On a recent factory shift in the northern Mexican city of Saltillo, Honduran refugee Walter Banegas extracted a steaming-hot piece of molded metal destined for a street lamp from a die-casting machine.
I’ll contend all day long that the ‘Texas Miracle ™’ is largely built on the backs of underpaid Latin/Mexican labor. (I would say totally, but that oil $$$ does its work too.) Republicans shitting all over immigration does, in fact, rob their localities of economic gains. I hope migrants in Mexico are treated more humanely than the United States has done. Hell, that’s still quite the low bar.
I wouldn’t count on it. We have incredibly comprehensible laws that more often than not go unenforced. But then again, we don’t really have rampant racism like on the states, and tend to be largely welcoming of immigrants, so there’s that.
I’ll contend all day long that the ‘Texas Miracle ™’ is largely built on the backs of underpaid Latin/Mexican labor. (I would say totally, but that oil $$$ does its work too.) Republicans shitting all over immigration does, in fact, rob their localities of economic gains. I hope migrants in Mexico are treated more humanely than the United States has done. Hell, that’s still quite the low bar.
I wouldn’t count on it. We have incredibly comprehensible laws that more often than not go unenforced. But then again, we don’t really have rampant racism like on the states, and tend to be largely welcoming of immigrants, so there’s that.