So how fucked up we want to make everything for the backbone-industry everyone is needing:
US: Yes
Seriously, I can’t even understand how people allow this to happen in your own country. It would be political suicide to try this in any place of Germany.
Your first sentence is absolutely accurate, but I think this specific case is more about sticking it to the libs in the cities that passed these laws, with the side benefit that most of these workers are minorities that the state reps don’t like.