The border crisis is rarely framed for what it truly is: a cynical economic trap. When COVID shattered the U.S. workforce, corporations faced a choice—raise wages to attract American workers, or find a cheaper alternative. They chose the latter.
This birthed «Slavery 2.0.» Desperate migrants fleeing collapsed economies were lured in to fill the void. Stripped of legal protections, they became the ultimate exploitable class—working grueling hours for sub-market pay, unable to unionize or report wage theft. Big business reaped massive profits from this modern-day indentured servitude.
But this corporate greed ignited a backlash. The American working class watched their blue-collar wages stagnate and their jobs displaced by an underclass that couldn’t say no. Their resulting anger and fear of a «job-taking crisis» are completely justified; they were sold out by the system.
Now comes the cruelest hypocrisy. The same economic machine that silently demanded and exploited these vulnerable people is discarding them. Bowing to political pressure from the angry working class, the government is mass-deporting the very workers the economy absorbed.
These migrants didn’t come to conquer; they came to survive a system that invited them in to be exploited. Now, used up by corporate America and targeted by the state, they face deportation instead of integration. It is a profoundly unjust cycle where elites profit, citizens rage, and the most vulnerable pay the ultimate price.
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