The recent vote in Ohio is just one of a string of cases where voters show they mostly support abortion access to some extent (1). Polls show the same. (2) So why do Republicans (specifically Republican politicians, not necessarily Republican voters) keep trying to do something unpopular?
My (perhaps cynical) view of Republican politicians is that they’re the “do anything to win” party. They would take any stance and pull any trick if it would give them a better chance of winning. So why are they so stuck on a losing issue?
If that’s the case, the conspirators are incredibly stupid.
It’s way easier to get cheap labor by simply loosening immigration laws.
You could argue that’s precisely why Republicans did fuck all to “fix” the “border crisis” they incessantly bang on about, when they were in power. Every time they were in power. Plus by doing nothing, they get to dehumanise migrants and use them as a weapon to terrify idiots into continuing to vote against their own interests.
Any time the actually do enact policies that work to limit undocumented workers they find that the corporate class gets pissed off; they like having people they can threaten and treat as actual slaves. They know damn well what works to curb unauthorized immigration - holding employers who hire the migrants accountable.
That cuts into their big money donors bottom line in two ways, 1. they have to hire workers who have at least a very basic understanding of their rights and demand wages actually in line with market value 2. They have to pay fines and deal with the public backlash for being criminals (not exactly the worst thing in their minds if we’re being honest cause their folks blissfully ignore things like criminal conspiracy or ethics provided their own the same team) but worse, they have to deal with the ‘unpatriotic’ label which tends to go further with the people who rabidly support the ‘solution’ to the issue they ignorantly latch onto as a means to continuously feed their rage addiction.
But that cheap labor would be “the wrong color.”
I mean many on the right truly want a homogeneous race of citizens. That’s not mutually exclusive with cheap, undereducated labor.
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Legal immigrants have rights and must be paid legal wages. Illegal immigrants will work for less, have no rights and won’t sue you.