One answer to these types of messages from the Left:
Yes, illegal labor reduces prices...but slave labor would reduce them more. Perhaps we should allow economic migrants, if they're desperate enough, to sell themselves into slavery for 5-10 years, to get that green card and access to our welfare system.
Yup, they are in that group as well. Funny thing is, the blacks that moved up and moved on are doing quite well. It's the ones belly aching about it that stay put in poverty
Tried that argument. It’s correct, but it doesn’t work.
By “doesn’t work”, not only does it not work on liberals/leftists but it doesn’t work on conservatives buying slave labor products to save a few copper-plated zinc discs.
One answer to these types of messages from the Left:
Yes, illegal labor reduces prices...but slave labor would reduce them more. Perhaps we should allow economic migrants, if they're desperate enough, to sell themselves into slavery for 5-10 years, to get that green card and access to our welfare system.
Indentured servitude. I have ancestors who did that to come to America legally.
Yup, but the Irish don't cry about it, we just moved up and on
Same with the Germans.
Yup, they are in that group as well. Funny thing is, the blacks that moved up and moved on are doing quite well. It's the ones belly aching about it that stay put in poverty
Tried that argument. It’s correct, but it doesn’t work.
By “doesn’t work”, not only does it not work on liberals/leftists but it doesn’t work on conservatives buying slave labor products to save a few copper-plated zinc discs.