#undocumented workers

[onlytiktoks]

To Karen Cruz Berrios, her mother is a hard-working, devoted single parent. To the Department of Homeland Security, she is “ … an associate

[ourrace-sexraceandculture]

Project2025 is their blueprint, their guidelines for a "White society", but because Trump is such an idiot and the fact that he's hired some of the most unqualified, uneducated, and pretty dumb, people to work beside him, much of how he's rolling out his agenda looks like he's making it up as he goes along, and that's where we capitalize, this is where we plan ahead, because with him having roughly about 3 1/2 years left in office, we need to prepare to play the long game, & ultimately, the end game! Let us put aside our petty and really quite stupid differences and ban together, unite with our brothers & sisters wherever they may be and whoever they may be, because we are definitely stronger together. So, let's get our heads out of our asses and punch back, we gotta go harder, THIS IS WAR, literally! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

[saywhat-politics]

Trump's deportation efforts could impact these industries and states that rely on undocumented workers

Unauthorized immigrants make up nearly 5% of the U.S. workforce, according to 2022 estimates, and a higher share in construction and agricul

The Trump administration resumed more aggressive workplace immigration enforcement earlier this week after briefly pausing arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants last week.

"The message is clear now that we're going to continue doing worksite enforcement operations, even on farms and hotels, but based on a prioritized basis," President Trump's "border czar," Tom Homan, said Thursday, adding, "Criminals come first."

The White House argues that undocumented workers drive down wages and take jobs from American-born workers. But some farming and hospitality industry leaders have warned the administration that large-scale deportations could disrupt operations, as many of these workers fill essential jobs that are difficult to replace with domestic labor.

Undocumented immigrants make up a sizable slice of the workforce in not only hospitality and farming but also construction and manufacturing.

Additionally, undocumented workers are spread across the U.S., including in blue states like California and New Jersey, and in states that supported Mr. Trump in the 2024 election, like Texas, Florida, and Nevada, which have some of the biggest shares of unauthorized workers.

[tearsofrefugees]

ICE agents accused of leaving New Jersey children unattended after arresting father

Police arrested the undocumented worker last week as he was taking his 15-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter, both U.S. citizens, to scho

[tomfoolerytotality]

Undocumented immigration is the very definition of a victimless crime. They are not taking your tax dollars. They are not eligible for social security. They are not responsible for the jobs crisis, greed and automation is. They pay millions of dollars into social programs they don't benefit from. They are nothing more than the rich and elites scapegoat for all the problems they caused us.

Yet despite this, my home state of Missouri has introduced bill SB72. This bill does a number of things, for starters it changes undocumented immigration from a civil crime to a felony. This prohibits undocumented immigrants from EVER applying for citizenship or a visa.

Additionally, making the crime a felony now means it's punishable by jail time rather than deportation. So, how much jail time does this bill recommend for the crime of undocumented immigration? LIFE IMPRISIONMENT WITH NO CHANCE FOR PAROLE, PROBATION, OR EARLY RELEASE. They don't want these people out of the country, they want them enslaved in Missouri's labor camps.

And if that wasn't bad enough, this bill allows for what they're calling "Missouri Illegal Alien Certified Bounty Hunters". They are proposing paying citizens $1,000 per person they report to the government as undocumented.

Below, I've attached the official bill summary from the Missouri State Senate website. The sick sack of shit sponsoring this bill is Missouri Senator David Gregory

If you'd like to contact Mr. Gregory, his office is 201 W. Capitol Ave., Rm. 331

Jefferson City, Missouri 65101

His phone number is 573-751-5568

He can also be emailed through this page on senate.mo.gov

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Trump suggests undocumented farm workers are ‘naturally’ designed for field work

The president’s preoccupation with immigrants and genetics seems to be getting worse.

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Trump's deportation efforts could impact these industries and states that rely on undocumented workers

Unauthorized immigrants make up nearly 5% of the U.S. workforce, according to 2022 estimates, and a higher share in construction and agricul

[haleyhalcyon]

⚠️ CW: The Q-slur, used uncensored. ⚠️

The whole fervor around the Q-slur is so incomprehensible to me because it’s backwards from every other epithet for an oppressed and alienated minority.

For comparison, if you say “illegal aliens” you get a flurry of angry corrections that rightfully point out that you’re abnormalizing them. “Illegal” strips these people of the legitimacy to exist, despite that “no human is illegal”. “Alien” means “abnormal”, “foreign”, and “weird”, despite that many of these undocumented immigrants pay into the US’s tax and Social Security system (like any other American) and get nothing in return (unlike documented Americans).

Just recently, the White House published an ICE Deportation Tracker themed around the movie Alien, and all of you rightfully got outraged that these people—We say “undocumented immigrants”, excuse you very much!—are not “alien” invaders that “walk among us”.

We say “undocumented immigrants” to normalize them; we say “illegal immigrants” to abnormalize them.

But here’s what grinds my goddamn gears: Why do so many of you love that abnormalizing slur for sexual minorities?!

“Queer” means “odd”, “weird”, “abnormal”, “alien”. Even before it first referred to gay people, it had many negative meanings in slang, like “fake” and “shoddy”. By all accounts, it should be as sternly frowned upon to call LGBT people “queer people” as it is to call undocumented immigrants “aliens”.

And yet. And yet! For some incomprehensible reason, the very people who should be championing sexual minorities’ right to exist as a normal part of any society are instead also calling us “queer”, and meaning it! We are already abnormalized by cis-hetero-patriarchical society stabbing us with “smear the queer”, and now our supposed “allies” and “community members” are backstabbing us with “WE’RE here, WE’RE queer”! Instead of pushing back against that crushing oppression, they decided to become the other arm of the vise grip!

Make it make sense! Why is it not cool to call someone an “alien”, while it’s totally hunky-dory to call someone “a queer person”?! They should be both unacceptable in any reasonable society.

No group of people should be abnormalized, no matter how “progressively” or “inclusively” you think you’re doing it.