We experienced this on a small scale in Alabama after a 2011 law HB 56 was enacted. I live in a fairly diverse suburb where we have many Middle Eastern, Indian, Hispanic, and black citizens amongst the other 50% of us who happened to be born with white skin and of European descent. There are some articles here on The Bulwark from earlier this year about AL having already done an (disgusting, cruel) experiment on this. I remember my son's Hispanic classmates just stopped going to school. This particular law was aimed mostly at the Hispanic community, though at least one wealthy German (we have a Mercedes plant here) got caught up in it. I don't recall any raids, the kids just didn't come to school anymore. In this case, many families went to Georgia and other states nearby since it was only happening in Alabama at the time. I remember local news reports of produce rotting on the vine because the workers just left to other states. I work in ornamental horticulture and at the time worked for a fairly large company. The migrant workers were put into the installation crews trucks and hidden under plant tarps going back to the shop. They would come into a gated, wooden fenced yard before they would come out of the trucks. In a few months time HB 56 was struck down in various federal courts and slowly the migrant workers returned. This time they can't just drive an hour and a half into Georgia to live and work, though. I am sick to my stomach about what we might see happening soon. Hell, what we are already seeing is horrifying.
I'm surprised they didn't learn from that but I guess White Nationalism is the driving force. In that day the Republican commercial interest groups like Ag and construction worked behind the scenes to put a stop to that and other anti immigrant elements of HB 56 legislation. There doesn't seem to be much push back yet from the industries highly dependent on immigrant labor
I agree completely. I personally know people who make their living selling migrant labor in the construction industry who can't seem to grasp that if what they voted for and are calling for happens, their hard working migrants could potentially be deported or be doomed to a much worse fate. It's a cult. That is the only answer I can come up with to square this. TACO is being sent by god to bring god back into schools and to make this country what the founding fathers intended it to be. White Christian Nationalist. They believe this. Maybe we need to buy them some Kool Aid. I kid, I kid. Really, I kid.
We experienced this on a small scale in Alabama after a 2011 law HB 56 was enacted. I live in a fairly diverse suburb where we have many Middle Eastern, Indian, Hispanic, and black citizens amongst the other 50% of us who happened to be born with white skin and of European descent. There are some articles here on The Bulwark from earlier this year about AL having already done an (disgusting, cruel) experiment on this. I remember my son's Hispanic classmates just stopped going to school. This particular law was aimed mostly at the Hispanic community, though at least one wealthy German (we have a Mercedes plant here) got caught up in it. I don't recall any raids, the kids just didn't come to school anymore. In this case, many families went to Georgia and other states nearby since it was only happening in Alabama at the time. I remember local news reports of produce rotting on the vine because the workers just left to other states. I work in ornamental horticulture and at the time worked for a fairly large company. The migrant workers were put into the installation crews trucks and hidden under plant tarps going back to the shop. They would come into a gated, wooden fenced yard before they would come out of the trucks. In a few months time HB 56 was struck down in various federal courts and slowly the migrant workers returned. This time they can't just drive an hour and a half into Georgia to live and work, though. I am sick to my stomach about what we might see happening soon. Hell, what we are already seeing is horrifying.
I'm surprised they didn't learn from that but I guess White Nationalism is the driving force. In that day the Republican commercial interest groups like Ag and construction worked behind the scenes to put a stop to that and other anti immigrant elements of HB 56 legislation. There doesn't seem to be much push back yet from the industries highly dependent on immigrant labor
I agree completely. I personally know people who make their living selling migrant labor in the construction industry who can't seem to grasp that if what they voted for and are calling for happens, their hard working migrants could potentially be deported or be doomed to a much worse fate. It's a cult. That is the only answer I can come up with to square this. TACO is being sent by god to bring god back into schools and to make this country what the founding fathers intended it to be. White Christian Nationalist. They believe this. Maybe we need to buy them some Kool Aid. I kid, I kid. Really, I kid.
MAGA is the kind of cult that puts people on trains at bayonet point, not the kind that makes its way to the main tent for the purple kool aid
That's fair.