The problem with the immigration issue in general is that we've framed it as 'one side of the issue is racist xenophobes who want to keep out brown people and the other side is "the good ones" who aren't racist xenophobes"
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But the moral, social, & economic problems of immigration that need to be dealt with are much deeper and complicated than that. The problem of immigrant children in foster homes is older than Trump.
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You have this bureaucratic problem of 'which agency is responsible for tracking these kids - ORR or ICE -and they disappear. Occasionally, you find these kids working in meat packing plants & chicken farms.https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/heres-how-the-government-managed-to-lose-track-of-1500-migrant-children/ …
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I don't think it's a stretch to think that if they're being exploited for labor, that children are also being trafficked. And the abhorrent idea that the children's labor is being exploited is a reminder that adult immigrants are being exploited for labor.
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Before Trump's xenophobic approach to immigration, a popular liberal counter-argument to the conservative's xenophobic position was "immigrants are hard working people who contribute to our economy. If we didn't have immigrant farm labor, the price of food would skyrocket."
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This was a epitomized by a segment that Stephen Colbert where he worked on a farm along side immigrant farm workers to show people how hard they work. http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.testimony/index.html …
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Because so many immigrants are undocumented, they aren't protected by labor law. Not only do they not make a minimum wage (farm workers are exempt even under labor law), they aren't paid an hourly wage at all - it's piece work, meaning you get paid by the bushel.
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There are serious moral issues about immigration that aren't being addressed b/c of the way we've framed the issue, and even "the good guys" are not the good guys on this issue.
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Immigration can't be a debate question b/c there are only two sides that we recognize: pro-immigration/anti-immigration. The real moral questions are side-stepped by framing it as that.
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The next Dem president will reverse Trump's immigration policies, but they're probably not going to fix the real problems of immigration because even liberals don't want increase in food prices or an end to all the other economic benefits we enjoy from exploiting their labor.
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So, we'll dismantle the ICE camps, people will pat themselves on the back, then we'll go back to this system in which a lot of those kids get put to work in fields, meat packing plants, factories, or worse, which is what we had before Trump & everyone was fine with it.
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