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MISTER SIX!

https://youtu.be/EbXSbP-wEFU

Not so much anymore, but man, back in the Blackberry days they were NOTORIOUS!

So, a couple of things... Yes, their fault for being Trump supporters...

But also... She's 45, she came here when she was 10. She's had THIRTY-FIVE YEARS to become a US Citizen.

It does take an insane amount of time to work through the citizenship process, but it doesn't take 35 damn years. Especially not after marrying a US citizen.

Source: Friend of mine did it based on refugee status from Lebanon. My daughter-in-law did it on a student basis from Burma after marrying our son.

I mean, isn't that kind of how migrant workers have always operated? 🤔

Good PDF here:

https://pvarts.org/dev/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Yaya-Timeline-of-Agricultural-Labor-USA.pdf

I'm going to snip out some choice bits I personally found interesting, but the whole thing is worth a read:

"1860s-1930s: Farming became a large-scale industry.

The U.S. began importing Asian labor as African Americans moved into other industries and as the need for labor increased.

By 1886, 7 out of every 8 farm workers were Chinese. Japanese and Filipino workers were also brought into the country.

1882: The Chinese Exclusion Act banned the employment of Chinese workers. It was the first major attempt to restrict the flow of workers coming to the U.S.

1914-1918: During World War I, migration to the U.S. from Europe declined, increasing the demand for Mexican labor to fill the void.

During this period, growers lobbied to create the first guest worker program, allowing more than 70,000 Mexican workers into the U.S. The program ended in 1921.

Based on this history, we can argue that in modern times not much has changed: farm workers continue to be some of the most exploited workers in the U.S.

This broken immigration system fails to recognize the people who work hard to put food on grocery store shelves, restaurants, and dinner tables across the country.

Instead, they are marginalized and face abuse, detention, and deportation."

I'd also say this... the first home I remember was on a farm just outside city limits. Next door to a saw mill and across the street from railroad tracks. Yes, yes, I have slept through an earthquake. ;)

For the kids in that area at that time, the summer job was "berry picking". It is the most tedious, hot, sweaty, back breaking, mind-numbing, finger aching work any human being can ask another human being to do.

The idea that we treat those workers any less than any other worker should be criminal.

Not surprising they failed to break the blockade, it IS surprising they didn't even make it 1/2 way through Libya. I mean, if they made it to Egypt and couldn't crack the Gazan border, that would be one thing, at least they could say "an attempt was made!" But to not even make it TO Egypt?

That's a giant fail.

It's good that social security benefits are no longer taxable, but what's being cut to make up for that lost tax revenue? 🤔 Nobody is asking that question.

We HAD plans, but then a close friend of my mothers passed away and that put a giant damper on things. :(

Emphysema sucks kids, don't smoke!

They're out blowing shit up and drinking heavily, they had a GREAT 4th. 😢

I mean, that's BEEN his argument all along, this just codifies it... It's not like the Justice Department or the Courts ever told him differently.

Because you continue pushing Israeli lies about the genocide. You are now banned as well.

Holy shit, I missed that. That's a tectonic change if the Supreme Court can actually be bothered to recognize it.

Yeah, the Afghani government, or I should say "government" folded up so fast it's hard to remember the timeline. It may be we made the promise to the non-Taliban government which had the half-life of francium. (Yes, I looked that up.)

Federal torts and also "qualified immunity".

https://innocenceproject.org/news/what-you-need-to-know-about-qualified-immunity-and-how-it-shields-those-responsible-for-wrongful-convictions/

In before "YoU CaN'T SuE ThE GoVeRnMeNt" /s

Hey @Davriellelouna@lemmy.world Looks like you're posting a bunch.

Please note sidebar rule 7:

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