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Scrivener7

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5. This has never been about ending illegal immigration.
Fri Jun 27, 2025, 10:44 AM
Jun 27

If they went after the ones employing undocumented immigrants, illegal immigration would stop tomorrow.

Instead of a dozen workers in a plant, they'd only have to arrest and prosecute a single farmer or a single owner of a manufacturing plant.

When they don't go after the employers, the employers just go and get more undocumented workers and the cycle continues. If they DID go after the employers and imposed stiff fines and jail sentences, there would be no more jobs to attract undocumented workers. This "problem" would go away.

They know this. They know they could stop this on a dime if that's what they really wanted to do. But they don't. So WE know that's not what they really want to do.

This is just a hunting party for the good old boys. This is sport for them. It has nothing to do with anger at lack of documentation. It has to do with people who want to think others are sub-human so they can feel superior.

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