More than 130 arrested in immigration raids in Minnesota, Nebraska

What sectors and what industries? The textile industry employs a fuck ton of people and the majority of them are working for slave wages. That’s how people can afford to just throw out a shirt or pants when they get a hole or a cut because it’s cheaper when accounted for the time.

Not everyone has the ability to become technicians and engineers. What happens when streamlining and automation takes the low skill jobs away? Not everyone working these low skilled jobs have the ability to learn higher skills and trades that won’t be wiped out by automation.

The reason why everything is made in China is because the human rights laws there are non existent and people don’t get paid a living wage. Kicking out refugees and illegal immigrants won’t solve the systemic issue of a consumerist and throwaway society.

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