concordtom said:
MinotStateBeav said:
what does apprehensions have anything to do with it? They're in the country, it's done. They get a court date that they won't show up to and disappear into the country. Also absolutely its a bi-partisan problem.
NEWSFLASH EVERYONE:
Immigration is an economic plus.
Wake up.
I'm not saying we should have an open border, which we don't.
I'm not saying uncontrolled border sneaks is the way to go.
But I do want to stop making it a THEY vs US discussion where THEY are demonized, because THEY actually grow our food, fight our wars, care for our elderly, and once legally here, PAY TAXES!
More people = more consumption and more production. If you like your US-based stocks going up, you like immigration.
You are correct.
And Unit-2 will be the first one to tell you how absurd and restrictive our immigration policies are.
Never mind that if you just got laid off from a high-tech firm in Silicon Valley and you're on an H-1B visa, you've got 60 days to find a new job or your deported. Never mind that more than 70% of tech workers in Silicon Valley were born in another country, per 2018 data.
(about 50,000 tech workers have lost their jobs in the last month at Meta, Amazon, Twitter and other tech firms)
Inflation goes down when you have a strong SUPPLY OF LABOR.
But the Trumpanzees are too dumb to figure that out.
They never made it to college to take an Econ. 1 class.
Just ask anyone from North Dakota.
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."