• joel1974@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Farms will stop functioning. Lemmys will go to the grocery store and say “where is the food?”

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      6 months ago

      A good chunk of restaurants will also suddenly close or have massive price hikes when they can’t count on taking advantage of undocumented people and paying them sub-minimum wage off the books.

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        6 months ago

        A lot of people have absolutely no idea just how much of their food and housing is so cheap because of (often undocumented) immigrant laborers.

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          6 months ago

          Food, yes. But housing? How do you figure?

          Also, lol at calling housing “cheap”.

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            6 months ago

            Every contractor out there uses undocumented labor. Drywall, roofing, landscaping, all skyrocket in price without the labor of immigrants.

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              6 months ago

              That’s true. But you’re wrong about calling housing “cheap”, unless you’re in “flyover country”.

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                6 months ago

                Cheap is subjective but if it makes you feel better to say “you’re wrong” then OK, thanks for contributing.

                It would be more expensive without undocumented labor.

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              6 months ago

              The industry I work in "flooring " hope you don’t want carpet or floors install in your homes. Because 99% of the labor done by illegal immigrants.

              They are responsible for all the apartments in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area I know for a fact.

              And the reason they only ones doing it because what I been told by few older contractors is pricing for carpet installers hasn’t changed since the fucking 1990’s.