Ok, so a person who by fate grows up poor in a rural area is dumb, because the government allows farmers and industry to systematically ship in a lower class of labor to exploit?
The US discriminates against poor people. The fully-loaded cost of a US citizen is too high because the do-gooders require all sorts of expensive benefits and mandates. If a farmer pays a US citizen $12/hour to pick tomatoes, he also pays another $8/hr for code-compliant housing, workers compensation and unemployment insurance.
But, simultaneously, the government turns a blind eye if you ship in some Mexicans or Latin Americans and treat them like slaves.
Collectively, we share this psychosis where society wants to provide all of these great benefits and human rights for citizens, while treating this other class of person as something less than human.
This is the #1 reason to stop illegal immigration and provide for a reasonable level of legal immigration. We create an underclass that either doesn't have legal rights or feels that they don't have legal recourse, and so they are ripe to be exploited.
The US discriminates against poor people. The fully-loaded cost of a US citizen is too high because the do-gooders require all sorts of expensive benefits and mandates. If a farmer pays a US citizen $12/hour to pick tomatoes, he also pays another $8/hr for code-compliant housing, workers compensation and unemployment insurance.
But, simultaneously, the government turns a blind eye if you ship in some Mexicans or Latin Americans and treat them like slaves.
Collectively, we share this psychosis where society wants to provide all of these great benefits and human rights for citizens, while treating this other class of person as something less than human.