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KeepFlying@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t support mass deportations but I understand why people do. Id prefer amnesty (especially for children and families who have been here for years) followed by eased legal immigration processes to make it easier to come here legally.
What bothers me recently though isn’t mass deportations themselves, it’s the way they are being done. Unmarked officers, no oversight, sketchy warrants that prey on people’s lack of knowledge of their rights, strong arming local organizations and governments to hand over info, punishing people who are trying to fix their status or lost it on a technicality, etc.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I think we should make all work legal. They can be here, they can receive wages, their kids go to school. as As long as they don’t commit any crimes just let them exist, whatever.
…but hiring someone without a visa should be extremely illegal. Like decades in prison illegal. Should fix the rampant human trafficking pretty quickly. A lot of these employers do it because they don’t have to worry about treating the workers fairly. They should be terrified of illegal workers telling on them. And after they’re done telling on one human trafficker let them go find another job and tell on him too.
If we were tossing people in prison for hiring illegal immigrants their job market would dry up immediately and the problem would resolve very quickly.