Back around 2011, I was reading a personal account of a guy who figured out his cousin’s meatpacking business growth. The cousin had gotten some big grocery contract around the 2005-era for a grocery in the Ohio Valley area. Lots of profit built into the contract. The cousin had figured out a method to increase the profit....bring in mostly all Mexican to do the physical work. Other than three or four supervisors...the rest was underground labor (no insurance, no social security, nothing but $7 an hour on labor). The guy had trailers put up on some remote property....trucked the workers in...paid cash, and ensured no contact with the general public.
I think all across the south and rust-belt....you can find hundreds of operations like this. Small operations with dozens or hundreds of illegal employees. Cops are in on the deal...as are Republicans and Democrats. No one wants to disturb this venture of capitalism.
You are correct....at the heart of this matter...blacks are the ones screwed mostly out of employment. No one will pick their cause or point at how corrupted politics has become.
Enforce E-verify.
In the midwest, too. Farmtown, RFD is half Mexicans now.
Until employers butt hurt from using illegals, no change is coming.
Thing is, there’s either too few entry level people around to refill those jobs, or too few willing to do that work, or both, at the going payrate. Sans a ‘workfare’ program, pay will most likely have to go up, and also product prices.