Once upon a time conservatives supported mass immigration, because they wanted cheap labor. Democrats were actually more hawkish on immigration than Republicans in my childhood. The issue was largely a fight over cheap labor vs. good wages. That was largely before Donald Trump, in fact the change started late in George W. Bush’s term. The Republicans adopted hardline views on immigration, and even want to stop legal immigration now in some circles. Of course the United States does need some legal immigration to deal with labor needs, so Trump’s hardline immigration positions are causing serious problems in some labor markets. One of them is agriculture, where the work is frankly hard for the pay and most Americans won’t do it. Since they now lack immigrants and Americans don’t want to do it, we’re getting the worst of every world now.
So now the plan is to quietly let some migrants back into the country to work, but to pay them way less and basically give them less freedom while here. Great.
Nothing like returning to the policies of the Jim Crow South.
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