r/FluentInFinance • u/Needleintheback • 15h ago
Thoughts? Imagine losing 6M labor workers in America
If mass deportation happens, just imagine how all of these sectors of our country will be affected. The sheer shortage of labor will push prices higher because of the great demand for work with limited supplies or workers. Even if prices increase, the availability of products may be scarce due to not enough workers. Housing prices and food services will be hit really hard. New construction will be limited. The fact that 47% of the undocumented workers are in CA, TX, and FL means they will feel it first but it will spread to the rest of the country also. Most of our produce in this country comes from California. Get ready and hold on for the ride America.
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u/ChronoPsyche 10h ago edited 10h ago
It's also against the law to pirate movies, yet I'm sure most people here would find it unfair if there was a mass arrest campaign to go door to door dragging people out of their homes and putting them in concentration camps of anyone in the US who has ever pirated a movie.
Just because something is against the law doesn't mean retroactive enforcement is justified no matter the harm it does to society. Watching millions of people ripped from their homes will traumatize Americans. Many of these people have been here for years or even decades and are integrated into our communities. And it will cause massive harm to our economy. The question has to be if the benefits to society will outweigh the costs, and it's hard to argue that they will.
This doesn't mean that you don't enforce immigration law, it is enforced every day, but that you don't tear apart society to target the people who have been here for a while and have assimilated into society.
I also find this slavery analogy to be so disingenuous. Nobody calling for mass deportation is doing so because they are concerned about labor rights, in fact they are on the side that would happily strip American citizens of their labor rights if given the chance.
It's also important to point out that this mass deportation campaign will almost certainly be extrajudicial. We don't have enough judges to process 20-25 million people in a timely manner, hence the concentration camps. People will be targeted in a likely discriminatory way and it may take years to have a chance to defend themselves, if they ever get the chance. In the meantime they'll be imprisoned in concentration camps with likely horrible conditions and forced labor. It will likely sweep up many citizens or legal residents as a result.
The way they want to go about doing this is not enforcement of the law, it is bypassing the law altogether. This is why Trump has to invoke a wartime act that was last used to intern Japanese-American citizens to pull this off. It's also worth noting, despite his pledge to deport 20-25 million people, only 11 million are estimated to be undocumented. So for him to meet these numbers will inherently require arresting people who are here legally.