Traditionally, you’d pay the middle class well and then bring in migrants that you can exploit quite easily.

This however does not maximise short term profit, because the pay sheet is eating into that.

So you need to lower the middle class wages, but then you have open rebellion when they earn about the same as the slaves migrants. So you need to get rid of the migrants, so that the middle class can take their place.

And that’s how I met ICE.