7-eleven management just took a big gulp! Interesting as this strikes into a texas company that I would assume supports dump.
FFS, some kid working for minimum wage at the Quicky Mart is now a top national priority?
It’s actually spelled Kwik-E-Mart and Apu isn’t a kid anymore.
ICE should “audit” Trump hotels and golf courses.
ICE should also be sure none of those 7-Eleven workers are having sex with white girls.
Big Republican government.
I think it’s a safe bet that Trump has never been inside a 7-Eleven.
Probably decided to target convenience stores after watching a few minutes of The Simpsons (during a commercial break from Hannity) and being horrified by the demographic tidal wave represented by Kwik-E-Mart proprietor Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and his family.
Sure, they’re cute now, but just wait a few years…
It’s part of the GOP pro-business job creation program. Round up and deport all the illegals who are stealing American jobs so the employers can use the profits from their tax cuts to pay $4,000 a year more to the oppressed middle class workers who will now flock to 7-Eleven so they can help MAGA.
Meanwhile Mar-a-Lago gets off scott-free with all their illegals.
What a country…when a fascist dictator rules, this is what happens.
So they’re going after small-time franchisees in big blue cities – instead of actual major employers like agribusiness, because even they are not dumb enough to go pissing off those Trumpy jus’-folks farmers in Iowa, Florida and Georgia, etc., who rely on exploitable immigrant farm labor to bring the crops in, just like they’re not actually going to trash NAFTA – they just needed to be able to tell those old Rust Belt rubes that.
I have no love for bodega-killing 7-11s. Fuck 'em. But this is, of course, a series of show-raids and nothing more. If they really wanted to do mass-deportation, crops would rot in the fields, food prices would skyrocket and Midwestern states would elect a lot more Democrats.
And in the meantime, may FSM help those poor immigrant workers – the people that actually make America great.
These cretins scream to the highest hills about the evils of “Big Government.” But never forget that this same group of Jack-o-napes wants a government big enough to crawl into everyone’s cell phone, creep into everyone’s bedroom to enforce their notion of “Morality” and into every women’s body to enforce their idea of the "Sanctity of life.’
This is just part of his master plan to piss off every East Asian country he can target.
It isn’t just hardliners who are pushing for tougher sanctions against employers. Anybody who really wants immigration reform realizes that employers who are taking advantage of the undocumented are really the problem. Get their attention and comprehensive immigration reform will follow immediately.
Will the public gladly pay food prices reflecting their planting, harvesting and processing costs as performed by people being paid the prevailing wage? Do you really think every state could resort to prison labor, like Georgia tried, once it became evident indigenous, U.S. born workers said “Screw this, no one will work this hard for a day’s pay, certainly not me!!”
To forgo a repeat of last year, when labor shortages triggered an estimated $140 million in agricultural losses, as crops rotted in the fields, officials in Georgia are now dispatching prisoners to the state’s farms to help harvest fruit and vegetables.
The labor shortages, which also have affected the hotel and restaurant industries, are a consequence of Georgia’s immigration enforcement law, HB 87, which was passed last year. As State Rep. Matt Ramsey, one of the bill’s authors, said at the time, “Our goal is … to eliminate incentives for illegal aliens to cross into our state.”
***Now he and others are learning: Be careful what you wish for, because you may get more than you bargained for.***
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-georgias-immigration-law-backfires/#529d7e7c492a
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There are dozens of interviews and articles to be found wherein employers claim were they limited to documented, local labor they may as well lock their doors. Especially the meat processing centers in the Midwest, chiefly Iowa.
Fine, kick everyone out. Be a hardass about having all your papers in order. Just don't bitch about what you pay for a lot of things afterward. That is, if they can even be found to buy. And once the domestic production and harvesting/processing of food goes to hell in various sectors be prepared for foreign suppliers to put immense pressure on the government to allow imports of their goods. Again, be careful what you wish for, you may get it.Easy pickin’s.
I’ve long been curious how American businessmen would like Republicans who really believe their own shit, versus the traditional hypocrites who talk a tough game to the base, while quietly letting businessmen enjoy their cheap labor just fine.
Comprehensive immigration reform is just that–comprehensive. It would include guest worker provisions.
Some years ago I had an opportunity to work with a large mainline charity delivering food and clothing to undocumented people working in the chicken industry in one of the mid-western states. The conditions were horrible, so was the pay provided by the multi-national corporation running the chicken operations. Workers compensation was non-existent. Their kids went to substandard schools if they went at all. They had no health care or unemployment insurance. I don’t know who the company pad off in state and local government but lots of blind eyes were turned. It was the early 21st century but you would have thought it was the early 20th century. Nobody complained because if they did they were turned over to ICE to be sent back to central America. Sorry, I don’t think anybody is well served by multi-nationals using illegal immigrants as slaves even if the CEOs live like kings. There is a reason we can’t get real immigration reform.
In all honesty if people are not getting paid the minimum wage or being exploited in other ways than these could be good things.
On the other hand, the climate of fear and uncertainty will make for a rocky business climate for jobs that employ low wage workers. Can’t imagine this on a large scale against commercial and residential developers who use construction workers. If they did this in Texas it would seriously undermine any growth in the construction industry.