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The People Breaking Immigration Law Are Not Who You Think

More Perfect Union | October 16, 2025



Corporations are bringing in hundreds of thousands of foreign workers under the H-2A visa program.
Workers tell us it’s basically a human trafficking scheme — a way to replace farmworkers who unionize and fight for higher pay.
Trump could expand it with little oversight.
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  1. @a.k.1971

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    So why aren't you talking about the elephant in the room? Why wasn't the fact that most of the money that they make gets sent back to Mexico? Anyway, a lot of them don't want permanent residency. They just want the paychecks as compared to what they would be getting down there. I don't agree with slave labor and I agree with giving American jobs first. I don't agree with having all these immigrants come up here and work and leave with all the revenue

  2. @1Conservative1234

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    I don’t approve of any illegals in America. Coming here illegally can lead to being taken advantage of by bad people. OBTW – as a child (I am white) I slept on the floor – why – too many brothers and sisters. Life can be hard.

  3. @Hallettjs7957

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    No matter how one spins it, these people still broke the law. I have no issues with legal immigration or visa programs to an extent, but we have cuddled up too long with modern slavery and it needs to end.

  7. @juliekeeney1

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    We have a serious corporate corruption problem. If they were to be just a tiny bit more concerned for the humans that make the corporate machine run, we would not be here, but they might as well be trying to kill the humans that they make products for. They need to be restructured and punished, really punished. Not a slap on the wrist. They need to suffer like the people they hurt.

  9. @CONSCIOUSCOMA

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Until they figure out how to pay a livable wage for Americans to pick fruit and veggies and still make a profit this will not change. same go's for the construction industry. if an employer only has to pay $5 per hour they will never pay$15 per hour witch still does not cut the mustard. FIX THE REALPROBLEM ,THE SYSTEM AND THE GREED.

  10. @warriorlink8612

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    It's not just farming. It's construction too. The jobs should go to Americans first. And if locals or foreigners work, they need to be given fair pay, safety protection and overtime pay. What America has been doing for a long time is equivalent to slavery. Most citizens who benefit will turn a blind eye to this.

  12. @Megalithovorae

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Okay…. When Europeans went through Ellis Island to get to America; if they did not speak English they could essentially be put into slavery. Building a railroad track and some such. That's how it worked then. Immigrants benefit this economy, greatly. So it's much more complicated than just 'they don't belong here'.

  16. @omegaman4153

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    CBS Reports "Harvest of Shame" should have been the alert as to how the industry worked and still works.

    All of the concerns of today could have been avoided if such concerns were in place decades ago.

  17. @ebonyb6603

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    But yall are willingly signing up for this. If it’s slavery then why are yall coming to the USA to do those jobs ? My ancestors that were actual slaves didn’t apply and come because they “wanted to”. I mean the hell ?

  18. @LanceThumel

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    If it's the right that's wanting this why is it the left is literally starting a war to force them to stay here and why was it Biden who opened the border and literally invited illegal immigrants to America and released them into the country with a court date Biden administration trafficking 350000 children given to unvetted sponsors sometimes receiving 100 children to one sponsor
    President Trump's administration is locating them during immigration raids
    So I think you are attempting to put this on the Republicans as part of Democrats plan on overthrowing the Government and installing a communist regime because they have realized that they will never be elected to power again because President Trump's ascension to a second term has resulted with receipts proving the corruption of the Democrats including former President Obama they are currently trying to prevent the individuals who took part in the treasonous co conspiracy from being prosecuted calling it political prosecution without acknowledging that pointing out that Democrats spent 5 years attempting to and successfully prosecuted President Trump and portions of his administration but claim that it's not political even though James and Bragg ran their campaigns as putting President Trump in prison they even had retroactively change laws temporarily because it was meant only to prosecute Trump

  19. @lorenzobattista2530

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Stevens Transport needs to be investigated. Trucking is another industry getting away with enslaving Americans, endentured servitude, charging drivers their costs, et cetera. Stevens is one of the worst perpetrators.

  21. @guerradan1958

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    It’s like indenture servitude where the ppl are kept under contract and their lives are controlled by the farmer. What a great deal for the farmers! Another beautiful hood that that those farmers are saying how they are getting screwed by this administration so they find a loophole where they can take advantage of the system and cry how they are hurting and losing their farms.

  30. @Tonio0504

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    THIS is why Black farmers don’t received subsidies and assistance to grow and sustain like white farmers, because they would never allow such treatment of other humans. It’s all making more sense.

  31. @Tonio0504

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Both republicans and democrats have capitulated for decades post slavery to continue agricultural slave-adjacent work to make the rich richer and or keep the lazy racist’s pockets fat.

  32. @09kittykatz09

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Excuse me, but all farmers are a type of slave (servants) to society!!!
    The return does not match what they expend!
    One element of society who SHOULD be servant is the government….but they pay themselves!

  33. @hideem1

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    This is so stupid. I’m sure these employees have it super easy to pack up and leave so they can turn around and come back. THIS IS SO STUPID & WASTEFUL!

  34. @hideem1

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    It is insane that we are brutalizing people who came here for a better life, but we allow employers to get away with hiring them, recruiting them & treating people like this! Until the employers are punished, we will not solve this problem.

  37. @FluoxetinaBelcher

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    When confessed that he wanted to take his life… it sliced right through you. I've been there. Shit it seems I'm constantly loitering around it every time I wake up to yet another injustice being committed towards the innocent, hardworking citizens of this nation. We are living our history books. Look what the colonizers are doing to the indegenous of the "americas!!!!!! Indegenous people are still here and they can't stand it. WE MUST END THE EMPIRE, MAKE THIS LAND NATIVE AGAIN!!!

  42. @bonnaewaldron2727

    October 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    When they hear these people speaking Spanish getting abused it makes them happy they don’t care. They see these people as the other they see them as the enemy and they want to hurt them and use them as slaves and that’s all there is to it and I’ve been saying it since the beginning of people thought I was nuts you’re crazy they’re not trying to bring back slavery bullshit they aren’t yes they are and they’re trying to hurt anybody that doesn’t speak English too

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