Tell those fine folks from Ohio, welcome to Texas. That's what we've been dealing with for decades. A never ending crush of humanity. Driving down wages, pushing up the cost of living, signing their American born kids up for every possible handout. Even petty stuff like pushing their kids past yours at the Christmas parade, but never showing up to help build the floats that make up the parade.
Eventually you find your compassion has been worn out. So I can't say I'm too bothered when a couple "woke" useful idiots get themselves shot while trying to protect and defend the corruption that is driving those same useful idiots to vote for the socialist policies that keep wrecking the places these illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers are coming from.
The kind of individual who wants to break into a country illegally is the kind of pushy asshole who shoves their kid ahead of yours and demands benefits they don’t deserve. But people who want cheap labor can’t think of people as individuals with personalities, they think of everyone as economic units
The chaos we have seen especially in Minnesota but elsewhere too is caused by state and local officials who refuse to follow the law. ICE is not trained for crowd control so they don't do it well. State and local police are so trained but are forbidden from doing anything. It is actually against Federal criminal law to harbor illegal aliens. This law has been on the books since the 1950s. When Democrats rewrote basic immigration law in 1965, they didn't change it. I suggest that it be used against politicians and NGOs instead of playing whack a mole with roofers and landscapers. Be hell to pay for a while but there was when the civil rights laws were enforced too.
Strange how the optics of watching law enforcement dealing with “mostly peaceful protesters” and arresting illegal aliens in social media videos and through main stream media propaganda seems more real, somehow, than the cruelty of American citizens with reduced living standards and more burdensome taxation from fraudulently obtained benefits. Even by the very working people most affected by the entire criminal enterprise. And that’s a form of cruelty in itself: training the victims to view themselves as the perpetrators.
Propaganda has been refined into a powerful tool. Clearly the administration needs to be more mindful of optics, using the hammer of strong financial and legal mechanisms for enforcement that don’t even show themselves on video. And the populist right learn needs better strategies to counter the weaponized propaganda outlets.
This is actually a really good article. I support what Trump is doing 100%, but I never expected deporting millions of people to be pretty. Apparently I'm in the minority though.
There are lots of ways it could be done smarter that would probably not incur this sort of backlash. But Trump is Trump... not a strategic thinker.
Boy did you hit the nail on the head, that almost everyone else, Rep or Dem, fails to mention.
The cost of illegal immigration is overwhelmingly born by Americans least able to shoulder it.
Even Biden's official stats admitted more than 50% of all naturalized citizens and immigrants dwelling both legally and illegally, live in a household enrolled in welfare programs. Not only is that not sustainable in a nation with $38 trillions dollars in debt, when the inevitable cuts are made down the road for everyone, Americans least able to absorb the cuts, will suffer the most.
Those same Americans are also hit hardest by low skill wages being driven down, just as their cost of affordable housing has been driven up, because Dems imported 10 million people without a single extra bedroom to shelter them. Likewise their ability to obtain healthcare is impacted because it take 30 years to produce a doctor, from birth. The MD shortage makes healthcare both harder to obtain and more expensive.
On the other side, the migrants using welfare to survive in the very expensive US, are going to be up a creek without a paddle, as it disappears for them over the next 12 months.
Considering the above, I wish Trump would make a speech that notes it costs $14K per deportation so the US will offer any noncriminal who wishes to self deport a $10K check if they leave by midsummer, after the school year's end. They can take their pets with them and the US will toss in free shipping of their furniture and personal possessions. They can reapply for legal immigration in 5 years.
Sign up, and immediately receive a card that will prevent any detainment prior to July 30. Millions of people from low cost places where that amount will build a home or start a business, with money leftover, would likely, immediately, take advantage.
Illegal migrants would no longer need to fear weeks or months in a deportation facility. Reps would immediately regain the higher ground on Immigration. The US will save far more than the $4K per deportation, as the use of welfare and healthcare drops. It would also free up ICE to focus on criminals.
Trump should say as a builder, he realizes that money could accomplish the same thing as a deportation, while furnishing those that voluntarily leave with seed money to start over in their nations of origin, where their skill levels and language skills are better matched than in the expensive US with a knowledge economy.
I think it's apparent from some of the remarks of the interviewees that a lot of their impressions of ICE operations are from carefully edited social media posts. Some that are misidentified. One commented about agents frivolously firing their guns simply because the didnt agree with what someone was saying. None really brought up the point that a lot of the chaos is caused by the noncooperation of local and state authorities forcing ICE into the neighborhoods to pick up the criminals. When that happens anyone who is in the same dwelling and has paperwork irregularities gets picked up too. I voted for this. Ice is not the problem.
East Asians work the system, mostly by returning to their country and applying at the US consulate there. It's the people who stay here, assuming they can just kind of fly under the radar who are having a problem. Every single Asian I know has found a way to either legalise their status, or if impossible has knowingly returned to their country.
I will say this is the first news story I've read that interviews people who are actually harmed by illegal low wage immigration. The incessant biased news stories from the major media for sure has an effect on people. To be anti illegal immigrant is to be labeled a racist, where as in actuality the working class tends to work beside and intermarry with illegal immigrants to a much greater degree than journalists.
There is now pressure from another quarter, the mid sized businesses that rely on low cost labor. Companies of two or three people aren't hurt as much as those with ten or twenty employees, or hundreds of subcontractors. This past week businesses have been pushing congress people who have met with the administration.
If another 4 or 5 million workers left America, it would lift large portions of our population out of poverty, but there would be disruptions and some businesses would fail. A 25% increase in low wage labor would also cause some inflation.
I would like to see every single person registered, not with a visa, but just to track who they are. To end illegal workers and residency we have to know who is who, followed by a measured and predictable timetable for deportation or a per hour tax. Employers should pay more.
The equivocation and sniveling of some of these people is stomach churning. What did they think removing the illegals was going to look like? They want them removed, but not if anyone's feelings get hurt? Frankly, when I hear nonsense like this, it makes me feel these people deserve to be replaced in their jobs and communities by foreigners.
Sheena and her husband Kal adopted the drug addict cousin’s orphaned son, “forcing” Shawna to go from full-time to part-time work in order to care for him.
Tell those fine folks from Ohio, welcome to Texas. That's what we've been dealing with for decades. A never ending crush of humanity. Driving down wages, pushing up the cost of living, signing their American born kids up for every possible handout. Even petty stuff like pushing their kids past yours at the Christmas parade, but never showing up to help build the floats that make up the parade.
Eventually you find your compassion has been worn out. So I can't say I'm too bothered when a couple "woke" useful idiots get themselves shot while trying to protect and defend the corruption that is driving those same useful idiots to vote for the socialist policies that keep wrecking the places these illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers are coming from.
The kind of individual who wants to break into a country illegally is the kind of pushy asshole who shoves their kid ahead of yours and demands benefits they don’t deserve. But people who want cheap labor can’t think of people as individuals with personalities, they think of everyone as economic units
The chaos we have seen especially in Minnesota but elsewhere too is caused by state and local officials who refuse to follow the law. ICE is not trained for crowd control so they don't do it well. State and local police are so trained but are forbidden from doing anything. It is actually against Federal criminal law to harbor illegal aliens. This law has been on the books since the 1950s. When Democrats rewrote basic immigration law in 1965, they didn't change it. I suggest that it be used against politicians and NGOs instead of playing whack a mole with roofers and landscapers. Be hell to pay for a while but there was when the civil rights laws were enforced too.
Strange how the optics of watching law enforcement dealing with “mostly peaceful protesters” and arresting illegal aliens in social media videos and through main stream media propaganda seems more real, somehow, than the cruelty of American citizens with reduced living standards and more burdensome taxation from fraudulently obtained benefits. Even by the very working people most affected by the entire criminal enterprise. And that’s a form of cruelty in itself: training the victims to view themselves as the perpetrators.
Propaganda has been refined into a powerful tool. Clearly the administration needs to be more mindful of optics, using the hammer of strong financial and legal mechanisms for enforcement that don’t even show themselves on video. And the populist right learn needs better strategies to counter the weaponized propaganda outlets.
This is actually a really good article. I support what Trump is doing 100%, but I never expected deporting millions of people to be pretty. Apparently I'm in the minority though.
There are lots of ways it could be done smarter that would probably not incur this sort of backlash. But Trump is Trump... not a strategic thinker.
Boy did you hit the nail on the head, that almost everyone else, Rep or Dem, fails to mention.
The cost of illegal immigration is overwhelmingly born by Americans least able to shoulder it.
Even Biden's official stats admitted more than 50% of all naturalized citizens and immigrants dwelling both legally and illegally, live in a household enrolled in welfare programs. Not only is that not sustainable in a nation with $38 trillions dollars in debt, when the inevitable cuts are made down the road for everyone, Americans least able to absorb the cuts, will suffer the most.
Those same Americans are also hit hardest by low skill wages being driven down, just as their cost of affordable housing has been driven up, because Dems imported 10 million people without a single extra bedroom to shelter them. Likewise their ability to obtain healthcare is impacted because it take 30 years to produce a doctor, from birth. The MD shortage makes healthcare both harder to obtain and more expensive.
On the other side, the migrants using welfare to survive in the very expensive US, are going to be up a creek without a paddle, as it disappears for them over the next 12 months.
Considering the above, I wish Trump would make a speech that notes it costs $14K per deportation so the US will offer any noncriminal who wishes to self deport a $10K check if they leave by midsummer, after the school year's end. They can take their pets with them and the US will toss in free shipping of their furniture and personal possessions. They can reapply for legal immigration in 5 years.
Sign up, and immediately receive a card that will prevent any detainment prior to July 30. Millions of people from low cost places where that amount will build a home or start a business, with money leftover, would likely, immediately, take advantage.
Illegal migrants would no longer need to fear weeks or months in a deportation facility. Reps would immediately regain the higher ground on Immigration. The US will save far more than the $4K per deportation, as the use of welfare and healthcare drops. It would also free up ICE to focus on criminals.
Trump should say as a builder, he realizes that money could accomplish the same thing as a deportation, while furnishing those that voluntarily leave with seed money to start over in their nations of origin, where their skill levels and language skills are better matched than in the expensive US with a knowledge economy.
I think it's apparent from some of the remarks of the interviewees that a lot of their impressions of ICE operations are from carefully edited social media posts. Some that are misidentified. One commented about agents frivolously firing their guns simply because the didnt agree with what someone was saying. None really brought up the point that a lot of the chaos is caused by the noncooperation of local and state authorities forcing ICE into the neighborhoods to pick up the criminals. When that happens anyone who is in the same dwelling and has paperwork irregularities gets picked up too. I voted for this. Ice is not the problem.
We need to enforce immigration laws from the department of labor not homeland security…. Seriously this is where the real abuse occurs!
I hadn't changed my mind.
East Asians work the system, mostly by returning to their country and applying at the US consulate there. It's the people who stay here, assuming they can just kind of fly under the radar who are having a problem. Every single Asian I know has found a way to either legalise their status, or if impossible has knowingly returned to their country.
I will say this is the first news story I've read that interviews people who are actually harmed by illegal low wage immigration. The incessant biased news stories from the major media for sure has an effect on people. To be anti illegal immigrant is to be labeled a racist, where as in actuality the working class tends to work beside and intermarry with illegal immigrants to a much greater degree than journalists.
There is now pressure from another quarter, the mid sized businesses that rely on low cost labor. Companies of two or three people aren't hurt as much as those with ten or twenty employees, or hundreds of subcontractors. This past week businesses have been pushing congress people who have met with the administration.
If another 4 or 5 million workers left America, it would lift large portions of our population out of poverty, but there would be disruptions and some businesses would fail. A 25% increase in low wage labor would also cause some inflation.
I would like to see every single person registered, not with a visa, but just to track who they are. To end illegal workers and residency we have to know who is who, followed by a measured and predictable timetable for deportation or a per hour tax. Employers should pay more.
It's what I voted for.
This is one of the most encouraging things I have read in a while, especially regarding immigration.
The equivocation and sniveling of some of these people is stomach churning. What did they think removing the illegals was going to look like? They want them removed, but not if anyone's feelings get hurt? Frankly, when I hear nonsense like this, it makes me feel these people deserve to be replaced in their jobs and communities by foreigners.
Sheena and her husband Kal adopted the drug addict cousin’s orphaned son, “forcing” Shawna to go from full-time to part-time work in order to care for him.