DeSantis signed legislation mandating the use of E-verify systems for employers with 25 or more employers and now latino truckers (who are most likely illegal aliens who are illegally employed in the US) are protesting it and encouraging other truck drivers to protest as well. The amount of people threatened by this mandate should be a signal for how broken and corrupt our economy and country are, but rather it is being pushed as a leftist humanitarian crisis that can be summarized as, "those poor migrants won't be able to be exploited for the cheap labor they provide!"
When I used to live in California, there was a bakery whose employees were largely illegal aliens, and after those illegal aliens were deported, rather than paying better wages to attract new employees, the bakery just decided to close its doors for good. The US has become a country that depends so much on illegal aliens that businesses just can't afford (whether they genuinely can't afford to or they are so awful at managing money that exploiting cheap labor is the only means of keeping their business afloat) to hire actual American citizens.
If any actual attempts at curbing illegal immigration are made, the left makes the same argument every time, "how else will you keep prices cheap," or "who else is going to work these jobs?" If a labor shortage occurs because nobody is willing to work for the pathetic wages offered, then the left takes delight in how "dependent" companies are on exploiting the labor of illegal aliens and tries to argue that it is "good" that illegal aliens are here being exploited. All these people complaining about wanting higher minimum wages and then turning around and arguing that "if we hire actual Americans, then the prices of everything will increase!" What the fuck is this Machiavellian bullshit?
Years ago, I thought they were arguing these points because they thought that they were appealing to the right, but it's pretty clear that they genuinely think worker exploitation is a good thing.
I think it's time for the: "your wages are barely above slave labor and you know it" campaign.
Might have to have an easier and quicker to say slogan, but you get the idea.
If the only way you can stay competitive is by paying someone so far under their worth that you have to rely on illegal workers because no one else can survive on it, then you're not a business. You're the reason the economy is the way it is, and you're profiting from it.
I'm not sure why you expect leftists to have any standards at all, besides wanting power and hating white people.
In that same vein, the democrats are still the party of slavery, nothing has changed.
Honestly, I don't expect leftists to have standards. It's just makes me angry that they can do so with such ease and very little push-back. I know it is speaking to the choir here, but the average normie seems unable or unwilling to look at the bigger picture.
Please understand that the left controls ALL of the major institutions; academia, the media and big businesses.
They can push all of their desired narratives with ease and most normies are just gullible retards who follow these narratives.
I understand and fully sympathize with your anger over this situation but for the right to win, we unfortunately are forced to play things much smarter than the left would ever have to. In terms of a video game analogy, the left is playing on very easy difficulty and we are playing on the hardest difficulty setting possible.
We cannot replicate certain tactics the left abuses because we the right don't control any major institution.
For example, we could never run a retard like Fetterman and win a swing state because we don't have every major institution shilling for us. We saw how our Senate candidate Herschel Walker got crushed in GA and he wasn't even fully retarded compared to Fetterman.
We have no choice but to run smart and ruthless conservatives who are excellent at eloquently pushing back against the leftist narratives if we even want a tiny shot at winning.
I think it might be more apt to say that we're in chip range at full screen and the left is zoning us out.
A while ago I realized "fuck the economy" is the correct attitude.
but line must go up!
When I worked at immigration, you'd be surprised at how many people would cuss me out because I told them they were here illegally and couldn't get any status, or the ones who overstayed their visa. Also women would call and get angry that their husband was deported and we would have to say "your husband was here illegally" and then she would inevitably complain that she has kids (never dawns on them that the guy knew he was here illegally and putting his family in that situation). I do remember a story about a meat packing plant that had a raid and the next day there were lines around the corner of citizens/legal residents wanting to apply.
But as you said, any attempt to curb illegal immigration is attacked with viciousness, and it is always about compassion but these leftists aren't willing to take in anyone into their own homes.
... at the price the employer is offering. There is a price point for every possible human activity, even suicide. Don't believe me? Look at the Hamas bounties.
At the right price, a man will blow himself up to take out a KFC in Tel Aviv. You don't think a man would pick strawberries if you offered him the right amount of compensation?
There has to be a way to flip this on them using their own framework against them. Americans won't do some job because it pays nothing and is functionally slave labor. These people also whine about minimum wages being too low. If illegal slave labor is the only way to get these jobs done then the big spooky evil big business/The Man needs to be taken down a peg and forced to pay proper wages. It plays on their need for signaling compassion and their need for hostility towards a hated entity.
I don't know how to market it, but I am absolutely convinced that this can be used as an attack vector.
The long-winded explanation isn't sexy, but understanding what's going on is important:
All voluntary labor is motivated by profit. Profits can by material or psychic (teachers, journalism, charity work, and entry-level game developers are compensated in part in psychic profit, thus the low salaries), but they must be present.
Industries reliant on illegal labor don't offer psychic profit. Nobody grows up wanting to work in a meat-packing plant, or spending all day picking strawberries and artichokes. The wages on offer are too low to attract Americans, so they're offering something other than wages in compensation, but it is material.
They're unofficially offering citizenship as part of the benefits package.
The companies are offering something that isn't theirs to offer. They're stealing it, and using it as a second currency that's free to them. You and I are looking for health insurance or a company car; illegal aliens are looking for a foot in the door for amnesty and a chance to have children on American soil.
Even leftists should object to corporations stealing something that isn't theirs and offering it instead of paying people what their labor is worth. Even a communist should object to offering a benefits package that amounts to stealing from the collective.
They don't, though, and that's because the companies are also paying activists in psychic profit. Marxists get to feel good about themselves without putting in any effort by "supporting" below-minimum-wage compensation.
"YOU DONT UNDERSTAHND! I CAHM HERE FOR A BEETER LIFE~! EEESN'T THAT THEe AMERICAN DREEEEAM?!"
Only for White people.
Many conservatives will make this same argument in favor of legal immigration.
The people who fall back on boilerplate speeches about picking fruit and cleaning toilets aren't actually making a point or saying anything meaningful, they're just saying friend words at their enemy until their enemy either gives up or says a naughty word they can use as an excuse for punishment. You have to internalize that these people are warped fucking freaks who want you dead and you can't ever communicate with them in any meaningful way.
Its because this is one of those issues where its built entirely on contrarianism. Unlike most of the Left/Right battlegrounds, wherein the Right is pretending to oppose the Left's blatant horrors, the immigration one is entirely the Right attempting to do something and the Left deciding they love it just to be on the opposite side.
They never have a single real argument for not combating illegal immigration, even the one's they try get instantly broken by someone who isn't even immersed in the politics of it. They are just making up reasons to be against it because if the Right is for it, it must be evil.
Nah replacement migration and destroying White homelands is an intentional strategy. It's not "The Right" doing anything there. You don't magically get millions of assholes crossing into your country without massive effort from the Left's human trafficking / slavery regime.
I'm sure at the top its an intentional strategy.
I'm talking for the common idiot "outraged" by any attempt to curb it, who don't need any prompting from the elite to reflexively "resist."
This is what happens when you make taxation and regulatory burden extremely costly, and refuse to allow lower wage employment.
You should see the apartment complexes with only one ethnicity in it. There are restaurants and services offered on the first floor, and everyone lives above it or behind the stores. They are illegal and the owner is from their ethnicity so he uses their status to get them to do slave work. It's been going on for ages. I mean, you read stories about it in immigrant groups arriving in the Americas before the USA even existed.
Some of these ethnic apartment complexes are insane. I remember one in northeastern phoenix valley in a place called the Square. The people living in this comex were all swedish and the biggest dicks I ever met in my life. I had some stuff go missing and found it at the swedes apartment. When I asked why they stole it, they through it back in my face that I wasn't swedish and therefore not good enough. Then they blamed me for being robbed. I guess they pissed someone off because that complex is now Somalis. To this day when a swede I know gets cocky, I remember that.
--some plantation owner circa 1858