Trump's Border Enforcement Will Finally Ban SLAVE LABOR In America

Chris reveals how illegal immigration fuels a system of cheap, exploitive labor on American farms. Drawing on his experiences in Florida—watching migrant workers on overloaded buses and hearing of farmers forced to pay as little as $100 a day—he exposes how this exploitation benefits agribusiness while undermining fair labor practices. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Illegal immigration. You know what it does, It's slave labor.
One of the things that really distressed me. Distressed me,
this is years and years ago, is when I first
moved to Florida. The first time I lived in Florida
was watching and seeing these awful old school buses packed

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with migrant workers bringing them out to various different farms
in the middle of the state. Sometimes you would drive
through the middle of the state of Florida, you have
to go across the state for a lacrosse tournament. Something
was backed up, and you drive through some of these
sugar plantations out there, and you see the conditions. My

(00:57):
church back when I lived little bit further south through
Mayor every every Sunday, every Sunday was collections clothes, baby formula,
food to give to all of these migrant workers. And
it pissed me off. Pissed me off because it's it's
freaking slave labor. Why do you why do you think,

(01:21):
what do you think? We Democrats and Republicans for the
most part, have not given a damn about illegal immigration,
have no problem with it. Raw cheap workers, cheap labor.
Oh yeah, all Wall Street Journal has always been for
US Chamber of Commerce. Yes, all of that. Sure, it's great,

(01:42):
it's wonderful. Really now it's disgusting, quite funny. People should
be ashamed of yourself. You know what's happening right now in
the state of Florida. There's a massive battle taking place
in the state of Florida between Ron DeSantis, the most
effective governor I have ever seen in my entire life,
bar none. He made He turned this state from a

(02:06):
purple state to an uber red state. And he's getting
He's battling right now with the legislature in Florida because
the legislature in Florida they want to water down the
immigration rules here. Why well, their contractor friends want all

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of their cheap workers, they want all of their cheap roofers.
There is a story, this was on CBS yesterday, CBS yesterday.
They are interviewing an American farmer, an American farmer, and
oh no, this is like a woe is Me story?

(02:50):
This is like a woe is me so art? This
American farmer he's got his his sweet potato crop, five
hundred thousand dollars sweet potato crop. And hey, oh my god,
he doesn't have the workers he needs twenty. He needs
twenty pickers. He's only got five out there. He's got
two one hundred acres, only five showed up. And he's

(03:12):
got a possible loss of a half a million dollars
sweet potatoes. Oh what was him? And he admits workers
are illegal and they go when they put a microphone
and one of the illegal workers. Yeah, I've been doing

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this since nineteen ninety three, doing this since nineteen ninety three.
Now what she gets paid one hundred dollars a day,
ten to twelve hours of work, ten to twelve dollars

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of work, hours of work a day, maybe one break
one hundred dollars today. Not like you're getting any benefits,
not like you're getting any healthcare to go along with it.
And I'm supposed to feel sorry for this farmer. Freaking mind, hey,

(04:15):
freaking mind. American farmers a freaking protected class for crying
out loud. Yeah, I know, I know. Neil Young likes
now hold his farm, aide concerts, and always woe is this?
And they like their subsidies, and I like to grow
their corn and make it go into cars and all
those other bull crap paying workers for crying out loud,

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pay him. This is why we need to have immigration reform.
All of you leftists that are jumping up and down
about all of these a league, Oh this is terrible.
All this stuff you like slaves Labor's okay with you,
It's not okay with me. The rules are Yes, he
could get he could this farmer if he wanted to,

(04:58):
could get the visas, could get the visas to bring
these workers in to work his farm. But that's gonna
cost him more money. That's gonna cost him more money. Oh,
he most certainly can be done. They don't want to
do it. They'd rather pay them. They'd rather pay them

(05:19):
this ridiculously low wages. That's bullshit, man, quite frankly, and
I'm tired of this nonsense. But this happens all over
the country. Oh woe is me? Oh who's gonna pick
the crops? Yeah, these people can crypt pick the crops,
but pay them a prevailing wage for crying out loud.

(05:39):
They're taking advantage of the situation because they know that
they're illegal, and quite frankly, that's bullshit. It's wrong. Watch
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