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'We Rely on Hispanic Labor': ICE Raids Trigger Economic Alarm Bells in Trump States
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You'd think that Trump states would remember the very recent stupidity they went through when they passed anti-immigrant laws and lost billions of dollars when they realized that immigrants made the state go round and what Democrats say is true that white people don't want to do those jobs.
And then I remember they're Republican.
I bet native people would want to do those jobs, but the real stickler is they'll want a livable wage to go along with it.
I wish I could find the article where they talked to a few farmers in Georgia where they did increase the wage but none of the Real American's^TM came back because the work was too hard for their soft, soft Real American^TM hands.
But here's some other stories that I found:
https://www.walb.com/story/15626967/hb-87-costing-georgia-big-bucks/
and the failed use of probationers:
https://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/ga-immigrant-crackdown-backfires-057551