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John Oliver on the Alarming Spike in Coronavirus Infections in Prisons & Jails [FULL VIDEO]

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sagehen6/22/2020 4:19:23 pm PDT

re: #218 Targetpractice

I can see Miller’s hand in this, but I can also see the argument that was likely used: “There’s all these jobless people, we could bring UE down quicker if we forced them to take the jobs that normally go to illegals!” And before you say it, remember that to wingnuts, any immigrants who aren’t whiter than cardboard are “illegals.”

It’s an “interesting” theory, but… turns out that farm work, harvest jobs, require a lot more skill than your ordinary city boy might imagine. Replacing those fruit pickers with the urban unemployed results in 2/3 of the crop rotting before anybody can pick it.