So I work in your favorite crappy grocery store. Been there almost 8 years now. Watched it rapidly decline over the past 7 years.
One of my coworkers ranted and raved out how terrible all of our new hires were. (Some of them are kind of bad but not the point). So to me and another employee, he started ranting about the business he used to run back in the day and how great it was.
He then laid out the real stuff. “Back when I ran that store, if you only got scheduled 40 hours, you thought you were in trouble. We told our employees there wasn't a raise. If you wanted money you work overtime. And we had a great crew because we treated the new hires like shit (his words not mine) until we only got the best that wanted to work. And most of them were happy to put up with it, too, because they were illegals!”
At this point we promptly just looked at him like an idiot and said “Do you know what you just said? You just spilled all the beans dude.”
And this is the truth. They want harsh immigration laws because they want the people coming here to be desperate and willing to adhere to being at the bottom of the pile. They don't want people who will stand up for their labor rights. They don't want people with educations at these jobs. They want the hopeless and the downtrodden.
I told him that I thought all of this was fantastic watching the newer generation not put up with being treated like shit anymore. They don't want to work? They aren't motivated enough? If only there was some way to incentivize people to work! The same green that drives that boomer mentality of putting up with shit (that a lot of them never actually had to deal with because they had a union).
Stand up for yourself and the people around you. Solidarity is key. Call out people for being like this. We won't tolerate it anymore.