benefits, then hails Mr Wiley for recruiting from abroad to try and stabilize these poor conditions at the expense of the dissatisfied local labor
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Replying to @380kmh @aceckhouse
Extrapolating from one article what resettlement policy and it’s effects on labor seems to be a bit much? The larger body of work seems to suggest that this isn’t the case. But more so letting people die in other places as “not our problem” is a pretty gross way to go about life
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Replying to @weeseandbeyond @aceckhouse
Letting people die in other places (within the country) as "not our problem" is exactly what you do when you let dismal labor conditions continue by allowing employers to pull from the world's most desperate rather than pay uppic.twitter.com/CXa4yyHY2F
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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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