• Turbofish@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That’s an absolutely valid point. I’m not American but in Ireland we get the same “foreigners are stealing our jobs” bullshit. I work in a meat processing plant. Most Irish new starts don’t last the first week.

      What jobs are they stealing? Jobs we won’t do? We need immigrants, we aren’t far away from a declining population. I don’t understand how people thing that’s an issue when our entire economy is propped up on migrant workers.

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      2 months ago

      Not at the wages they’re paying, anyway.

      If you want people to do back-breaking labour, then pay back-breaking money.