Thanksgiving Will Go On Without Migrant Workers
Despite What The Media Will Tell You
The website America’s Voice (which is not the voice of America, but an activist organization dedicated to legalizing illegal immigrants) has a Thanksgiving post called Give Thanks to Immigrant Workers This Year … And Prepare to Pay More for Thanksgiving Feast Next Year, November 26, 2024.
They say
As Americans prepare to gather with families for a Thanksgiving feast, remember that immigrant workers are essential to the celebration – and that Donald Trump’s plans of mass deportation and slashing legal immigration levels promises to make the year ahead a lot more cruel and next year’s Thanksgiving all the more expensive.
They have two ideas, (1) that farming wouldn’t occur without cheap immigrant labor, and (2) that deportation will increase the price of food to American consumers.
Their evidence—“US farm groups ” are begging President-elect Trump to spare their workers from deportation. Farm groups always do that. It’s estimated that no more than 16.7 percent of all agricultural workers are illegal, and while they make profits for farmers, they’re a net loss to America, using up more in tax dollars than they can ever pay in taxes.
American farmers are perfectly capable of getting in crops with automated pickers, American workers, or legal guest workers—for whom they have to pay transportation (both ways) and provide housing. They just don’t want to.
America’s Voice is an explicitly activist/immigration enthusiast organization, and their press releases are supposed to be propaganda, but old media organizations are willing to act as conveyors for activist/immigration enthusiast propaganda.
Here’s the Philadelphia Inquirer repeating HIAS propaganda. (HIAS was originally the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, founded in 1881 to help legal Jewish immigrants from Europe.)
The dinner was hosted by HIAS Pennsylvania, an immigrant services and refugee resettlement agency. In the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection, clients are "sad and afraid," its leader said.
by Maddie Hanna, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 26, 2024
Antonio Garcia has been content with his life in Philadelphia since emigrating from El Salvador six years ago. A maintenance worker for an apartment complex, Garcia lives with his wife and three children in Northeast Philadelphia, in a neighborhood with “so many cultures.”
But Garcia — who left El Salvador in part to find better educational opportunities for his daughter, who has Down syndrome — is newly worried about his prospects.
“We are nervous about Trump,” Garcia said. “We hope that he doesn’t do much that he says.”
Garcia and his family were among more than 100 people who took part in a Thanksgiving dinner at the Old Pine Community Center in Society Hill on Sunday hosted by HIAS Pennsylvania, an immigrant services and refugee resettlement agency. In the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection — after a campaign season featuring dark rhetoric about immigrants and promises of mass deportations — there was a current of anxiety underlying the event. [More]
They don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in El Salvador, but it’s part of trying to make Thanksgiving about immigrants, and the Great Replacement. Garcia, as a “maintenance worker for an apartment complex,” can’t possibly earn enough money to pay for what his three children consume in education, even if one of them didn’t have Down syndrome—special education is a huge expense to the state of Pennsylvania. And Garcia doesn’t say he was fleeing the (former) violence of El Salvador—he came here explicitly to rob the American/Pennsylvanian education system.
And like the Pilgrim Fathers, he’s colonizing America, having a citizen child:
During his six years in Philadelphia, Garcia, the El Salvador native, said he hasn’t had any problems. His older son, 13-year-old Dylan, said he and his 11-year-old sister were happy to join their parents in Philadelphia four years ago; upon moving here, his parents had a third child.
A child born in America to illegal parents is called an Anchor Baby, because such a child makes it hard for immigration authorities to deport their parents, although you would think that a family would take their child back with them when they left.
Finally, Garcia is quoted as saying
“There are a lot of families here. We work hard and contribute.”
Well, no. He may “contribute” by doing an apartment maintenance job that could be done by an unemployed American, but he’s taking by bringing his family to America for schooling.
There’s lots more of this Thanksgiving Immigration enthusiasm in the Mainstream Media:
Refugee Thanksgiving Offered an Escape From Politics...for Some
"We don't know what the next four years will hold for refugee resettlement. At this point, I think everybody is focused on what we can do today."
By Bennito L. Kelty, Westword, November 26, 2024Embracing Two Cultures: Our Thanksgiving Story
By Ximena Escalante, Immigration Impact, November 26, 2024Thanksgiving clothing colors: Integrating cultural traditions
by Luis Tellez, Enlacelatinonc.Org, November 25, 2024International Institute welcomes immigrant families for first Thanksgiving
This holiday season is more of a homecoming for the Levchenko siblings.
By Kimberly Donahue, FirstAlert4.com (St. Louis), November 24, 2024A thank you to the undocumented on the eve of Trump's deportation storm
By Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, November 26, 2024
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American tradition. All of these attempts to make it about immigration are part of what we call the Great Replacement. Expect more of this kind of thing during the incoming Trump Administration—but fewer illegal immigrants for it to be about.
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