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.
... 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.