Trump deportation surge left Texas with shortage of home builders. Now Republican wants completely new visa to fix that

Dumb as fuck on top of fuck.

If the only way an industry could survive is through immigration, it is obvious that there needs to be a legal path for the skilled workers to immigrate. Maybe this should have been considered before the deportation surge.

But I suspect given the sponsors of this legislation that this is unlikely to have a path to citizenship and will amount to indentured servitude.

If ICE is rounding up anyone who looks Hispanic, ignoring or dismissing their papers, then a new visa isn't going to help, is it?

So apparently ICE doesn't accept given official id anyways, why is anyone going to want to come on a hope they don't end up in a concentration camp? Yeah I'm not betting on those odds.

Texas builders were happy to exploit people who they could underpay for their labor due to their precarious position. If we gave immigrants regardless of status workers rights like minimum wage and union protection the new complaint wouldn't be about deportations, but about how wages are too high right now.

Brocero Program 2.0

It's funny how the US relationship with Mexico and South America has ping-ponged back and forth between "We need these people to sustain the economy!" and "These people are invaders who are erasing our culture!" for like the last century.

I said it back during Trump's first term and I'll say it again (and again and again as time moves forward, as I'm sure people will never wise up to the game) - illegal immigration is a nothingburger of an issue that gets puffed up every time an authoritarian needs a scapegoat to blame all of societies woes on.

Can we all just agree to not give a shit about Texas? Oh, and Florida.

Fuck no. Migrant workers can have jobs with people who won't fuck them over. Until members of the Regime are forced to be worm food, the USA ain't fit to hire anybody.

This brand new visa is called the:

Standard

Labor

Agreement

for

Varied

Employment

Or SLAVE for short. Please disregard the similarity to the word depicting the oppression of others. It REALLY has nothing to do with that. REALLY!!!

Probably the only guy who became president in a very long time to actually have a well thought out immigration policy was George W. Bush (yes, the war criminal) back when he was governor of Texas. He even wanted to implement some of it as president. Unfortunately, he was a dummy, Cheney was a cartoon villain, and 9/11 absolutely derailed any conversations about doing anything that did not involve killing muslims and erroding Americans' civil liberties.

To this day, some of his immigration ideas are what MAGA would call super woke.

https://www.bushcenter.org/topics/immigration

Deport a shitload of people at great financial and human cost, then spend more money to create an entirely new class of visas so they can come back to a country that has not just deported migrants legally here, but people who have citizenship! Very small government and big brained.

SURE, get a visa, then ICE sees you, beats you and maybe kills you, then throws you into a deplorable concentration camp for weeks.

If ICE can detain you without checking your papers and with no due process for the crime of looking a bit too bronze, what good is a new type of visa?

They want an endless supply of people they can keep pointing to as the 'out crowd.' They keep using the stick, but neglected any use of the carrot. Now the mule has gotten wise to them.

Funny, I remember Florida running into a similar issue a few years ago when DeSantis passed that law making it illegal for migrant workers/immigrants to drive or for US citizens to drive them.

Houses left to rot as workers fled the state and supply chains disrupted as freight trucks refused to enter the state and simply dumped their loads at the border.

I never did hear how that worked out for them, but I imagine they quietly walked back that law and pretended that it never happened.

Imagine how desperate one would have to even have a fleeting thought of applying for this visa. And again, why aren't they addressing the businesses role?

I figured this would happen

From the House member's page:

The legislation responds to pressing labor shortages in essential industries by creating a market-driven temporary worker program that adapts to economic conditions. The bill creates a new H-2C nonimmigrant visa, available to employers who prove their positions have gone unfilled for three consecutive months and in areas where the unemployment rate is 7.9% or less. 

Wasn't this a pain point with H-1Bs? They want things to cost less but don't want to bring in cheap foreign labour to depress wages? How do they not understand supply and demand? "Go be a plumber, they make good money" "Wow, this quote I got from that plumber is so high" "Me be a plumber? No way"

It's so stupid it hurts. And even if they get such a solution, nobody will come anymore.

Hey can a fellow leopard pass me some of that face-flavored popcorn?

And the visasl application deposits are efficiently channeled into accounts coincidentallt controlled by whom?

A tale as old as time.