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Attilatheblond

(2,277 posts) Wed Mar 20, 2024, 12:40 PM Mar 20

Would there be so many border crossers if there wasn't a 'market' for them on the US side? [View all]

This recruitment/hiring of US teens (sometimes as young as 12) to pick up border crossers and deliver them to points north has been going on for a while now. The money offered makes the young people figure it's worth the risk. They are too often involved in high speed chases though US border cities here on the US side of the line. There have been many accidents, many serious injuries, and some deaths.

Some of the latest examples here. But this is a near-daily occurrence here in the borderlands.
[link:https://www.12news.com/article/news/regional/the-border/3-arizona-teens-recently-arrested-separate-instances-human-smuggling/75-5684b107-8618-4684-9f79-8e4238621d57|

It is WAY past time to stop this and it will take busting illegal EMPLOYERS who profit from cheap, easily exploited and abused undocumented workers.

It's not asylum seekers who are 'illegal'. It is the profit driven US business owners who are dangling carrots to desperate refugees and under aged US citizens who a dazzled by the promise of big paydays per load.

If illegal employers were more likely to be facing prison, THAT might just slow the flow.

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Would there be so many border crossers if there wasn't a 'market' for them on the US side? [View all] Attilatheblond Mar 20 OP

It would solve the issue at a single stroke. But it'll never happen. Scrivener7 Mar 20 #1

That would be great if the penalties against the employers were enforced MichMan Mar 20 #2

Step one. Give anyone who's been working here a green card. hunter Mar 20 #4

Exploit, abuse, under pay, sexually abuse...YES! That is why many US employers LOVE undocumented workers Attilatheblond Mar 20 #13

You left out a part of that sentence. OldBaldy1701E Mar 20 #17

I saw a documentary years ago about recruiting at the border underpants Mar 20 #3

The worst part of this situation... Caliman73 Mar 20 #7

Undocumented workers wouldn't even think of unionizing either underpants Mar 20 #10

They can't really unionize Caliman73 Mar 20 #11

Yep. underpants Mar 20 #12

That is insane! Caliman73 Mar 20 #21

and damned few of them break laws because they want to stay here to live and work Attilatheblond Mar 20 #14

Find 3-5% of Social Security too underpants Mar 20 #20

An ITN is for tax purposes only and does not have anything to do with paying into SS MichMan Mar 20 #30

That's it in a nutshell. My (now deceased) FIL ranted about "illegals" Coventina Mar 20 #5

And that's a big flaw with the conservative arguments about immigration. SouthBayDem Mar 20 #6

Not only is it US citizens creating the demand for illegal drugs Attilatheblond Mar 20 #15

Wow, I just had this conversation with my insurance man RSherman Mar 20 #8

Excellent work taking a stand against the propaganda & lies too many fall for! Thank you. Attilatheblond Mar 20 #16

Totally agree! RSherman Mar 20 #19

Seems like they spout off because they want to be validated. Attilatheblond Mar 20 #22

Thanks so much! RSherman Mar 20 #24

There you go bringing in facts beyond the R scare tactics senseandsensibility Mar 20 #9

Yeah, and here in the Border lands, I am one mouthy bitch, working to help elect DEMS locally, Attilatheblond Mar 20 #18

Note immigration wasnt a problem when Trump Johonny Mar 20 #23

Well, it was an issue down here in the Borderlands. Local MAGAs found much to scream about Attilatheblond Mar 20 #25

It was democrats who blocked the mandatory use of e-Verify ripcord Mar 20 #26

Agree that it would stop most migrants and force some to leave, but they are still poor Silent Type Mar 20 #27

Probably. Act_of_Reparation Mar 20 #28

I remember they were Romney's lawn MOMFUDSKI Mar 20 #29

self delete mike_c Mar 20 #31

so many of these people dont even realize they cant enter the US samnsara Mar 22 #32