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700 troops have been mobilized to help ICE in raids in Florida, Louisiana and Texas
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I'm really wondering what the real reason is behind the anti-immigrant actions. Sure, racism is part of it, but there has to be a money aspect for somebody because of all the extra business.
This is generating a ton of jobs in louisiana, which is basically the last slave state as-is with how their prisons are run anyway.
Labor discipline. By terrifying migrant workers it allows employers to treat them even worse and pay them even less.
I have assumed they want downward pressure on labor costs but by removing labor you just raise the cost of it. Supply vs demand... cut off the supply and the demand peaks.
Raise the labor cost on manufacturing, food, landscaping, etc and you just raise prices for everybody, more runaway inflation happens and the US competes even less with the rest of the world.
Just doesn't add up to me. Maybe for billionaires the math works out in their favor though.
But not all labor is getting removed, and they won't really try to do so. Deportations are basically at the same level as they were under Biden iirc, the difference is that we now have spectacle in our media.
It's fundamentally just terrorism.
The private prison executives had a leaked meeting where they celebrate Trump's victory.
Fun fact, the USA still practices slavery by making prisoners exempt from the 13th Amendment which in all other cases abolished slavery. A lot of industry is constructed by convicts for cheap cheap.