• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yes, job positions can be vacant. Americans tend to not want to do jobs like working fields on farms.

    I don’t really understand this argument. Is this 2004? This has all been talked to death. Immigrants are “taking” virtually no jobs. For that to be true, there would have needed to have been a time where practically no immigrants were present, but then more recently they have been flooding in. Unless you’re a Fox news zombie, you know that’s obviously not what’s happened. Immigrants have always been here and always will be here (and in every other country). The choice we have is how humanely we treat them and what process we provide them for getting here legally. The rhetoric that they’re “taking jobs” only serves to fuel racism. There’s basically zero truth to it. Educate yourself. I’ve had enough sealioning for today.

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      Working fields on a farm doesn’t sound like a new job people didn’t do before. But one reason these jobs aren’t being done anymore is because the capitalists don’t have to pay a decent wage or give decent working conditions because of immigration. It means job losses but also means exploitation of the immigrants to do the “shit jobs” which isn’t great either.

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        We both know that I meant specific positions can be vacant. Unless you think the number of field workers literally has never changed.

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          I was talking about how certain jobs or fields are moving to immigrant labour and that means people are losing their jobs. I was confused about what I thought your claim was.