White conservatives, and really all conservatives, have this fantasy where “real Americans” will get “their jobs” back once the immigrants are kicked out. They never discuss who will pick and kill their food. I don’t know if it’s because they believe some sweet, old white man is strolling down his family farm and picking oranges and sending them to the store; or they want prisoners and other lower tier whites to do the work (and that’s based and America first pilled); or they simply do not think beyond rhetoric and only think about food when they’re in the store buying it.

Or they completely ignore the food industry and imagine that migrants are taking “real” jobs like engineering and software development and managerial roles. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the case because I know many conservatives who genuinely think that democrats are paying migrants $2000 a month to cross the border and live in the US

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m Mexican, but was born in the us. I’ve done the work these people typically do for most of my life so far and all I can really do is laugh when anyone suggests getting rid of us. The rhetoric has gotten pretty bad recently but I can’t really imagine deporting easily the hardest working portion of the workforce and thinking whites are gonna step on up and fill the void, It’s not gonna happen. Obviously if you want to go ahead, shovels are right there, but that hasn’t been my experience really.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The conservative fantasy of a farm life is some porn advertisement of a big titted wife wearing a dress in the forest and she grows tomatoes and takes care of the children