Donald Trump said on Friday that farmers may be able to keep employing undocumented migrant workers without fearing enforcement raids under a system in which they would take “responsibility” for them.
Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the U.S. workforce— more than 7 million people. Many of them work in agriculture, hospitality and construction, The Guardian reports.
Shay Myers, who runs Parma, one of the country’s largest onion farms, warned that “we will not feed our people without these workers,” considering that the Department of Agriculture estimates that over 40% of industry workers are undocumented.
Your right, I double checked the number and I misremembered, it should be ⅗ not ⅕.
Okay, so what the fuck do these numbers mean? I seriously dont know and I Am kinda afraid of what they might mean.
I want to berate you if you were raised in the US and don’t know.
That said if you are younger than me in some states it’s been deemed un important over the last 20 years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise
This is referred to as “The Great Compromise”
Slave holding states wanted slaves to count for the census and free states saw that as un fair. So slaves got to count as 3/5ths of a person and everybody won! /s
I Am not from the US, but still thanks for the info. This is like the prime example to why “centrism” is actually just defending the status quo.