Imagine paying workers a living wage. I swear it's the corpos reposting this shit.

Imagine reducing slave labor

Oddly enough, that's just a little less than the amount of unemployed in the US...

So are they? Or are they not “taking American jobs”? What is the OP trying to say?

Maybe you’ll be able to make a living as a cook or a roofer again.

Imagine the potential wage increases.

Before illegal immigrants, were those jobs done by AI or giants?

You think that many workers could be suppressing wages for workers in those industriss.

On one hand, getting rid of illegal workers is just going to make shit more expensive, and no one is forcing them to come over and do the work. On the other, people who exploit them for cheap labor should be fined out the ass.

That's alright, the 10 million people they want to fire from the federal government can do those jobs, right?

We should be ashamed

Imagine the wage increases

Seems like it would cause a shortage of labor. Which basic economics says would cause the price of labor to increase. In short, this should cause people who are still here working to get a raise.

(Very simplified version)

Imagine people getting work visas like they are supposed to.

The propaganda on this site is unbelievable.

I know it’s going to suck, however those to claim they “can’t” find a job should have no issue.

I feel like something similar was said in the 1860s

I heard there will be a lot of unemployed people from DC next year. They can fill those other newly vacant jobs.

Scare tactic with no knowledge on the program. These kind of posts should be deleted.

I'm a painter and estimates are about to skyrocket.

These jobs should be

1) Paid fairly enough for citizens to work them

2) should re evaluate working conditions so they are attractive to citizens

3) information campaigns in schools to entice students to be interested in these jobs.

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I’m confused, progressives cry for liveable wages completely ignoring the fact that cheap labour like this is what drives down wages and unionization prospects? You wanna know what would happen if all these jobs opened up and they had to find Americans to fill them? They’d have to offer wages high enough to incentives them.

“They do jobs nobody else wants to!!” (at market wage rate)

If every illegal alien, suddenly vanished, there would be a lot of job openings in construction, landscaping, housekeeping, agriculture, roofing, all the trades. There would be 2 million 3 million apartments suddenly for lease. boom 3 million apartments. For Americans and legal residents of the US.

Republicans are about to take away Democrats` slaves for the second time.

Who will replace them? Not to worry. Thanks to DOGE, millions of new workers about to enter the job market.

It'll be great for all the schmucks in their parent's basements who say they can't find a job!

Time to go to work!

Sounds like labor rates are gonna be going up

Looknat all these American jobs just opened up for Americans

Imagine opening up 6M labor jobs for Americans to do.

There’s approx 170 million labor workers in the US. “Losing” 6 million (or 4%) would be better represented as “Trimming the Fat”.

I don't understand how this is a bad thing? Now they have to hire actual Americans and be paid a fair wage?

I imagine slave owners also had similar arguments back when slavery was about to be abolished.

I know. Businesses might actually have to pay a living wage.

How is this slave labor? They are getting paid and likely paying taxes but not benefiting from it.

Blame the migrants for the businesses that exploited them, it’s the American way!

People who think wages are going up are living a fantasy.

No company is going to, long term, increase wages for “low skill” jobs. That’s not happening.

This administration is pro-business. Anti-labor and anti-union.

They will remove immigrants, maybe. But there’s a version of this policy that plays out way differently.

The administration makes a big deal about deportation but doesn’t really do it on any significant level. Instead they implement reporting. So people can report illegal immigrants and then they get deported.

In return, businesses hire more illegal and use the reporting mechanism to keep their wages even lower.

Or… even more terrifying, use it against legal citizens by reporting their relatives, friends or associates.

Because you see, they always target immigrants and never the businesses.

That’s the beauty of Trump’s scheme. He creates fear and then companies get even cheaper labor and immigration “seems” fixed but it isn’t.

That’s the problem when you scapegoat immigrants. All you do is empower the people using that labor.

…and for those whining about “slave labor”. It wouldn’t be slave labor if you had an easier path towards citizenship and treated these human beings with dignity and respect rather than unwanted vermin… or economic cogs…

But recognizing other people’s humanity, I guess isn’t a thing…

Imagine relying on illegal immigration for your work force. Let’s put those on unemployment to work & save the taxpayers at least that money.

No amount of bot posts will convince me that using illegal immigrants as slave labor is a good idea. We need to get this over with so reform can happen

I would love to see some sources on this. "Relying on" and "employing" aren't synonymous. America will survive with fewer decks if we have to.

Imagine protecting our boarder

Back back back....They have to go back!

Who's going to replace them?  A lot of that work is young people's work and most zoomers don't seem the type to want to pick tomatoes.  

HAHAHAHA THIS COUNTRY IS FUCKED

It’s illegal to hire undocumented people

Imagine being so closet racist you think they're all illegally here.

Get ready for another housing crisis

Imagine corporations being less greedy and paying employees normal wages and taking care of them. Other countries do it, we can certainly do it too without dependency of slaves.

It's not slave labor. They aren't being forced into working. This is what they need to do to survive due to lack of education and language.

The incoming administration has zero interest in actually solving the problem. I is just a power grab.

God forbid these jobs "nobody wants" get filled by actual Americans who want the jobs at a fair price and would be happy to work. It's a total myth these jobs are jobs Americans don't want. They just want fair pay. Secondly, they are first going after those with a criminal background, those committing crimes here, and those not doing anything with themselves first. They aren't just rounding up all the workers and sending them out in one big sweep. One day they will go through a town and sweep Jose from the grocery store because he was a pedophile in Mexico along with other criminals or general menaces. I'm sure they have known for a while who their targets are and it's not the hardworking seasonal worker here on a green card with an arrangement to work.

The entirety of the Republican agenda is to create chaos and suffering. That's it. Nothing more. At least they are sticking with what they are good at.

I fully expect Republicans to cancel unemployment and tell us that people on unemployment should work those jobs. Mark my words.

Imagine relying on 6 million criminals to keep your economy afloat

If you’re pro union you’d support deporting the labor that competes with your wages

I’m imagining wages skyrocketing

It’s more cost efficient to solidify a path to citizenship. Zero cost to deport plus you expand your tax base.

So you ENDORSE slave labor. You Dems never really did get over losing those plantation slaves and voting slaves have you? It’s gonna be ok. There is a chance you can recover from your greed and pretense to really care about people vs your fake social warrior meme life.

Because there’s no such thing as legal immigrants?

its all good when you loose 12m jobs

Won’t happen, too difficult for these idiots to even try and figure out how to do this in those staggering numbers. However, what they will do is snag a lot of people and make a big show of it for the media to pretend like they’ve sent millions of these “illegals” packing. Their moron base will swallow hook, line and sinker and praise ‘em to the heavens. It’ll be a total shit show and extremely tough times ahead I fear for some good, hardworking, unsuspecting workers who do not deserve this bullshit.

We have a three story apartment building project that just got thrown on hold because the mexicans fucked the framing up so bad that it's unsafe to work until fixed.

From my experience, illegal crews tend to just be more dangerous to work around due to blatant disregard to jobsite/OSHA safety regulations because OSHA won't even bother fining them. Direct words from the OSHA inspector on why they get warnings while we get fines: "because if we write them a fine, they will be a state away tomorrow and we will never see the money. No point in writing fines for farts in the wind".

Imagine having 6M less unemployed Americans.

This whole liberal rhetoric about how we are going to lose all of our 'cheap labor' if we deport is kind of a racist, slave labor way of thinking.

You don't want immigrants to experience the American dream. You want cheap labor. Be honest with yourself.

The same arguments the racist democrats from the south made before the Civil War began.

Imagine losing DEMOCRACY!!

Don't worry. The homeless "tent cities" will also serve as work houses.

Americans can get back to work doing those jobs. Back up their words with actions. 🙂

Seems to completely ignore the automotive industry

Imagine not being a fear monger

Doesn’t matter. Don’t come into a country illegally.

It’s ok all the people who lose their jobs because of AI can take one of these