• fidodo@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Immigrants are the only reason the US isn’t a total shit hole christo-fascist country. They’re people who actually want to be here and cross oceans to get here and work their asses off to achieve what they couldn’t do from where they were originally from. So much innovation and technology came from immigrants. So many companies were founded by immigrants. The people trying to stop immigrants are just lazy assholes who know that immigrants are harder working and better than them because they’re just relying on their generational wealth and deluding themselves into thinking they earned it because they don’t want to face up with how really pathetic they are.

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      6 months ago

      We could stop most undocumented migration tomorrow with 1 simple change, stiff penalties on companies that employ undocumented workers and have ICE investigate business owners for employing or contracting undocumented workers. You can literally visit almost any farm in the US and find 100s of undocumented workers being treated like shit.

      But instead, republicans like to focus all their efforts on the boarder. Why? Because the threat of expulsion makes for good slave labor.

      That’s why they are constantly worried about undocumented immigrants using social services. The don’t want their slaves educated or looked in on. They don’t want CPS asking “Hey, isn’t that child supposed to be in school? Why are they picking grapes right now?” So they constantly demonize and terrorize to make sure their slaves know “If you get too uppity, we’ll separate your family and send them back to the cartels.”