I can eat sushi, pizza, samosas, kebab (kabobs, döner or shawarmas depending on your frame of reference), gyoza/pot stickers/tortellone/pasteczki (or whatever), noodles/ramen/spaghetti, knödeln/kroppkakor and so on and so on. Leaving lots of cultures unsaid.

I can enjoy music, cringy cultural movies (animated and not), fun cirque sessions (even without animals being endangered), go to festivals for various cultures, enjoin then in our cultures of scouting, mountaineering, hiking and share my love of enjoying nature.

I can drive electric cars, communicate on Internet forums, keep in touch with new friends as well as loved ones across the world.

I would be in a much poorer world without you all.

  • yucandu@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    22 hours ago

    Lobby the government to stop doing that. In the meantime, teach them their rights, how to unionize, help them with food security and finding a place to live, so that they aren’t in such a precarious position that makes exploitation so profitable.

    • kerntucky@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      18 hours ago

      I think a very important step is to start holding businesses responsible for employing undocumented migrants and immigrants. Stop punishing the employees and punish the ones breaking the law by employing them. They’d lobby so hard to make the path to citizenship easier.

      • Katana314@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        6 hours ago

        We definitely see a gross incentive where companies don’t want people to become citizens because it allows their labor to be cheaper.

        I think back in Trump’s first term, he had one policy that I genuinely agreed with - that the H1B Visa program should have a very high minimum salary to it, returning it to its intended purpose of being used for rare, high-talent specialized positions. As it stands, HR will just invent overly specific criteria so that they can deny local citizens jobs, claim they can’t find anyone, and then hire cheap H1Bs - and threaten them with deportation anytime they complain.

        Needless to say, because it was a good idea and anti-corp, Trump dropped it almost immediately.

      • yucandu@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        18 hours ago

        Yeah but good luck holding a sign that says “Don’t shop here, they hire immigrants”.

        • kerntucky@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          17 hours ago

          That’s not my point. I’m saying that law enforcement is being targeted at the wrong people.