Probably not feasible to round them all up, I agree. Doesn’t mean we should ship out the ones we find or know about. Make it harder for them to get jobs or punishments for companies that hire them.
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We already are a police state if you realized how powerful our collection is. That’s a different conversation altogether.
Until the U.S. sees any meaningful re-regulation of immigration, all political talk around immigration is just political posturing. Nobody wants to change a thing. They just want to look like they're changing a thing.
The U.S. agricultural, restaurant, and construction businesses alone would be decimated without illegal immigrants jammed 28 to an apartment working for slave wages. And replacing those workers with U.S. citizens earning real wages would mean the price of food and homes would skyrocket even more than they have already in order to hire to staff them. And that would be a political landmine blowing up in everyone's face.
Immigration is a third rail that no one meaningfully wants to address. So there's this fake dance of looking like you're against immigration while allowing them in under the radar. Everything political related to immigration is inherently two-faced.
wouldn't deporting millions of people who likely work long hours in low paying jobs with no benefits and minimal safety regulations likely be at odds with Trump's donors? Sure, his base is all about it but the folks actually giving him money/ significant backing probably don't want to lose access to that exploitable labor force
Donors?
How about Trump's own businesses?...