#migrant exploitation

[godisarepublican]

[meltyman666]

The first potential law passed in the US will likely have imprisoned migrants working in agriculture/traditionally exploitative jobs for “slave wages” and inhumane hours. The private prison industrial complex will profit heavily from the Laken Riley Act.

[videoworm]

looking up dermographics charts of different countries and looking up wtf happened at noticable changes

[reasonsforhope]

"California will begin paying for free legal help with immigration for undocumented farmworkers who are involved in state investigations of wage theft or other labor violations, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced this week.

The $4.5 million pilot program will provide qualifying farmworkers with referrals for legal help with their immigration status. 

Roughly half of California’s farmworker population is believed to be undocumented. Fear of deportation and difficulties finding jobs can discourage workers from filing labor complaints or serving as witnesses in cases alleging unsafe work temperatures, wage theft, or employer retaliation for unionizing, officials said...

Respecting immigrant rights

Farmworkers in labor investigations who qualify for the new state program will receive a direct referral to legal services organizations that already offer immigration services, such as the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County or the United Farm Workers Foundation, which spoke in support of the program. 

The free legal services workers could receive include case review, legal advice and representation by an attorney, according to Newsom’s office...

Deferred deportation

State officials said the pilot program aligns with a new Biden administration policy that makes it easier for undocumented workers who are victims of labor rights violations to request deferred action from deportation. Because the federal Department of Homeland Security can’t respond to all immigration violations, it exercises “prosecutorial discretion” to decide who to try to deport.

State officials said they won’t ask for workers’ immigration status, but noncitizens granted this deferred action may be eligible for work authorization.

This year, California labor department officials began supporting undocumented workers’ requests for prosecutorial discretion or deferred action from federal immigration officials, including when employers threaten workers with immigration enforcement to prevent workers from cooperating with state investigators. 

“The Department of Industrial Relations’ Labor Commissioner’s Office … was the first state agency to request deferred action from DHS for employees in an active investigation, and that request was successful,” Hickey said. “This is an important process for undocumented workers to be aware of.”"

-via CalMatters, July 21, 2023

[sweet-milky-tea705]

God i hate this country so much. It genuinely baffles me how a person can be this evil like it makes no sense to me. Absolutely none. Im anxious im angry im depressed and i hate that i have no way out and no way to help this world i really do love.

[hesitationss]

in canada they suggest killing yourself through MAID if you're disabled + they don't take disabled immigrants btw (most countries don't, that includes mental illness and developmental like adhd and autism FYI). asylum seeking is different, but in that case you would be a second class citizen.

[nicomrade]

twitter put me in death game timeout for today do yall wanna decide what i watch tomorrow

[gwyoi]

“No such thing as hate crimes against SEA in those countries” 🤣 I actually have to laugh I’m sorry like get a grip

[eclipseandshadow]

one of our readings for last week talked about how in some cases immigrants from third world countries are recruited/incentivized by first world countries in order to create a new source of exploited labour within that country to reinforce the hierarchy of racial/class systems and i haven't stopped thinking about it

[eaglesnick]

“Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.”  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Rishi Sunak invited the British people to judge his fitness to be Prime Minister on the outcome of five pledges. One of these pledges was to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel on small boats.

"...we will pass new laws to stop small boats, making sure that if you come to this country illegally, you are detained and swiftly removed." (Rishi Sunak: January 2023)

The people behind the small boats crossing, the people smuggling gangs, have been described by the Home Office as “heinous criminals and organised criminal networks.”

Defending her Rwanda Deportation Scheme to discourage illegal migrants, Suella Braverman, Home Secretary said:

“We want to ensure that people understand they shouldn’t make the journey in the first place because they will be removed if they do so. That will stop the people-smuggling gangs."

All very laudable Ms Braverman and definitely a vote winner for the Tory Party. Such tactics worked brilliantly during the Brexit campaign. We all remember the slogan “take back control of our borders”. It was powerful then and it is powerful now. Unfortunately, the slogan has turned out to be totally hollow, as hollow as Rishi Sunak's and Suella Braverman's pledge to limit migration. 

While all the headlines concerning migrants centre on illegal migration, overseas workers are pouring into Britain by the back door, many of them the victim of legalised people traffickers.

This is a headline from one week ago:

“Modern slavery helpline calls surge from care staff."  (BBC News: 22/10/23)

Unconscionable businesses have been recruiting staff from overseas to work in the care sector, with many of these workers being  charged thousands of pounds  for that privilege.

“The cost of sponsorship is a few hundred pounds, which is met by most care companies… a few unscrupulous employers and agents are charging workers as much as £25,000, adding interest and deducting the debt from their wages.” (BBC News: 22/10/23)

How this “legal” trafficking of migrants differs from that of the illegal Channel crossing traffickers is hard discern. In both cases migrants are being used to line the pockets of unscrupulous gangs. What is more, many of the legally sanctioned migrants that go on to look after our elderly and sick relatives are totally untrained.

According to the National Care Association, over 60,000 overseas workers have been recruited in the past year, leading to many untrained staff being sent to care for our  old, sick, and vulnerable citizens. What is more, many of these migrants are being forced to work excessive hours as well as having to pay massive recruitment fees.

Unison found that migrant workers were required to be on permanent call, had to work 19-hour shifts without a break, and had wages withheld. (Guardian: 10/07/230

The government response to this shameful situation was to say that those operating illegally “COULD” face prosecution.

Not WILL face prosecution but COULD face prosecution. So while my and your vulnerable relatives are being “cared" for by an exploited, modern-day slavery workforce, many without the skills to do so, the government will consider whether to prosecute those responsible or not.

Meanwhile, the people traffickers organising the illegal Channel crossing continue to be castigated as “heinous criminals” and “organised criminal networks” which Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman have "vowed" to stop.

Such a shame they don’t apply the same moral outrage and indignation when it comes to the businesses exploiting migrants working in our care sector.

I know what my judgement is on Rishi Sunak's fitness to be Prime Minister.

[fungaldeity]

well in fairness, the bird flu epizootic/epidemic that has caused (among other things) an increase in the price of eggs was entirely brought on by the complete mismanagement of its early stages on the part of multiple state and federal agencies. at no point did the biden admin step in and enact strict disease control measures on the dairy/poultry industry until it was too late. i don’t think trump is necessarily going to do a better job of handling bird flu but biden was the one who let it get as bad as it did

"bUT mY eGGs and CHeeSe"

you poor sorry sons of bitches. honestly you were played like fools if you ever truly believed the rich give a flying fuck about you and your grocery bills.

[written-nature]

Humans followed Homo erectus in learning how to exploit aquatic resources, and migrants hugged the shores of the Indian Ocean, traversing the unbroken mangrove highway along the coastal lowlands.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[munaeem]

The Dark Side of the Journey: Smuggling Routes from Pakistan to Europe

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