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paleotn

(20,777 posts)
9. Absolutely.
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 09:40 AM
Jun 14

Control of the supposed "problem" begins and ends with white employers. No work for them here, many simply go back home. Fact is, we need them for economic reasons. We're not going to "white birth rate" ourselves out of these demographic trends. Nor should we. This whole issue is a failure of government to rationally organize the immigration we desperately need. Republicans will not allow that to happen because......

....this is all about performative cruelty driven by white supremacy masquerading as immigration control. It's all about putting brown people back under the thumb, where their very existence in this country is by the leave and whims of white people. And I mean ALL brown people. Not just the undocumented. Do you really think what happened to Senator Padilla would have ever happened to a white Democratic Senator? Not in a 1,000 years.

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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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