I personally know a hard-working family who is self-deporting to stay safe from the Trump regime. Their family business is construction. It’s going to be harder and harder to find labor which is why they are defunding public schools and rolling back child labor laws.
Many roofing crews, especially in the south, are staffed by Mexicans (both documented and not), who don't mind the heat. No more Mexicans, good luck getting a new roof.
And nobody's going to work those slave wage jobs if there's even a wage to begin with
White supremacy is at the core of everything Republicans do. They are so cruel, they see this as a win.
It's bad news. America is going back to 1899 and will have an 1899 economy by 2028.
Housing prices to infinity and beyond!📈
Let’s get those six year olds back in factories!
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It’s all intentional. The fake Administration working for Russia needs to be removed.
All democratic countries should open their immigration doors for professional and skilled labor from the U.S.
That's a fact. Our children are going to be locked into dead end futures.
Turning us into a third world country ffs
A new generation of Robber barrons.
I don't understand the kind of parent that would allow that. I felt like an ogre making them get a part time job at 16
I think those concentration camps are going to become free labor camps. Perhaps the immigrants will be offered to work for free in order not to be deported??
Don't count on it.
And why they want to crash the economy- so people will be "happy" to take shit jobs for shit pay because there won't be much else.
yep, The REPUBLICANS hate democracy, as it limits total profitability, and they are LAWLESS, they are CRUEL, and they ENJOY IT.
They want to create a labor class which don't know that it was ever any other way. Which is stupid because they are all too old to see life go back to their dreams of living Gone With the Wind core lifestyles.
And trying to force ICE detainees to work agriculture jobs...
They also want “wellness farms” for folks who ought to be in treatment
It's what the coal companies did in WV and elsewhere: crummy educations left kids with few alternatives to lousy futures, so off to the coal mines they went.
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AAAAAND medical care and researchers who make beneficial scientific discoveries. My doctor has considered leaving. These backassward bastards won’t be happy until they break all the things. ‘Dumb’ is killing US.
I have always assumed that when things get bad enough the business interests I assume pull the Washington levers will put a stop to the madness. Where are they?
They’re joining the oligarchy.
They are the oligarchy.
I live in a town that is a tourist destination, blue MA. The charming street w/the ice cream shop and 4 good restaurants just had 3 close right at height of the August vacation period. Labor shortage. Translation: no more kitchen help, immigrants who work/pay taxes no longer want to show up.
Just like Trump's 1st term he'll destroy as much as possible. He's using a wrecking ball to our entire nation.
No brown people and no rights for anyone that isn’t white or male. That’s their end game. Men in power, while everyone else is subservient to their “needs”.
Fuck the patriarchy
Co-sign
NOT GOING BACK.
If I had a family, I would be doing the same. Our culture has pushed the idea that money buys happiness to the breaking point, but hopefully Americans will wake up to the fact that money isn't the thing to chase in life. For many it's time to go, but their material shackles keep them here.
My wonderful neighbors - documented (he was a researcher at a university, she had a baking business) - chose to return to their home country w/ their 2 kids b/c of federal funding cuts & for fear of what’s to come. I’ll never forget him saying they’ll come back “when democracy returns to America.”
Heartbreaking 😥 Literally.
Will all European immigrants be returning to their countries of origin too? Because in truth they've ALL been occupying land that doesn't belong to them. This land is Native Tribal Lands. It belongs to the FIRST PEOPLE who've always lived on this land. European immigrants need to home.
Yeah, we have neighbors who are sharing a tutor to give their US born children intensive language classes so they can go back. It’s heartbreaking. We were built on bringing in the best and brightest.
I know 2 families with dual citizenship with concrete plans to move to their second country in the next year or 2. A third bought property in their second country “just in case”.
Who’d wanna stay in #Trump’s AmeriKKKa anyway? 🙋♂️
Wait until those Magats need a roof or a vegetable, or janitorial services or any other work done that they won't do! And them folks will be the first to bitch about it! Let them go to church and prey on more little kids and be protected by their Orange shitbag who permits it! They'll get pardons!
It is intentional as the children of people who are creating the chaos and destruction are unlikely to directly feel the consequences. www.history.com/articles/chi...
😳 nothing like facism ! Nothing bonds people better than hate. The entire world hates the U.S. including Russia. Putin is playing the 🍊💩 like a fiddle, will the 💩 robs the U.S. of its democracy, money & respect!
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OMG, rolling back child labor laws? Bless you for fighting for educational fairness and equality, women's and children's rights in MO! I had a good friend from Sedalia who was helping to elect C. McCaskle. She was English.
As an advocate for public schools, I just don't get it. Defunding schools isn't going to give us more 'cheap labor'. A part of MANY a public school is "vo-tech", as we called it back in the day. The one my HS is assoc. w/ TEACHES CONSTRUCTION and WELDING and AUTOSHOP. Defund schools? Really??
Yes, slave labour that works and learns on the job the specific skills need from about 13 - 14 years upwards, you are returning to about 1900`s thinking as a nation
Before schools, poor kids went to work. Child labor was massive and was used in most industries and factories.
Indeed! While I totally advocate that 'on the job training' is good in construction, I heartily object to that applying to 10-13 year old's. History should teach us that education is the key to everyone's success, even as a nation. But they are re-writing history as we speak. I need more tea.
My son is a junior in high school and is taking plumbing classes half the day at a neighboring school district that has a huge vocational program, at their public school. My maga ex STILL whines about public school being bad & "we need trade schools"... umm... look around? 😡🙄
If you’re dumb, you’re malleable. Get it? Smart/capable people observe, question, push back and intimidate the ‘mediocres’, like the felon and his flying monkeys that we’re paying to destroy US. Merit, amirite? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #MarchOfTheMediocres
The oligarchs are cashing out the system and positioning themselves to pick up the pieces of a failed state. For reference see: American History 1492 - Present.
Yeah, my state is a few years retooling education to better support the trades as an option, but it won’t meet these unexpected needs. Maybe they will scale it up, but takes time and it’s hard to make any kind of commitment of resources when the country is operating by whim.
I used to cynically say that Republicans think the biggest threat facing our nation is that Maria down at the Mexican restaurant "doesn't have her papers". I guess it wasn't cynical after all.
And what laborer needs a college degree??? Except their rich white offspring of course.
Yes the Republicans will create more poverty with is like slavery. cbwrong.blogspot.com?m=1
We are returning to an amalgamation of Feudalism & Robber Barons (but with crypto & AI stealing our resources, especially water and electricity).
It’s an intentional and coordinated attack on freedom.
This is not the land of the free
And it never was…for anyone.
Freedoms are said with a silent "white"!
For the wealthy, it is n always will be
For Men only.
Some women get by. Especially the trophies
Even when they are old, grey and out of child bearing age?
We will blow ourselves up rather than allow others to attain and share our lofty station in life. Smh. "Four score and seventy years ago... "everyone should read this timeless document. Again. Again. And know the word "men" today includes all races, all creeds, all genders, all ages, all people.
More should!!! Uganda prison camp is the next country on the shipping list of human goods.
I’m sorry about your friends. The Blabbermouth thinks our grandkids should pick fruit bcuz Trump is so damn stupid we have fruit rotting in CA fields. RIGHT NOW! It’s 100% Trump’s fault. 100%.
Those are blue fields to them and they are OK with that.
Sadly, I know you’re right. Trump’s agenda is to utterly destroy blue states. I live in CA, It’s scary as hell.
Trump doesn’t eat fruit, so why would he care? The cost can skyrocket for the rest of us though
LESS farm production = less food for sale
Exactly. People can’t see it - but the plan is to make us so poor we will work in the fields for $ 5 a day and allow our kids to work rather than attend school. People need to wake TF up.
Are you going to agree to do that?
Agree to fight? Yes! Not for me but my grandchildren
They worry about the birth rate now but who’s going to have children if they know education is unfunded and field work will be the only option for their offspring.
They're planning to take the chldren that are trans, gay, homeless, adhd, depressed, anxious, etc. and put them to work on "wellness farms" for "reparenting."
Oh! this that what the brain addled brainworm 'former' heroin addict has decided? Well by all means we should listen to him ..he looks so 'healthy' himself doesn't he 😏
Putin is doing ‘retraining’ with the 20,000 children he has stolen. RFK Jr’s plans are the same.
I forgot the mention, they are Ukrainian children Putin has stolen.
This guy needs to sit down and never speak for 3 years.
These disgusting #Republican #Trump bootlicking fascists will just arrest people and send them to their for profit private prisons and make them slaves. It’s what is happening right now and it will be expanded. This government must fall.
Good for them. I wish that things can be different but they have to put their safety first.
Serfs and lords seems to be the plan. Keep “them” uneducated and poor for easier control.
My nephew's roofing crew from Ecuador were legally in NY working and they were all scooped up and disappeared. One left behind a 16 year old daughter.
I personally know of people who have requested asylum in other countries due to "persecution." This would not be an exaggeration for people of certain races & backgrounds. If you can be fired from your job, literally, for being who you are, then staying here is not a viable option!
Took a screen shot of this advert for a van. That last line in the description kills me.
damage immeasurable
Agree
Good points
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America sucks more and more every friggin day! I’m so sorry 😞😓 I would beg them to stay however they know best for their family.
It also (intentionally or unintentionally) raises the cost of home construction, which raises the cost of existing homes. More folks will be renting, not buying, making the rich richer and more in control. Making home ownership less available to lower/mid income people is one of their goals.
They have this mad fantasy that unemployed people from offices and retail will relocate and work on farms.
That will NEVER HAPPEN.
Yes, too much friction. Mao tried it.
I am using a cement contractor who is Hawaiian instead of Hispanic. I hope ICE idiots don’t deport them!!!
ICE idiots probably think Hawaii is a foreign country.
Welcome to the “Whitening” of America!
HOW BORING THAT WILL BE.
FAFO
Your country will be run by vigilantes and corruption if you don’t stop him soon.
Honestly, I'd be afraid to self-deport. There is no assurance you won't be detained trying to leave. That seems like an act of bravery at this point. We are a horror show of a country. Violent, inhumane.
The labor MAGA seeks to create is poor uneducated Americans. Sadly, many of the same people who elected Trump because he told them he'd make their life better. These are the people who will once more become the mudsills of American society, working in fields, farms, and factories for low wages.
@piperformissouri.bsky.social Self-deporting. How utterly sad for families. Maine Wabanaki elder & veteran made that hard choice too. thecounty.me/2025/08/21/h...
W.E.B. Du Bois once said that "either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States". Recent events have proven which way the scale is tilted, it would seem...
This admin has been hyper obsessed with the age 14. I assume this is how they’ll justify pedophilia and eradicating child labor laws. It’s so, so bad.
Everyone on our block is getting new roofs , Usually one roof a day… well now only WHITE men are working on roofs in my part of Missouri , my neighbor is now on day 5 of getting his finished ! America was built by immigrants!! White men would have never left the cave!🤢
A few years ago a team of immigrants did ours in a day and a half.
So lucky for us we finished a small renovation last year. I’d still be staring at paint colors if we hadn’t. This base of our economy has always been immigrants. He’s such a moron.
I still have Mexican workers in my neighborhood. Roofing, landscaping and a new pool.. I'm located in Florida within the dominant white city of MAGAts. We know they're targeting mostly blue. But I see nothing.
Magas are Republicans. There's no differentiation. They're Republicans who've traded their white hoods for red hats disguised as supposed 'patriots'. They're one in the same. Time to call a spade a spade.
Love this!!!
I’m in Nixa Mo and restaurants in Springfield , are closing daily, only white men digging ditches and roofing in Nixa a month ago it was very different 😓
It is so sad and at the same time angering!!
No sh*t! Tell us something we don’t know. Illegal immigrants paid taxes and never collected SS. MAGAts are dumb as a pile of rocks.
Magas ARE REPUBLICANS. There's no daylight between the two. NOT ANYMORE. We need to say it out-loud. Magas ARE exactly what Republicans are and 'secretly' always have been. It's way past time to say it out-loud. THEY OWN THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR REPUBLIC.
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Are you willing to accept that as an American?
It's already hard enough to find contractors to work on your house. Imagine the combined effects of climate change and immigration raids on the housing market. Disaster.
It's ALWAYS about money isn't it. Not about quality of life. 'Markets'! Apparently too few are aware that 'markets' are primarily owned by the wealthiest 10% not the majority of Americans. Have you ever wondered who's PRIMARILY BENEFITING in the "richest country in the world"?
We live in SC & I have a rescue horse farm. I needed some help because my husband had been traveling. There is a wonderful man who does yard work but he wouldn't come to our house from NC because he was afraid. Breaks my heart.
It won't be hard for them. They are going to put everyone they don't like into concentration camps. Then, those people will be forced to earn their keep. Ironically, many of them will be working at the same farms they were earning a salary at, but this time for free.
Do you intend to allow that?
Of course not.
They primed people for that by saying fast food is a job for teenagers and teenagers shouldn't make the same wages. That's just excusing exploiting children. They are doing the work. They should make a fair wage for it
Who are the 'they' you're referring to specifically. It's important to say it out loud to ourselves and for others. The 'they' you're referring to aren't the majority of the American people. 'They' are the owner class who increasingly imagine they're entitled to EVERYTHING. THEY WANT IT ALL.
May every person who voted for this rot in Hell.
Slavery is always the oligarch's solution to labor costs. They keep bringing it back.
people need to remember that these moments and feelings will stay with people and families for generations. this is how a single administration can hamstring an entire nation for generations.
Yep, it's as if they are creating an economic situation where the children will have to work to help keep the family housed and fed.
I'm hearing from more and more American citizens who are seriously considering moving out of the country
Trump Regime did not think this out. In cities across the country, we are seeing neighborhoods with stores that are barely making it because POC are afraid to go to work, to go shopping, or send their children to school. Think of all lost GDP, tax and SS money, not to mention wonderful people.
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We could offer to buy the company. Black people/Black Panthers protected the homes of the Japanese when they were put in camps on US soil. Remember, we have a history of being displaced from our homes and business. We stood up when it happened to others. I hope their hard work isn't in vain.
A Hispanic neighbor who walked his dogs everyday has suddenly left. He has an older Chevy truck, gone. His grandmother’s car, gone. Not sure what happened. Oh and I’m a blue dot in a lake of red
Yup moving America backwards to about 1930 or earlier.
Public schools and child labour laws were not important in the 19th century which is where pedophile taco is dragging the US back to.
Please don't normalize the term "self-deporting". They fled the country. Deportation should be a process with legal safeguards. People who may well be here within the law, e.g. asylum applicants, are being driven out by illegal state brutality. Do not use the abusers' words.
Thank you.
I taught in a Florida public high school back in the 70s where the school year was once drastically truncated to meet a local agricultural emergency. They needed young teen age students to save their crop so the precedent is well established and still well within the memory of the oppressor class.
And prisoner slavery expanded.
Exactly