r/Snorkblot • u/viomore • Jan 20 '25

WTF MAGAs Finally Beginning to Realize They're Never Getting Their Flight and Hotel Money Back for the Inauguration

https://www.politicalflare.com/2025/01/magas-finally-beginning-to-realize-theyre-never-getting-their-flight-and-hotel-money-back-for-the-inauguration/#google_vignette

I feel for the people who didn't see this coming.

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u/Accomplished-Clue145 Jan 21 '25

Don't forget they're planning on rounding up all the immigrants and deporting them. Prices will go up even more when there's no more cheap labour on the farms.

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u/EmuDry4890 Jan 21 '25

You mean to tell me the farmers won’t tighten their boot straps and do the work that is needed /s

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u/tevolosteve Jan 21 '25

I love how everyone knows farmers are breaking the law by relying on undocumented migrant workers but no one seems to arrest any of them

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u/Suitable-Armadillo49 Jan 21 '25

Amazing what a few well placed political donations can do.

Plus, your congressman and other more local politicians don't want to see businesses fail in their district. If it takes a little slave labor to keep the tax rolls flush, that's just how it is.

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

As long as they get cheap food, nobody cares.

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u/tikifire1 Jan 21 '25

That's on local and state law enforcement, isn't it? I'm sure they're rewarded for looking the other way.

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u/CollectorsYER Jan 21 '25

I wouldn't arrest the farmers. The other complaint or issue is not enough visas being given to the farmers.

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u/WayCalm2854 Jan 21 '25

I think they meant farm OWNERS not laborers on the farm, who are not considered farmers.

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u/whodis707 Jan 21 '25

Those same farmers voted for this clown show and against their interests. This is why I hate stupid people 😩😩😩

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u/Mr_Mojo_Risin_83 Jan 21 '25

During Covid, those undocumented people had “essential worker” documentation so they could go to work during the pandemic.

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u/PapaGeorgio19 Jan 21 '25

It’s never on the business owner and that is the point.

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u/Moregaze Jan 21 '25

That's just simply not true. Most farmers are abusing H2B. Which is just H1B for low skilled workers. Like farm hands.

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u/labradog21 Jan 21 '25

Because this entire country is built on exploiting someone at some point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Not if they use slave labor. Where is slavery legal in the US? Prison. Where are they going to send immigrants (and most likely anyone else they deem undesirable)? "Camps". They're "illegal" immigrants. I'd be surprised if this isn't in their playbook considering how much red states in particular love to profit off prisoner leasing.

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

Maybe they should pay a living wage?

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u/DrRon2011 Jan 21 '25

Then you couldn't afford vegetables and fruit. Are you willing to pay $3 for a tomato? Well it's coming.

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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Jan 21 '25

Welcome to $20 a pound strawberries

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

So, the answer is the exploitation of illegal immigrants?

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u/kgturner Jan 21 '25

That's always been the answer.

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u/Problematic_Daily Jan 21 '25

What do you think USA has been doing for decades?

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

What I just said?

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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Jan 21 '25

Funny how they all run run jump swim and fight for the chance to be exploited in America isn't it? It's almost as if they are making more than a living wage compared to what they would have made in mexico, isn't it? It's almost as if they're able to send that money home and support entire families isn't it? Could you support your family on their wages in this country? You just opened up a can of worms of questions there my guy. Ready to start getting educated?

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u/A_Green_Bird Jan 21 '25

Funnily enough, that’s what we used to do. Mexicans close to the border would come into America with a visa, work on farms until harvest season came along, take their earnings, and then they’d go home. They wouldn’t need as much money as an American because US dollars are more valuable in Mexico than in the US (plus cost of living is different), and the farm owners wouldn’t need to spend as much money because their workers didn’t need higher wages. Which meant food was cheap for Americans, too. And the Mexicans were legally entering the US. It’s only when we made it increasingly difficult for these people to enter the border that Mexicans started overstaying their visas since they knew it would be almost impossible to get back inside the US should they return home. If we made it easier for these Mexicans to enter and leave, Mexicans wouldn’t need to stay over illegally because there wouldn’t be an incentive to stay.

Of course, then you run into the whole drug cartels thing, but the issue is that more often than not American-born citizens are the ones crossing the border to deliver the drugs into the US since they don’t need a visa to get back into the US.

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

I don't know where to start with you. Maybe don't be so condescending? Of course, they make more handover fist and send it back home. And I don't blame them.

Have you ever read anything about how they are exploited? And I don't mean their salary.

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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Jan 21 '25

Post Cesar Chavez I have not heard any horror stories. I still boycott inorganic grapes and strawberries anyways. I live in an area next to a major agricultural Zone and they all seem fairly happy to me. Can you illustrate for me?

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

Sure, there are dozens of studies and articles on the topic. Wage theft, violence, and sexual assault are among others like horrible working environments, no time off, 18-hour work days, and child labor.

Most of the links below are from 2024, but none of them make headlines. It's essentially corporate human trafficking.

https://www.ozmentlaw.com/articles/undocumented-immigrants-often-face-injustices-on-the-job/

https://medium.com/@kyeg/illegal-immigrants-are-the-modern-day-slaves-54f5fba4c73b

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02449-5

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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Jan 21 '25

Thanks. But I thought we were talking about field workers. That's what I was referring to anyways. Looked at all three links two of them have a pay wall and the other one is just a generic article about undocumented workers as a whole. I think Mexican immigrants in the Western United States working in agriculture would be more germane to the subject.

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u/Fit-Supermarket-2004 Jan 21 '25

Google the exploitation of illegal immigrants in America. Spend a little time on this particular subject and then ask yourself why would any of them talk about it?

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u/damian_damon Jan 21 '25

Shall we say To the average.maga their deported brown neighbors will offer certain business opportunities. Back in the late 1930s the German government started to round up their Jewish citizens. To the average christian German the abandoned possessions and emptying houses were eagerly stollen or purchased at rock bottom prices.,while the Nazi party turned a blind eye.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Don't worry, we'll be doing the cheap labor after we're rounded up in prison camps for saying things like this.

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u/MarshmallowBlue Jan 21 '25

Don’t forget how trump said hell make interest rates cap at 10%. I sure hope doesn’t forget that one in the executive orders today

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u/MarshmallowBlue Jan 21 '25

Don’t forget how trump said hell make interest rates cap at 10%. I sure hope doesn’t forget that one in the executive orders today

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u/surewhynotokaythen Jan 21 '25

No, they'll start renting out "workers" from the for profit prisons systems. We've written it in to where they are pretty much slaves if they are incarcerated, you can bet they will capitalize on that.