Hey how about a business where we go to Africa and get farm workers from there who also power our boats? Oh we have engines now? So we just go get Africans then? And we could get Chinese people to build our railroad system! What a great idea! Maybe we could teach some of these people to speak English and have them take care of our kids? I feel like I've heard of this before and it didn't go very well.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
190 points (98.5% liked)
politics
24617 readers
2265 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Will the farmers get to choose their workers? Perhaps compete with each other? In an auction?
It's just a soft sell on Slavery Lite, all the oppression with only half the calories.
soft? lite?
just straight up slavery
Hey man, we aren't slaves because we are responsible for our own housing and food without there being any guarentee of income!
Well slavery should entice a lot of them to stay. Good job trump
Let's set aside the horrific implications for a moment. And let's ignore the part about deporting American citizens as a form of collective punishment.
Just reading this in the most charitable way possible, he's saying that we could let businesses sponsor the migrant workers and in doing so allow them to stay. What a clever idea, why haven't we tried that before? Oh wait, we have, they're called work visas. Too bad half your party opposes them (while the other half wants to use them as a form of indentured servitude). Not that it even matters that much when you are deporting people who are here legally anyway.
Doesn't matter what promises Trump makes (even if he had actually meant them), when ICE has an absurdly high quota to meet and free reign to deport people without due process, no paperwork will be able to keep immigrants safe. They will just continue to go for the easiest targets
If corporations can be people then people can be objects. It's quite simple really.
I can own a corporation, so this would follow.
The real dumb thing about this is these farms do not need sustained labor. They want temporary transient labor for specific bursts like picking crops. It's been that way since the abolishment of slavery. And no citizen wants to be migratory labor yet, the bottom hasn't quite dropped that far out of the economy. Cyberpunk nomad clans have yet to be a reality.
It worked quite well a few hundreds years ago, right? So why shouldn't they try again?
I see USA solving it's problems with their ancient traditions and sensibilities. Slavery. I'd say I'm surprised, but uh...
Hmm, tell you what: maybe the migrants could live in shacks near the farm, so they wouldn't have the difficulties of finding a place to stay without papers. And the farmer could provide basic foodstuff for them. The migrants would save on commuting and groceries.
And then to solve their undocumentated status, maybe the farmers could own the migrants: if they're somebody's, then they have a legal status, right?
And then we could rename the farms plantations.
Whoa now, careful there. With the cutting of renewable energy the next thing you know companies will be offering boons like onsite housing and increased pay in the form of something like Company Tokens that can be used for good the company kindly ships in.
Whenever Repuglicants suggest anything, just speculate to the worst case scenario and there you'll find their ultimate goal.
Their voters just have no fucking sense of how bad their leaders will make things ever!
When the laws apply to people and not property, we can just start owning people as if they are property. It's really quite simple, you just need to be evil to make it work.
And if all goes well, the despicable tech billionaires are working to create company towns in rural areas of red states! Once the fascists expand beyond this "out" group...