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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“Immigrants fill jobs Americans don’t want to do,” he said.

Undocumented immigrants fill jobs Americans don't want to do for the exploitative wages the employers pay.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Both are true.

Many immigrants are highly educated and hold well-paying jobs, but the vast majority of immigrants, legal or otherwise, are a source of cheap(er) labor. They make about 86¢ per dollar their native-born peers make, and they're less likely to hold management and higher positions.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/forbrn.pdf

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Finally. Crack down on employers and you'll cease to have a problem if thats what this is all really about

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If anyone wants a reality check: Trump will install cronies everywhere who will fabricate charges and evidence to put ANYONE in jail. The courts are packed in most states with people he appointed. This is a police state.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The US has been a police state for over 20 years. Trump's just going mask-off with it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So who was the single person who all authority figures bent the knee to before Trump?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You're describing a dictatorship. That's not what police state means. They often go together but each can exist without the other. A multiparty representative government is perfectly capable of running a police state, and the US has been doing so since 2002.

After 9/11 the federal government, through the Patriot act and others like it, gave themselves the power to spy on everything a citizen does, detain them indefinitely, torture them, seize their assets, or declare them an enemy combatant and target them with a drone.

The US was a police state long before Trump came along. He's a symptom. Maybe even an inevitability.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Billionaire Miami Developer

I shut off.

But even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Dude makes billions off fascism and state violence then complains about a "crackdown".

Somebody should've cracked down on this creep long ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Too little too late.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

lol buckle up, shitty miami guy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Will it make Trump stop being a little whiny baby bitch? I bet if he does it hard enough, then he'll be strong like a big man.