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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 02:34 PM Feb 2019

This may be the most accurate and succinct summary of US immigration policy since the Reagan era

@RKB42Luck

It needs to be understood that Republicans brought the "illegals" into the US for exploitable labor and to break unions. They refused to make them legal because then their strategy wouldn't have worked - and now they want to treat them like dirt for political advantage.


Douglas A. Blackmon Retweeted RKB42Luck

This may be the most accurate and succinct summary of US immigration policy since the Reagan era that I’ve ever read.

Though the “normalization” by Reagan & @GOP was to legalize millions already working in construction, agri & hotels for wealthy Americans like @realDonaldTrump.




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This may be the most accurate and succinct summary of US immigration policy since the Reagan era (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Feb 2019 OP
Perfect malaise Feb 2019 #1
anyone remember the United Farm Workers? DBoon Feb 2019 #2
They still exist IronLionZion Feb 2019 #8
Makes Perfect Sense-Republicans Adore Cheap Labor and Have Long Sought to Destroy Unions dlk Feb 2019 #3
Excellent point about the unions. dameatball Feb 2019 #4
2+2 world wide wally Feb 2019 #5
Brilliant. Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #6
K & R Duppers Feb 2019 #7
It is very simple... safeinOhio Feb 2019 #9

DBoon

(22,976 posts)
2. anyone remember the United Farm Workers?
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 02:39 PM
Feb 2019

wonder what happened to them. They were once a force to be reckoned with.

IronLionZion

(46,850 posts)
8. They still exist
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 03:34 PM
Feb 2019
https://ufw.org/

They pop up in the news every now and then, like when a lot of workers died of heat stroke when regulations were not followed by their employer.

They lost most of their power during the anti-union actions of the 1980s.

dlk

(12,237 posts)
3. Makes Perfect Sense-Republicans Adore Cheap Labor and Have Long Sought to Destroy Unions
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 02:39 PM
Feb 2019

Republicans play a long game.

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