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https://x.com/arctotherium42/status/1957090557563376095

Quick thread on "white flight" in the Bronx. In 1950, the Bronx was over 90% white. Between 1970 and 1980, the absolute number of whites dropped by half, partially replaced not by blacks but by new immigrant minorities (Puerto Ricans, Hondurans, Vietnamese, etc).

From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Bronx was known for its tranquility, with children playing outside unaccompanied, bikes and scooters left unattended, and doors left ajar for fresh air (!).

This changed in the 60s/70s, when black and Hispanic residents entered the Bronx en masse, attracted by public housing and rent-controlled apartments. For some reason, crime and drug use exploded around the same time. Knives, mugging, shootings, drugs, gang warfare.

Some statistics. From 1960 to 1969, reported assaults increased more than four-fold, reported burglaries in South Bronx more than 16 times. Capped off by the physical destruction of the Bronx by arsonists paid by landlords as part of an insurance fraud conspiracy.

No-go zones. Bronx residents created mental maps of which neighborhoods could be travelled through.

One resident who worked in healthcare remembered how she couldn't provide physical therapy for teenage gang members injured in shootouts because they would attack each other in wheelchairs.

Huge and largely unrecorded rise in petty crime (muggings, theft of bikes, scooters, and doors (?)).

The South Bronx neighborhoods blacks and Hispanics had moved into since WWII became physically dilapidated (for some reason), prompting them to migrate northwards to the remaining white areas. ...

1960-2000, the white population of the Bronx dropped more than 80% in absolute terms.

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

SecRubio 9m

Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.

how much does rich economies like Japan and Israel rely on immigrant labor ?

when does the Chicoms reach a point that the same ones who make this proclamation demand the same of China ?

Those bankers are dimwits.

Lack of labor is irrelevant to productivity.

If those bankers were right, then people would have a better living standard in Bangladesh with a giant labor supply than in Switzerland.

Of course, the opposite is the case.

RE: catching illegals to deport; just have ICE agents in plain clothes ride around in UBER all over the cities.

Remittances to Mexico hit decade low.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/money-wired-mexico-hits-decade-low-us-immigration-policies-take-hold

- Money transfers from the US to Mexico have reached a decade low, with a 16.2% decrease in June 2025 compared to June 2024, totaling $5.2 billion, according to Bank of Mexico (Banxico) data reported by BBVA Research.
- The decline is attributed to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, including deportation policies, which has led to a significant drop in remittances, the largest in 13 years.

clambo says

Lack of labor is irrelevant to productivity.

yep, no more elitist and snarky warnings about $15 per pound for organic strawberries at Whole Foods UNLESS we open our border to the 3rd world masses

https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/berry-picking-robots-wish-farms-is-going-all-in-on-ai-and-automation

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The fools think we are saving money because corporate farms hire illegals and "pass on the savings to us." Bullshit.

Who competes with Foxy and Dole for lettuce production? Who competes with Driscoll for berries?

These and other farms all keep their fantastic profits; strawberries made recently $18,000 per acre, it's likely much higher today.

And don't forget the entire cost of the "cheap labor"; you pay taxes to keep their children fed and schooled, in addition to hospital treatments and sometimes police work leading to prison. All of those cost you in taxes. That $1 lettuce actually costs you probably $5.

And if labor is short, producers will do what they have always done, change production and invent and adapt technology to lower labor inputs.

Which will create middle class, value added jobs that pay taxes, instead of shitty guest worker jobs where the costs are externalized as @clambo described above.

If strawberries start getting picked by machinery, the jobs storing, renting, deploying, maintaining the machinery will create decent paying jobs.

AD says

how much does rich economies like Japan and Israel rely on immigrant labor ?

Israel often uses cheap Palestinian labor.

AD says

clambo says

Lack of labor is irrelevant to productivity.

yep, no more elitist and snarky warnings about $15 per pound for organic strawberries at Whole Foods UNLESS we open our border to the 3rd world masses

https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/berry-picking-robots-wish-farms-is-going-all-in-on-ai-and-automation

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Ok, not berry picking machine but they have those too.

I can’t quite make out what’s being picked. Lettuce?

Glock-n-Load says

I can’t quite make out what’s being picked. Lettuce?

Not sure myself. Thought they may be artichokes.

MolotovCocktail says

Glock-n-Load says

I can’t quite make out what’s being picked. Lettuce?

Not sure myself. Thought they may be artichokes.

Broccoli or cauliflower
At least I know artichokes plants that they grow a truck loads around from seeds from previous years dried artichoke flowers.

Someone above mentioned how Japan finds labor; I can relate what I saw in 1988 in rural Japan and it was fantastic.
I saw older women doing labor everywhere, including repairing roads. I was flabbergasted that the manual labor was very often older Japanese ladies.
It was particularly common to see in sea farming activities. I visited a factory for nets used to grow scallops and was amazed to see a room full of Japanese ladies assembling them by hand. I saw an abalone hatchery and all of the workers on this little island were ladies.
In 1988 I visited places in Japan which reminded me of "You only live Twice" at the end when Bond is running around small islands.

I have no idea what is going on in Japan today; I want to go visit but I can't stomach long flight across the Pacific.

Booger says

Israel often uses cheap Palestinian labor.

No, they use Asian labor. Palestinians are only allowed in free zone factories just over the Walls and back over at the end of the shift: they would never be trusted to live on a farm.

Thais don't blow themselves up for Allah

AD says

how much does rich economies like Japan and Israel rely on immigrant labor ?

Japan not at all.

Israel about 3% of the population is immigrant labor, mostly from India, Philippines, Thailand, and China.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/21/pew-research-biden-administration-packed-swing-states-over-1-million-illegal-aliens/

In just two years of his one-term presidency, President Joe Biden’s border policies helped welcome more than a million illegal aliens to the nation’s electoral swing states and, additionally, some 450,000 illegal aliens to Texas.

The latest Pew Research Center estimates specifically look at the rate at which Biden increased the illegal alien population in a two-year window — from 2021 to 2023.

Notably, the Biden administration packed swing states with more than a million illegal aliens during those two years, with likely many more resettling in such states from 2023 through 2024.

In particular, the swing state of Florida saw its illegal alien population grow by 700,000 in just two years under Biden, while Georgia’s illegal alien population grew by 100,000. ...

While the Pew Research Center estimates that the illegal alien population hit a record in 2023 under Biden, at more than 14 million, scholarly estimates from years prior suggest that the illegal alien population today is well above 22 million.

@robsmithonline
I’m in one of the whitest states in the nation and still managed to get an Uber driver named “Mohammed” playing Habbibi music or whatever on the way to my ferry.

There are simply way, WAY too many immigrants - both legal and illegal - in America.

FL DOT to re-open weigh stations, check Immigration Status
https://patrick.net/post/1385443/2025-08-26-fl-highway-weigh-stations-to-check

Blue says

MolotovCocktail says

Glock-n-Load says

I can’t quite make out what’s being picked. Lettuce?

Not sure myself. Thought they may be artichokes.

Broccoli or cauliflower
At least I know artichokes plants that they grow a truck loads around from seeds from previous years dried artichoke flowers.

That machine is picking Broccoli.

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

N.I.C.E.

And they get their lunch delivered!

Work smarter, not harder.

To be perfectly fair, the Trump administration did go a bit overboard by asking Uganda if they wanted him chunked on ice, or whole on the hoof.

Love how they put an appropriate soundtrack to this one.

Ceffer says

To be perfectly fair, the Trump administration did go a bit overboard by asking Uganda if they wanted him chunked on ice, or whole on the hoof.

I disagree. It's man, testosterone type shit to say stuff like that. Bring testosterone back.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/americas-most-popular-beer-maker-cuts-fiscal-outlook-as-trumps-immigration-crackdown-hits-demand-172210030.html

America's most popular beer maker cuts fiscal outlook as Trump's immigration crackdown hits demand

Constellation Brands (STZ) stock fell 7% on Tuesday after the Modelo and Corona owner cut its fiscal year outlook and said in a statement that declines in high-end beer sales to Hispanic consumers "were more pronounced than general market declines."

zzyzzx says

declines in high-end beer sales to Hispanic consumers "were more pronounced than general market declines."

That would indicate that sales of Fanta will fall as well.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/450-people-ice-custody-hyundai-plant-georgia/story?id=125286055

At least 450 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia

zzyzzx says

https://abcnews.go.com/US/450-people-ice-custody-hyundai-plant-georgia/story?id=125286055

At least 450 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia

https://ground.news/article/south-korean-workers-held-in-georgia-immigration-raid-to-return-home-following-talks

U.S. authorities detained 475 people, mostly South Korean workers, in a large immigration raid Thursday at the Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia.

The raid formed part of President Trump's broader crackdown on undocumented immigrants and targeted violations of employment laws at the construction site.

South Korea, expressing concern, swiftly engaged through diplomats and officials including LG Energy Solution's HR chief, Kim Ki-soo, who prioritized the detainees’ prompt release.

On Sunday, the chief of staff to South Korea’s president announced that talks with the U.S. have ended, and once all administrative steps are completed, the detained workers will be flown back to South Korea on a chartered plane.

So they get a free ride back home. Pretty much a bonus for them.

Patrick says

https://apnews.com/article/brad-lander-nyc-immigration-court-arrest-6ed341297efab31a08a14421674d8ed8

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday after he linked arms with a person authorities were attempting to detain.

Patrick says

U.S. authorities detained 475 people, mostly South Korean workers, in a large immigration raid Thursday at the Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Ellabell, Georgia.

475 jobs that would be done by Americans. Crazy.