Its frankly crazy. We've virtually forgotten about it, but they sure as fuck haven't. California is Mexican clay in their heads despite the ass whooping they got last time. Imagine being generationally asshurt. I fucking can't.
They don't even fucking know who they really are to be this retardedly pissed off about it; you're not wrong, it's all historical racial grievancing, but they really have no fucking clue that the modern "Mexican" is a fucking hodgepodge of smaller tribes, and this is exponentially true when you consider all the "stolen" land they want back. I grew up next to a reservation; the Mojave Tribe never considered themselves subjects of Spanish controlled Mexico, despite the land borders being defined as such, and God knows all the other tribes that didn't either (I can't name them all). But all these modern Mexicans, who want to scream about foreign land; you're some fucking mix of Aztec and other lesser tribes they victimized or an ever lesser known tribe that was somewhere in the area. Mexico as it once was, was a creation of Spain; and these retarded thick booty taco munchers expect me to believe all that fucking land is some super blended brown "Mexican" who speaks the white man's language. Their only solidarity is not knowing what smaller tribe they were a part of; so they're just brown/Mexican, yet want to scream about colonialization.
Which is one reason I speak lowly of them. They want to try all these modern progressive colonialist shit; bitch you don't even know your mother tongue, you screech about white men raping your abuela, yet speak his language and then try to stake a claim to the borders they made. You retards even have the whole "Mejorar la raza" which is "better the race," which is soft speak for parents telling their kids to get a white partner, because being whiter is a better bloodline. You celebrate your brown skin, while also being told to get a whitey for better genetics.
So anytime these soulless fucking husks want to scream about historical racial grievances, just remember they're not human, they're just mimicking modern talking points. It's no better than a toddler making noises by copying its parents; but the child has a chance to grow up and do something.
I'm been arguing that having labor as scarce rather than surplus would do more to improve the wages, conditions and life of the American working class than any amount of governmental diktats and legislation ever could.
Imo, things like minimum wage, social housing, etc., are symptoms of a problem which is wage depression caused by a labour surplus caused by infinite cheap brownoids.
And you are right, the supposed cure to labor shortage (which isn't a thing) caused the very issue at hand. It is like when Uber undercuts all the taxi firms in a city to form a monopoly. Brownoids undercut the american working class.
Not that I trust economists, because they just seem to make shit up and smudge numbers and pretend like they know what they're doing. But if we are to believe Econ 101, and I try to, because it makes sense; a shortage increases value and a surplus lowers value, especially when it comes to things that a good amount of people need. Labor, being in whatever form, you need bodies to do things, trained or untrained, you need bodies; whether it's deportations, genocide, or shackling women to the stove and keeping them out of the workforce, fewer available bodies would lead to an increase in wages as companies compete to attract talent. This wouldn't be an immediate fix, as things would have to stabilize and normalize, and there are other problems aside from the amount of available bodies, but if Econ Books are to be trusted (I really don't fucking trust those people), you're not wrong.
As an aside, a lot of that "construction" labor people like to tout; there's a whole cottage industry popping up on YouTube and other social media of building inspectors showing all the problems with new builds. A lot of the "construction" they do is simple heavy lifting and hammer swinging shit; so while the electrical and plumbing may be good, a lot of simple shit like measurements and proper screw/nails/etc aren't. Sure you can blame the foreman for letting the bad shit slide, and that is part of it, but the other part is they look for cheap help, not help that will do it right the first time. Now remember, when hiring help, you only get to pick two.
