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Ashka A's avatar

It is also an unsaid truism that the country relies on the labor of undocumented workers both in the form of tax dollars that they contribute for which they do not reap a direct benefit and the very cheap labor that keeps our prices low for things such as our produce. That being said, we do need a better and more efficient process to manage immigration and perhaps create more documented immigration. |||| however, I do not think these MAGA people are interested in the nuances of immigration and the benefits of that immigration. They seem to want to get rid of anyone with melanin. I fear they will want to remove temporary protected statuses of many immigrants, deport DACA recipients, and next go after green card holders. Trump has floated the idea of denaturalizing citizens as well. Though I am not sure if that’s possible.

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Laura Haule's avatar

This is all true - better faster processing of documents, a more just immigration system. I am thinking about our bigger cities. Who is going to work in restaurants, be teacher and doctors, work in construction, landscape, maintenance, manufacturing, airports, driving cabs, everything. I don't understand why they don't look around themselves and see who is doing this work.

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TomD's avatar

Who knows...maybe some of the rest of us malcontent will be banished to Greenland....

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J. R. Barry's avatar

"Bulwarkia" will be the new detainment center area of newly-acquired Greenland! We'll ALL get to meet there, maybe face-to-face.

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TomD's avatar

Remind me. Is it a loaf of bread in a file ot a file in a loaf of bread?

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