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angrychair

(10,907 posts)
6. Interesting
Thu Jul 17, 2025, 12:22 PM
Jul 17

Even here it seems a lot of people go right to reinforcing the myth of the poor, uneducated, illiterate undocumented immigrant that also has the connections and money to obtain fake documents to fool the e-verify system.
Right up there with the lazy, violent immigrant on welfare that is also stealing all of our jobs.

Why do people default to giving business owners like Rohwer the benefit of doubt in any wrongdoing but not the immigrants he is employing?

It is a documented trend that businesses like this are the people actually facilitating the fake documents (you know the people with the actual resources to do that and who most benefit from the arrangement) so they can employ cheap labor and then use confirmation bias as a way to shift blame to the undocumented immigrant as the source for the fake documents.
Who do you think they are going to believe? The white male business owner or the undocumented immigrant with brown skin?

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