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slavery exists today in commercial agriculture, with several cases just in Florida affecting 1200 people in the past 15 years

You Need to Know: The Slavery Conditions on Tomato Farms

Thousands of farm laborers work under slavery-like conditions today in the U.S. and Mexico to grow tomatoes and other produce. This January,

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it’s important to acknowledge the domestic enslavement living through prisons and the police, but this system absolutely includes the borders and immigration laws, which exist to produce a slave class of workers who are quite literally non-citizens with no rights so that capitalists can exploit them and retaliate with deportation, often to homelands torn by war or poverty because of the U.S./the West.

there’s a book here, Fields of Resistance, that’s really informative. I’m in the middle of it but it’s been great so far

tldr: borders exist to enslave people

Abolish borders, abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish the police. They’re different machines of the same system