He repeated the unsubstantiated claim that undocumented immigrants were planning on taking “Black jobs”,[...]“Anybody that has a job – that’s what it is. They’re taking the employment away from Black people.”
Ugh… so much bullshit but this one caught my eye because I’m just so fucking sick of it…
Undocumented immigrants aren’t ”taking” those jobs. What happens is companies (yes, companies, the things our lovely SCOTUS decided are more human than us in 2010) take advantage of undocumented immigrants in order to:
1. avoid paying decent, living wage
2. avoid paying for any health coverage
3. be able to force them to work longer hours than is legal
4. be able to force them to do more dangerous jobs for much less with little to no safety equipment/precautions.
I’m sure there are things I’m forgetting. But fucking stop blaming this on the immigrants. They are usually in desperate, terrifying situations. This shit is all on the corporations.