Dear, dear. What has the world come to?
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2024
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Nice, by the book. The fascist admin guide as seen in most of Europe, recently
Undocumented Immigrants Contribute Nearly $100 Billion in Taxes a Year
If he actually succeeds in doing this, guess who’s going to be made to fill in that hole.
If you lived in the 80's, you know where you're going with this.
Prisons. Good old indentured servitude.
Get ready for more jaywalking arrests.
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This is step one to collapsing Social Security and Medicare.
Knee cap all the funding from folks who never collect on it, then say, see? It’s collapsing earlier than we thought.
Illegals aren't growing crops, prisons step in, now prisons are growing crops, now prisons are profiteering from growing crops, higher food prices despite the ""free"" labor as they have conflicts with farmers...
messy messy messy situation
Great if you own a prison, tho.
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Obviously the answer is to tax billionaires, but that's never going to happen.
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Drive through rural America and see how many underpopulated small towns there are. Shuttered businesses for lack of customers. Abandoned buildings. These places need people.
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How are people going to be selected for deportation? This feels eerily like what Hitler started doing with Jews.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/us/politics/denaturalization-immigrants-justice-department.html
Looks like they're gonna strip citizenship from "terrorists, war criminals, sex offenders and other fraudsters who illegally obtained naturalization"
Whatever "fraudsters" means... Made a mistake on the citizen application? FRAUDSTER! DEPORTED! Do all of your documents have exactly the same name, middle name, and spelling? No?? IDENTITY THIEF! DEPORTED!
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