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Scrivener7

(56,484 posts)
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 07:59 AM Jun 14

None of this is about undocumented immigrants. We have proof of that. [View all]

If this was about undocumented immigrants the logical solution would be to enforce the rules prohibiting employing undocumented workers. One single processing plant owner. One single farmer.

If they went after the people employing the undocumented workers, gave THOSE people jail time and stiff fines, no one would be doing it.

Instead, they choose the infinitely harder task of going after the workers themselves. Instead of one person, they have to arrest dozens. Then they have to house the dozens, feed them, transport them, go through the cost of dozens more legal procedures, then incur the cost of the actual deportation. And none of that actually stops illegal immigration.

They do this when they could actually stop the employment of undocumented workers with a fraction of the effort and cost.

So we know this isn't about anger at the presence of people working illegally.

So what is left as a motive for this?

Fun. They do this because they find it fun. This is how they get their jollies. They get some kind of sick, sour joy in their shriveled little hearts from doing and seeing this cruelty that lets them think they are better than someone. There is no other explanation that makes sense of their senseless actions.

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Yes, they are all having a great time destroying the country they have hated for years. Biophilic Jun 14 #1
"He's a sadist, but not in any fun way ..." - Brian Beutler on Stephen Miller sop Jun 14 #2
Its about instilling terror and distracting us pfitz59 Jun 14 #3
This!!! FailureToCommunicate Jun 14 #5
It's a twofer! paleotn Jun 14 #10
Along with people making lots of money. nt moniss Jun 14 #4
That's the bottom line. Justice matters. Jun 14 #17
They also take government subsidies by way of moniss Jun 14 #20
Bingo. multigraincracker Jun 14 #6
Yeah. This system allows for horrible exploitation of people who have been made desperate. Scrivener7 Jun 14 #22
What you describe is the "means" PhilosopherKing Jun 14 #7
Bingo. The very heart of the matter. paleotn Jun 14 #11
I heard that the reason employers are not charged for hiring illegal immigrants is they can beat the charges because spike jones Jun 14 #8
M point of view -- Where I worked, I was the guy checking the papers. I did it. But I have no idea if the papers 3Hotdogs Jun 14 #12
That is understandable, but it seems like a better system could be developed. spike jones Jun 14 #19
But if they really cared, they would have a better system. A registry or a system that made it easier for you to Scrivener7 Jun 14 #21
Absolutely. paleotn Jun 14 #9
It's about selling people. Clouds Passing Jun 14 #13
As always, the owners breaking the law are never arrested. travelingthrulife Jun 14 #14
K&R! William769 Jun 14 #15
They do it for two reasons: Martin Eden Jun 14 #16
Decades Mr.Bee Jun 14 #18
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