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.