ICE arrests are forcing American moms to leave their jobs
19thnews.org
A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40244806

Yes, people, including children, are being disappeared to concentration camps but the real victims are the white suburban moms privileged enough to offload their snot nosed brats to other people now being forced to take care of their spawn themselves. Those are the people we should feel bad for, surely.

  • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    A couple weeks ago I went to do some work at a home I have worked at many times in the past over multiple years. Their family has increased in size since last time I was there - they have three kids now. As the woman was cutting a check for the work I finished, I made an offhand comment about having her hands full with the kids. She then told me she had a nanny for the kids but she recently found out that the nanny was deported back to Zacatecas Mexico, and how she was looking for help again and how it was just so hard to find good help and now she had to do all the hard work her self.

    • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      The personal nanny thing is something I don’t understand. But I’m lucky enough to be able to have my kids go to a nice daycare in town. The dynamic of having a nanny watching the kids in your home really gives “the help” vibes for obvious reasons. I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone talk about their nanny without it giving off bad vibes. Well off enough to employ a whole person to watch your kids, but not well off enough to have someone not work and do the job themselves. I think about that episode of Atlanta about the white family who has the nanny sometimes and have to imagine that’s what its like.

        • ourtimewillcome [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          This attitude was one of the more humane ones among Russian aristocrats before the revolution. In certain cases things were much worse

      • microfiche [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        It was a very awkward moment, the twenty seconds or so after she complained about no nanny. I just sort of looked at her face to face, and said ‘have a nice day’ and left.

        It’s absolutely fucked, having a stranger come to your home, and rear your children for you. For whatever reason.

  • mickey [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    The dynamics also appear to be shifting some workers away from formal center- and home-based employment settings toward private households in work as a babysitter, nanny or au pair. Those shifts may reduce the total number of spots a day care can offer.

    Trump’s policy decision to rescind “sensitive location” status for places like day cares has translated into more immigration enforcement arrests near centers.

    Look obviously the focus ought to be on the individuals being deported and the communities directly affected, but ICE gestapo activity is a broad attack on society and it is worth looking at how it impacts childcare and working families. Reading this as “take that PMC scum!” is not supported by this article frankly - those households will keep hiring private nannies. Households are increasingly dependent on dual incomes and that means needing a place to look after you kids during the day.