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The way this debate ends up is odd to me. There's no question about human trafficking or why so many unaccompanied minors have turned up and how they got here.
by onetimeusename 3y ago
The way this debate ends up is odd to me. There's no question about human trafficking or why so many unaccompanied minors have turned up and how they got here. Nothing about whether this is safe and what happens if one of these kids injures themselves. There's no question about what the cost is on local resources to put them in school and whether they are even going to school and how they are doing. There's nothing about the cost to pay for their housing and medicine versus the theoretical economic benefit, etc. No one asks what their health and safety status is or whether they owe anything to cartels. Are they paying half their meager wage to an adult? What happens to the money? Let's not ask who is watching over these minors. Let's not ask where their parents are and whether the parents are exploiting them or immigration laws.
Instead the debate turns to them working. Who benefits from this? It's not even close to being the average person in one of these states.
- fzeroracer 3y agoIt's because ultimately they don't care. They've already put their feet down and they believe working is inherently good. So anything that makes more people work is good, even if it involves stuff that rollbacks worker protections. It's so transparent. The worst part is that these jobs in question suck so badly that the only way they can find workers is by lobbying to grab people who have less labor power. Rather than properly existing as part of a free market and paying people more.