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How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age:
The winter after Donald Trump was elected president, strangers began appearing in a parking lot on southern Washington State's Long Beach Peninsula, at the port where the oyster boats come and go. Rather than gaze at the bay or the boats or the building-size piles of bleached shells, two men — one thinner, one thicker — stared at the shellfish workers. The strangers sat in their vehicle and watched the workers arrive in their trucks. They watched the workers grab their gear and walk to the docks. The workers watched them watching, too, and they soon began to realize that the men were from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When the workers made eye contact, the officers nodded politely, but they said very little. For weeks, they just watched. Then the workers began to vanish.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 08 2019, @10:58PM (1 child)
They don't teach reading comprehension in school anymore? "The oyster farms need workers. The hotels are hiring."
(Score: 2) by number11 on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:21PM
If they raise the pay enough, citizens will take the jobs. If citizens don't take the jobs, then they haven't raised the pay enough. Double the wages and add good fringe benefits, what's the problem? I don't know what shellfish workers get paid, but apparently the greedy bosses aren't paying enough. Yay! Better wages (and higher prices) for all! Sure it will raise the price of oysters, but if it gets too high, we'll buy oysters from China instead.