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Used to it was really easy for farm workers to migrate back forth across the southern boarder of the US. Reagan changed the rules so that it was harder for Mexicans workers to go back and forth to Mexico. This is because they wanted to be able to exploit their labor year round and by criminalizing immigration they allowed workers to be locked up for further exploitation with even less pay because slavery is legal in prison
It's quite interesting that even 160 years after slavery became illegal in the US, it's still practised and now supports the prison industrial complex. Populated primarily with people who wouldve been slaves pre-civil war. Convenient. Racism is alive and well.
US continues its slavery problem just in a different way. Sick bastards.
It's wild the way that American workers are still plagued by the legacy of slavery. Healthcare being tied to employment, our inability to protest without losing our jobs, at will employment. Nearly every disparity between other first world nation workers and american workers are caused by the legacy of slavery