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Schmitt: "The answer is opening those opportunities up for American workers. You just saw a food processing plant open that had folks who were arrested & sent away then you had American workers actually sign up. It's a myth that Americans don't want to work hard & do these jobs. Of course they will"

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Back in the 90s Border Patrol raids scared off the migrant workers in Fla. The citrus grove owners couldn’t find workers. They ran ads in the papers trying to hire students on vacation. They couldn’t find workers and the fruit rotted in the orchards.

Its been their talking point for ever that immigrants are “ taking our jobs” Well …If these deported people were stealing a career from you? Heres your chance , there will be plenty of openings

No they won't. These businesses won't pay enough, mot Americans do not want to work stoop labour, the rest of Americans don't want to pay higher prices for food. This guy is smoking some really good stuff, because he is totally delusional. How about his kids and grand kids sign up first.

All of this regime’s acts are designed to return America to the pre-1911 era of the Robber Barons—when so many people fought for ANY job to feed their family, and the system (broken by the publication of ‘The Jungle’ and Teddy Roosevelt) ground them up and spit them out to die.

imagine being so piss poor at work that you need to deport better people so that your downtraught bad white workers can actually get jobs. We're lowering standards, not making them better. People who cry about immigrants taking their jobs are just admitting they aren't good workers and cant compete.

yup. they said they always came to work on time ready to work and did more than they had to and went above and beyond. didnt the dude also say they spesifically came in sober? Implying other workers of non haitian relation came in drunk or intoxicated :T really, really pathetic tbh

Those places would never pay a living wage, benefits, and conform to laws they themselves have broken. They would rather cry about not being able to take advantage of human beings than BE good ones!

If you keep them poor, make them struggle and give them no options of course they will. That wasn't and will never be the American dream. Meanwhile, Billionaires whine that the tax code restricts the number of yachts and jets they can own.

Is there anyone who does a full rebuttal of their press conferences? Ok so he says this…. At least written somewhere is there a fact-check? We need real time fact checking for all these people.

American workers could possibly be working those jobs if employers paid a living wage. Let’s not pretend immigrants are paid fairly to begin with. This country’s minimum wage is still set at the federal level at $7.25. Let’s start there.

100%. But what's dumb is that they shouldn't be kicking people out who are already willing to do those jobs. They should want us fighting over those jobs to drive the wages down even more. But their racism is stronger than their greed.

For now. Eventually a non moron who's every bit as evil as Trump will sit in the Oval. Look at all the damage he's done with a mostly incompetent cabinet. Imagine them upgraded, which isn't hard to do. We'll be f'd.

That's why I'm so terrified of what's to come. Thankfully Trump seems to have a unique hold on the conservatives of this country. Imagine that cult devotion but with a non moron version of Trump in the Oval. Vance, thankfully, has the charisma of childhood leukemia.

These pea-brained idiots have lost their damned minds. No white people are lining up to work in a food processing plant. It's back breaking, repetitive work, with long hours and little pay! And, will never afford them the opportunity to get off Medicaid!

Flooding the airwaves w tons of 💩. Farmers will pay a huge price, lose their crops while immigrants suffering in Alligator Alcatraz. I hate this brand of Republican

So basically they want to take us back to the Industrial Age, where we all work at factories as the country is ruled by...hey, familiar! Wealthy oligarchs! BTW guess what else is coming back? Child labor. Why waste potential workers by having them go to school? They need to produce!

Let's see this list of American workers who then signed up. But great pitch: hey Americans! You have along careers ahead of you picking our fruit and on the factory lines where our iPhones are made! Now get back to work! I have a private plane to catch for my vacation on the French Riviera.

And people who are in states that don't have food processing plants are simply going to relocate to those areas, and the plants will cover those costs and provide fair wages and health care and...hello...are you still there?

No one ever said Americans wouldn’t do these jobs. They said that companies don’t want to pay competitive wages and follow safety laws that Americans would demand, so they prefer people they can exploit and discard. And also, that there literally aren’t enough Americans to do all the jobs.

Pretty sure they're gonna get raided again. "Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.comHow a city in Nebraska is recovering after the state's largest worksite immigration raidOmaha is trying to forge ahead following the raid's chilling effect on the local workforce and the community at large.

I had no trouble getting work picking fruit or working in a factory. Very hard work, very low wages, but I needed it to put myself through school. The employee turnover rate is high (many can't do the work). They almost always need people. Picking is less than minimum wage, they pay by the pound.

I applied at the Armour beef packing plant in Portland, Oregon when I graduated high school. I went into the office and it smelled totally disgusting and that's not even the meatpacking area. It's the office.

At full production the plant will employ 1,300 people. They opened in April, have hired only 400 employees and said the majority are skilled hires and local residents. The govt provided them millions in welfare. They are still hiring all positions. How long to find the 1000+ more folks they need?

Not only finding workers, but getting them to stay. Found this 2016 article which lists turnover rate "often 100 percent or more annually," w/main contributing factor being due to injury and lack of employee support when injury occurs. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

inthesetimes.comNew Study Reveals Just How Brutal Meat and Poultry Work Is for WorkersInvestigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

The truth is, immigrants have been exploited for years, to the profit of people who pay them pennies to harvest crops, clean toilets, and even take care of homes and children, etc. There aren't going to be long lines of white privileged people lining up to do these jobs. GTFOH!!!!!!

In fairness neither do the immigrants… it’s just what they can get… it’s something that should be addressed.. if rich corporations are responsible for paying for their workers expenses all of it.. then we could subsidize workers who have less $ jobs.. this is all so fucked up .. on many levels..

We do need to keep calling out the journalists though, it's the only way, plus I never ever watch FOX News or any of the other MSM as they have become propaganda nonsense.

Yes, you are right! However, Mainstream Media is owned by oligarchs and only represent what the 1% want covered. This is bad for our country and not what the press was invented for, which was to tell the facts. Sad!😥

The real infiltration from our enemies was journalism schools where they taught current "journalists" complacency and access journalism. See Maggie Haberman who MADE Trump.

How much are they paying them? I would bet substantially more than what they were paying the others. I'll start believing the maladministration's naratives when we see "American workers" picking crops in the fields all day, every day, at piecework wages ... for more than a week.

If America keeps going the way it's going, those prisoners will end up in those fields, slaughterhouses, and factories, "earning" just enough to pay for enough food and shelter to keep themselves alive. The Trump maladministration is creating a modern slave class of workers, with zero rights.

The line of “American workers” clamoring for jobs in a food processing plant… Or to pick crops in the hot sun. Or clean your houses, mow your lawn, take care of your Grandpa in his nursing home….

Interesting sentence: Of course they will. I'm not holding my breath. Will sounds like he & gov will FORCE American workers to sign up, whether they like it or not. Americans have had yrs to sign up but didn't. That will not change except under force.

I want the name of that plant...the ones in Iowa have Americans who are immigrants with green cards signing up...at least they were before they were afraid that status wouldn't keep them from being arrested. My nephews turn up their noses at those jobs. They will work on construction until too hard

Britain in the 80s had an economic boom because of the influx of immigrants. The US has had its booms from the influx of immigrants who actually built everything. Dubai built by immigrants This guy, undisturbed nonsense, labour costs are competitive and come down with an influx of immigrants

I did work briefly in a meat packing plant. I don’t wanna talk about it as it was ghastly & I can no longer cope with it. The supervisors were white. The majority were Latinx though. This was around 15 yrs ago but I doubt it’s changed much. Those jobs are/were staffed by Latinx immigrants.

Is the working hypothesis that undocumented folks were being preferentially hired for these job? excluding real Americans? That sounds like a problem that can be more efficiently handled by arresting those doing the hiring. Of course there's no theater in that. No cosplay. No rascist vilification

This seemed to happen very very quickly. The plant opened, hired employees, some of whom got arrested, then "American" workers applied, got hired, and are now doing the jobs. Sounds fishy. Can we at least have the name and location of that plant?

The people of colour being removed unconstitutionally from their workplaces pay billions in taxes. As the regime is so interested in doing the right thing it should refund said monies to the hard working people it is targeting based not on criminal activity but on skin colour. Also unless he can 1/

prove what he said about Americans filling said jobs his words are worthless. Republicans have long since surrendered any right to automatic acceptance of their statements. In enabling the greatest Traitor of all they have rendered themselves Traitors and as such it is fair to question every 2/

Well, that sounds like my dream job... Seriously how stupid are these people? I know the dirty jobs guy is now MAGA or maybe MAGA light, but a lot of jobs are still miserable. Don't expect a line of people to do them at minimum wage.

Americans don't even wanna work the "good" jobs cuz literally everything but being insanely rich already pays shit and you're lucky if you get a week vacation and expensive healthcare that covers more than a physical We work cuz we're forced to, not cuz we love these miserable jobs

"If we engineer your world so that you're gonna be homeless and starve to death if you don't sign up for farm work or some other job we can pay you less than minimum wage," Said Schmitt, "Y'all are gonna do it and say "thank you sir" or some guy in a mask is gonna decide you're brown and CECOT you"

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Schmitt: "The answer is opening those opportunities up for American workers. You just saw a food processing plant open that had folks who were arrested & sent away then you had American workers actually sign up. It's a myth that Americans don't want to work hard & do these jobs. Of course they will"

I’m in food processing plants all the time. 99% of the floor workers are people of color, mostly Haitians and Mexicans. Most make $12 an hour. You’ll have to double that before a white person would consider it.

He is so wrong. Nobody wants to do meat packing jobs and these weren't criminals they were hard working men and women who just wanted to support their families. These GOP are so out of touch

Lemme get this straight. “opportunities” that “Americans” didn’t want opened up at the new food processing plant!! When “folks” took those jobs, they got “arrested & sent away.” Then “Americans” swooped in and got all those primo jobs!! Love a story with a happy ending. 💋 Where’s this plant, btw?

All the Republicans and government could go work there since they don’t do anything right now. They could use the exercise instead of sitting on their butts doing nothing and collecting close to 200 grand a year.

Ask these MAGA Republican morons to explain why undocumented immigrants had/have an advantage over Americans when it comes to getting these manual labor jobs. Are the immigrants superior workers? Or is it something else...