We could reduce illegal immigration by 80% within six months if we really wanted to. All it would take is a new law; hire someone undocumented once, and it's $100K per incident. Twice, it's a million, and three times, it's prison for the heads of the companies. They'd suddenly get serious, and there would be no work. But that's not what …
We could reduce illegal immigration by 80% within six months if we really wanted to. All it would take is a new law; hire someone undocumented once, and it's $100K per incident. Twice, it's a million, and three times, it's prison for the heads of the companies. They'd suddenly get serious, and there would be no work. But that's not what they want. They want this to be like Prohibition; make the law on Friday, ignore it by Monday, except for the people who have no power who they'll beat up on periodically to keep up the theater.
(Not to say I approve of the above. I find it morally and practically abominable. But if they wanted to actually cut what they say they hate, it'd do that.)
If America didn’t hire the undocumented we’d have no food, construction, nail salons or hotel workers. There is a reason that all of the people in this tragedy had jobs. They are needed.
Exactly, I worked in personnel and we had to fingerprint and copy three IDs to prove a person had the right to work. If people are hiring illegals they are breaking the law, except for agricultural work which is exempt. Also, regulations for small business is different. Restaurants also have different laws. Small businesses can pay in cash. I don't hear anything about all the Asian illegals that come through the ports or the eastern Europeans either. Even though the countries are no longer Communist the people still get a free pass. But then they're white.
There really should be no exemptions just like there shouldn’t for overtime, minimum wage laws, or unemployment. In fact, the people who need those the most are the jobs that are exempt!
When Adam Serwer wrote "Cruelty is the Point" after Trump was in office for a while, the clarity of what he wrote hit me hard. He compared hate filled MAGA to the old photos of white people laughing and grinning like hyenas at the lynching of Black people. Cruelty feeds these people. Greg Abbott is no different. Two mothers killed in the slaughter outside Houston had thrown their bodies over their children. They died saving their babies. But filth like Abbott has to ring the racist bell. It's "wink-wink-nothing to see here", they're "illegal". The incandescent rage I feel toward these ignorant, hate filled excuses for humans runs deep.
While I agree with what you say about Abbott and his ilk, don’t let them harden your heart with hate. That is their goal. They’re hoping to spread of hate and fear for money and power. We must stand up with love and empathy so we call out their selfish, cruel motives, but don’t become like them in their ways of hate.
I will vote them out, and encourage everyone I interact with to do the same, but I’m careful not to let evil into my heart because it can make a home there.
I wasn’t talking about it from a superstitious “mind of its own” type thing. I was speaking about it becoming a way of thinking. It has been scientifically proven that those who write down 5 things they are grateful for at night begin to look for things during the day to be grateful for. I am just saying I don’t want to become a person whose so cynical and full of hate, that it leads to shooting people who ring the doorbell (ring any bells?). That’s it. Nothing superstitious about how the mind works.
I believe that Republicans have never had any intention of passing legislation to make life better for all Americans. The old Republican party was all about making the rich richer. The MAGAs finally realized this and rejected the old GOP. This is part of the reason for Trump's rise. Many of them also loved that instead of using dog whistles, he was overtly racist.
The GOP also learned with the Dobb's decision that getting their way on a wedge issue does not work to enhance their political power. I don't see them ever coming up with a solution to the immigration problem.
They aren’t into offering solutions. That was the GOP in the BT. They just would rather make you angry and afraid of everything so you’ll vote for them: crime, LGTBQ, your neighbor, your schools, “groomers” and the woke mob, immigrants, non-church going hippies, SUCCESSFUL economies, and the list goes on. They’ll never run out of boogeymen. Once you step outside the scare mongering the scales fall from your eyes and you hear the desperation.
We could reduce illegal immigration by 80% within six months if we really wanted to. All it would take is a new law; hire someone undocumented once, and it's $100K per incident. Twice, it's a million, and three times, it's prison for the heads of the companies. They'd suddenly get serious, and there would be no work. But that's not what they want. They want this to be like Prohibition; make the law on Friday, ignore it by Monday, except for the people who have no power who they'll beat up on periodically to keep up the theater.
(Not to say I approve of the above. I find it morally and practically abominable. But if they wanted to actually cut what they say they hate, it'd do that.)
If America didn’t hire the undocumented we’d have no food, construction, nail salons or hotel workers. There is a reason that all of the people in this tragedy had jobs. They are needed.
The Right are such hypocrites about this.
Exactly, I worked in personnel and we had to fingerprint and copy three IDs to prove a person had the right to work. If people are hiring illegals they are breaking the law, except for agricultural work which is exempt. Also, regulations for small business is different. Restaurants also have different laws. Small businesses can pay in cash. I don't hear anything about all the Asian illegals that come through the ports or the eastern Europeans either. Even though the countries are no longer Communist the people still get a free pass. But then they're white.
There really should be no exemptions just like there shouldn’t for overtime, minimum wage laws, or unemployment. In fact, the people who need those the most are the jobs that are exempt!
Republicans on immigration: “Do as I SAY, not as I DO”.
Actually, that motto applies to their entire cultural positions on just about everything.
In a sane world we could have humane, intelligent immigration reform that would benefit everyone. We almost did.
But no, that would take away the republicans favorite punching bag - the immigrant.
Cruelty is the point.
When Adam Serwer wrote "Cruelty is the Point" after Trump was in office for a while, the clarity of what he wrote hit me hard. He compared hate filled MAGA to the old photos of white people laughing and grinning like hyenas at the lynching of Black people. Cruelty feeds these people. Greg Abbott is no different. Two mothers killed in the slaughter outside Houston had thrown their bodies over their children. They died saving their babies. But filth like Abbott has to ring the racist bell. It's "wink-wink-nothing to see here", they're "illegal". The incandescent rage I feel toward these ignorant, hate filled excuses for humans runs deep.
Adam Serwer is one of my favorite writers at The Atlantic, and he's been spot on about MAGA since 2016. The cruelty is the point.
Ditto for liking Adam Serwer.
While I agree with what you say about Abbott and his ilk, don’t let them harden your heart with hate. That is their goal. They’re hoping to spread of hate and fear for money and power. We must stand up with love and empathy so we call out their selfish, cruel motives, but don’t become like them in their ways of hate.
I will vote them out, and encourage everyone I interact with to do the same, but I’m careful not to let evil into my heart because it can make a home there.
I wasn’t talking about it from a superstitious “mind of its own” type thing. I was speaking about it becoming a way of thinking. It has been scientifically proven that those who write down 5 things they are grateful for at night begin to look for things during the day to be grateful for. I am just saying I don’t want to become a person whose so cynical and full of hate, that it leads to shooting people who ring the doorbell (ring any bells?). That’s it. Nothing superstitious about how the mind works.
I believe that Republicans have never had any intention of passing legislation to make life better for all Americans. The old Republican party was all about making the rich richer. The MAGAs finally realized this and rejected the old GOP. This is part of the reason for Trump's rise. Many of them also loved that instead of using dog whistles, he was overtly racist.
The GOP also learned with the Dobb's decision that getting their way on a wedge issue does not work to enhance their political power. I don't see them ever coming up with a solution to the immigration problem.
They aren’t into offering solutions. That was the GOP in the BT. They just would rather make you angry and afraid of everything so you’ll vote for them: crime, LGTBQ, your neighbor, your schools, “groomers” and the woke mob, immigrants, non-church going hippies, SUCCESSFUL economies, and the list goes on. They’ll never run out of boogeymen. Once you step outside the scare mongering the scales fall from your eyes and you hear the desperation.
The "anti-woke", i.e. GOP, solution to the immigration problem? Reinstate slavery for White Christian slave owners only.