We have a migrant crisis because we have massive labor shortages

[Yavin4]

Migrants are coming here because there's work for them. Plenty of work in agriculture and meat packing especially. They're being lured here by employers.

Hatred of migrant workers is being used politically by the Republicans to win favor with White working class voters, but notice not a one of them are calling for criminal sanctions against employers who hire these migrants. Not a one.

I just want one journalist to ask a Republican if they want to criminally charge employers and sanction them for hiring migrants. Instead of pandering to the Republican base. Do your job as journalists and ask them this question.

This country runs on undocumented, migrant workers. Without them, our economy would collapse. There would literally not be any food on the shelves at the grocery store. The entire travel and leisure industry would collapse.

[WarGamer]

1. Why can't we have an organized guest worker program?

People work here... and go home?

Everyone benefits.

Get everyone legal... no more abusing bosses refusing to pay or threatening to call the authorities.

[Yavin4]

3. Because Republicans sold out to their racist base after the 2008 election.

No immigration reform is possible given the current Republican party.

[jimfields33]

7. Sorry but some minorities are pissed as well.

https://m.

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[Yavin4]

9. Wow. A Fox New clip posted on DU? Okay.

This is pure right wing psy ops. Republicans manipulate xenophobia and hate across multiple groups for votes. Yet, do nothing about the actual reason why undocumented migrants come here. They come here to work. They come here because there are tons of jobs available for them. They come here because employers don't want to pay minimum wage.

Employers are so desperate for labor that they're hiring children.

[jimfields33]

10. It not Fox News. It's a Chicago fox affiliate like the Simpson's

Nice try though.

[DURHAM D]

4. The US sucks at the administration of said programs.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-temporary-foreign-worker-visa-programs#:~:text=temporary%20worker%20programs%20were%20established%20amid,as%20an%20amendment%20to%20the%20INA.&text=temporary%20worker%20programs%20were,amendment%20to%20the%20INA.&text=programs%20were%20established%20amid,as%20an%20amendment%20to

[Ocelot II]

6. We had one once, called the Bracero Program.

It went into effect right after WWII and ended in 1964 - it was an agreement with the Mexican government that allowed Mexican men to work legally on farms under temporary contracts. But the working conditions were so terrible that it ended after years of protests by activists like Cesar Chavez. To try to deal with the labor shortage that resulted, the government tried to replace the workers with American high school boys. The working conditions were still terrible and the program failed.

"These [high school students] had the words and whiteness to say what they were feeling and could act out in a way that Mexican-Americans who had been living this way for decades simply didn't have the power or space for the American public to listen to them," she says. "The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/07/31/634442195/when-the-u-s-government-tried-to-replace-migrant-farmworkers-with-high-schoolers

[Ocelot II]

2. Good luck finding roofers, too.

Not to mention restaurant workers and hotel maids. You're right; the economy would collapse, and things would be much more expensive - a lot of immigrants get paid under the table, below minimum wage, and without benefits. If the GOP wants to stop immigration they should focus on the employers, but they won't because hiring undocumented immigrants who can be exploited is good for business.

[onethatcares]

5. could part of it be due to the oligarcies

in the southern countries?

Where the rich are rich and the poor live hand to mouth. Kinda like it's starting to go here

[dembotoz]

8. fastest way to get a gop death stare....when they complain about reduced hours

or stores and restaurants closed because they can not find workers...

remind them there are plenty of motivated workers just waiting south of the border and all you have to do is let them in....
there solved your problem....

they do not like that

[sarisataka]

11. Food for thought

Contrary to the many threads of "why would anyone want to come to the US" and those who would like to leave because it is so awful here, thousands do want to come here daily.

More than a few are from countries that people here would like to move to...

[Mysterian]

12. All they have to do to reduce illegal immigration 90 percent

is put employers who hire undocumented aliens in jail. Raid the slaughterhouses.

Funny how that never happens.

[Frasier Balzov]

13. Alas, it's really about guns from the USA flooding latin america.

These folks are fleeing for their lives.

Dishonorable mention: Maduro's mismanagement of national resources.

[Tickle]

14. Where do we have a labor shortage?

Migrants are coming here for a better life. Not sure they want to come here and pack meat but ok