As an aside, I’ve seen this happen elsewhere as well. Classic play for wage theft. When I was working as a bartender in London to make ends meet, I had a coworker from Mexico on an expired visa. Great guy and the most hardworking. Well won’t you guess it, guy got picked up by immigration authority on payday.
Hard to strike/quit in protest when you live paycheck to paycheck and unions have been demolished over the span of the past 60-ish years.
Hard to turn up to work when you might be sent away by doing so. I wouldn’t leave until my next job was lined up or there was a union. It doesn’t need to be a self damaging act to be a retaliatory act.
You also might be sent away by not showing up for work if the boss feels like sending ICE to your home.
Can we just call this what it is? Terrorism.
Or indentured servitude. Also known as slavery.
Indentured servitude has a specific definition to mean working without pay under a contract.
Don’t get me wrong, this is still slavery, but we are all literal slaves to our wages in a capitalist system.
What this post is describing can better be defined as terrorism, which is the use of or threat of violence for a political or religious reason.
Since it’s a combination, maybe we can come up with a new term for it, like “slave terrorism” or something.