[mslansn]

I can assure you “capital” is really happy with the dirt cheap labour that immigration brings. The destruction of the lower class is not their concern.

[lenerdenator]

They're even happier with AI labor because it doesn't require nearly the costs of human labor.

[collingreen]

For now! Vendor lock in for your workforce might end up biting folks with this approach when the bills start coming due and they enshittify

[dragonwriter]

Part of the reason capital likes anti-immigrant politics is that the end policy result isn't getting rid of unempowered labor, its reducing more people to unempowered labor for capital, rather it is via detention in public facilities that provide labor, directly or indirectly, for private efforts, detention in private facilities that can have work requirements, or "temporary passes" that give the employer control of status. [0]

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administr...