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(1) Big agricultural and meat packing businesses would lose a pool of easily exploitable workers who can be paid under the table and deported at any time. 
(2) Republicans are around 45% of the electorate
Things are looking rough for meatpacking and corporate agriculture.  No more calling ICE on your employees right before payday? >

That's cool but let's also make it easier to sue the employers and then lock their asses in prison. >

From outside the country? After breaking some immigration law? With potentially some family afraid of retaliation still in the US? Good luck paying US lawyers if you had to accept a low-wage job in one of these plants.
NGOs can make a strong case, but people alone probably have other more urgent things to chase. >

Uh oh, I know some GOP handlers that will be very disappointed in this news. >

Largest employer of exploited migrant workers? The Trump Organization. >

And Twitter. >


"Unscrupulous employers who prey on the vulnerability of noncitizen workers harm all workers and disadvantage businesses who play by the rules," Mayorkas added. "We will hold these predatory actors accountable by encouraging all workers to assert their rights, report violations they have suffered or observed, and cooperate in labor standards investigations."

It’s a good blow against the evil thirst for cheap labor that this country originally abducted Africans to slake.
I fully expect conservatives to rage and bluster over this bc it contradicts the founding spirit of this settler colonial state: protecting the workers at the expense of business owners. >

Now they should create protection for them from being exploited by wannabe fascists for publicity stunts. >

That was my only thought on this, actually. So right you are. >

Why hasn’t the GOP started targeting companies that hire illegal immigrants?
They come here for the promise of a better life, which they’d get through employment. 
Remove the opportunity to illicitly obtain employment, and one of the major incentives to illegal entry is removed. 
Doesn’t that with their goals? >

A lot of illegals still file taxes with an ITIN. This means they’re paying into social security, but will likely never be able to draw on it. Cheap labor, boon to social security, and they have to be on good behavior, or risk deportation. This is how the GOP and Democrats like it, and it’s how they’ll keep it. >

I keep hearing this, but why is every city with tons of undocumented people broke then? >

Government corruption would be my guess. >

Will they actually use it though? >

The workers? Yes if they have the opportunity and access. Immigration forms are only in English, must be perfect, and have very large application fees ($800+ per person but varies by app)
People want to be legal. They already pay taxes. There is no opportunity currently for someone to become legal if they came here and overstayed a visa or didn't apply for asylum (court case and ongoing costs are enormous. My friends case is currently sitting at $18k in two years time)
Asylum cases that are rejected have no follow up opportunity. 
The US has no motivation to improve the current immigration system. Multiple corporations depend on the funding and labor provided by imprisoning undocumented people. Fun fact, these corporations are offshore entities and pay no tax. Look up GEO Group and CoreCivic REITs >

Fundamentally the way you fix things is a basic income plus a VAT tax.
That makes things cheap for citizens and expensive for immigrants. That way you can increase or reduce the flow of immigration as necessary. >

Except it would be politically toxic to ever increase the flow, and the USA economy actually relies on immigrant labor for many reasons (including that the native population is shrinking). The USA could face the issues Japan is starting to suffer with an stagnant work force. >

Would like to see a system stopping exploited workers melting under the stresses of global capitalism from facing homelessness and food insecurity. >

Gotta keep the slave train greased while still blaming everything on the border. >

Businesses can't hire people they need. Supposedly, there are simply not enough looking for work. Why not parole these migrant workers into the U.S. to help fill this employment void?