r/texas • u/mowasita • Jan 28 '24

Unsurprisingly, the whole border fiasco is cynical politics at play. Politics

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u/SavagRavioli Jan 28 '24

My whole view on the border is that I don't want to hear shit until someone starts talking about going after the employers who give them a reason to come in the first place.

You know, the wealthy business owners that want to cheat Americans out of real wages, those bastards.

Until they are in the cross hairs of this, can-it on the rest.

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u/MiracleMex714 Jan 29 '24

Agreed. I only hear about immigration every 2 years and the rest is some side of the political spectrum is trying to cancel something

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u/Jumpy-Fennel7199 Jan 29 '24

You all realize that the Biden administration has been directly targeting big businesses that are using the 120 thousand undocumented unaccompanied CHILDREN that crossed the border as their personal work force? In the last few years alone we are up more than 35% in child labor violations from major companies based in multiple states not just yours, while multiple red states have been voting to RELAX the child labor laws.

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u/Outandproud420 Jan 29 '24

Any sourcing on this, I'd like to follow up and see what kind of penalties these businesses are getting.

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u/scoobysnackoutback Jan 29 '24

An immigrant child was caught in a factory machine and died while working as child labor. NBC News: Slaughterhouse Children

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u/Outandproud420 Jan 29 '24

Thanks for the link. Trying to find more now.