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I bet the Trumpers are really looking forward to working as farm workers and hotel maids.
Don’t forget national forest loggers!
John cutting their lawn instead of Juan
The number of Americans who don't notice this Nazi shit is too damned high.
DHS claimed Monday that "the Biden administration abused the parole authority to allow millions of illegal aliens into the U.S. which further fueled the worst border crisis in U.S. history."
How are they "illegal aliens" (ignoring for the moment the dehumanization inherent to the phrase), if they were officially allowed to enter and then did?
If I were to guess it would be because Biden is the one who let them in. And Trump is on a kick to literally undo everything that Biden has done in the last 4 years including wrecking our improved economy. It's all Trump cares about.
He did the same thing in 2016. Moved very quickly to wreck nearly everything that Obama had anything to do with. So that he could come back in a couple of years and try to fix all of it. Badly, I might add.
Weird, because I'm understanding the right correctly, Biden did NOTHING for the 4 years he was in office.....
dehumanization
Only for people who don’t understand the term
Washington Dems who have tried to be pro-border security are part of the problem. A major part. Their support for racist xenophobic policies made it easier for the average American to lose sight of basic human equality.
In reality Trump wants all of these people to stay, and stay undocumented, so they can be used as borderline slave labor. The problem is that when Democrats talk about being tough on immigration, they may get easier for him to get away with evil policies like this. What worries me more is that I think many of those Democrats actually believed in their anti-immigrant racist xenophobic policies.
Borderline slave labour? They want to arrest these fuckers and put them in interment camps and have them work for free. 5th amendment. Racist motherfuckers drilling slavery into the constitution.
Washington Dems who have tried to be pro-border security are part of the problem.
Because that's what Democratic voters want.
Most democrats are not leftists, they are liberals.
Meh. I'm not sure how much I really believe this vs. the only candidates with the financial backing and media platform to get noticed in primaries tend to be the corpocentrists.
What data do you need to leave your bubble? Issue polling, favorability polling, revealed preference, actual vote share? Americans, by a wide margin, want. Less legal immigration and stricter enforcement of immigration law — including detention and deportation.
It’s the unfortunate reality.
Okay, first of all, I was questioning your assertion. We should always be willing to critically examine our beliefs, or we'd still be beholden to the divine right of kings.
Second, while I appreciate that that's the current state of affairs, I think that no small part of it is due to Overton window drift and nobody being willing to stick their neck out and present a bold alternative vision for people to adopt. All we have is "Mexicans bad" and everything from "Mexicans bad lite" to "[pride flags][si se puede] Mexicans okay ish". You don't see anyone calling for taking a hammer to the system that makes immigration so fucked up in the first place.
Anecdote, so maybe my perception is biased:
My older brother is a racist asshole that, even though he vote democrats, he is very anti-immigration and doesn't like how "black people and mexicans are getting too much welfare", think immigration should be more strict, even though we are immigrants. Fits right Harris' "Secure the Borders" rhetoric. (He voted Harris btw)
My parents also think the Democrats are being too leinient on immigrarion, and that "illegals" are draining all the benefits.
But they don't see how the republicans don't care about "legal" or "illegal", its a dogwhistle referring to all immigrants.
But fortunately, I convinced my mom to vote Democrats.
Many of my relatives in NYC are also registered democrats. When we were in NYC, my relatives and my mother's friends all had the sentinment to vote democrats. (I was able to verify that some of my relatives were registered as Democrat, since its public info in New York) During family gatherings, and sometimes through WeChat calls that my parents make to relative and friends, they go "How are you doing" then like 5 minutes later "Oh yea thing are crazy, these Democrats are mishandling the 'Migrant Crisis', they letting these 'violent' people going around out and get welfare..." [Conversation is in Cantonese of course] And from what I can hear, both side of the call was agree with the "Democrats too weak on immigration" sentinment. (They put their calls on loudspeaker when I wanted some silence 😕) They are all first-generation immigrants.
I'm just like: 🙄...
So these people are quite common, unfortunately. Harris was pandering to these people.
Do rich Republican donors really support this crap?
Even if we ignore the whole “give a shit about humans” thing, have the parasites that rely on exploiting the labor of others for their existence looked at birth rates in the developed world lately? Fighting over a shrinking labor pool generally means they can demand higher wages. They should be welcoming every person who will voluntarily move here.
And the rank and file useful idiots might want to think about any sliver of a chance they have to get things like social security.