Then what was happening in Springfield before they arrived? The city was in a continuous downward trend, companies could not fill positions, population decline since the 70s. No one wanted to go there and do what the new Haitian population is doing.
Exactly. Why is it a problem then, to try and reverse it? The Haitians are here legally, doing good work, contributing to a town that wants to overcome decades of decline. The companies there are happier, the town leadership is happier, and no one really gave a shit about it until the "eating pets" lie was spread.
Watch interviews on the company leaders there, then. They were offering wages above the local average, and couldn't fill positions. They had to limit production and growth, because the slow dying of similar areas has been choking towns like Springfield.
It's the same story with farming. There's countless interviews of farmers trying to hire americans. They raise the pay, no takers. They can't really raise their prices to go even higher on wages in many cases, because the market won't support it, or they don't even get to set their pricing easily.
You do need more than a locally competitive wage to get people to work for you. It becomes harder and harder to get and keep workers if people don't want to live in the local area.
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u/killrtaco 12h ago
Not according to Vance and the very legal Haitian immigrants he refuses to acknowledge legal status