• LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to just let the migrants in and give them jobs

    unironically like this is kinda stupid this is a fuck huge country

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This has been proven true literally every time economists have checked. Immigration makes an economy bigger, which benefits everyone. Our current immigration regime though requires that undocumented migrants be constantly under threat of deportation, which allows them to be exploited harder than the average american because they can't complain without being kicked out.

      • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yep. In this case immigrants aren't being used to bolster labor power and build a better world, they're being used as a reserve army of labor to drive down wages for citizens and generate massive profit for companies that hire them with essentially no labor rights (usually agricultural sector).

    • yukofrezzeda [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      They are scared shitless of the type of instability that might kick off after what happened in Europe. Especially since both parties buy into the idea the migrants would suppress wages even further.

      • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        this entire political and economic system is dumb real world problems are too hard and complicated

    • Haste_Hall [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      They're just doing it in Del Rio where the Haitians are. Really, this is just posturing because Abbott's approval ratings are shit and he's desperate.

    • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Depends on what you value. If you value white hegemony and race based hierarchy, then an exorbitant waste of money spent on brutalizing and dehumanizing people is probably worth it to you. And if you internalize that racial hierarchy, you find some other excuse.

  • TankieDukakis [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Amerikkka is one bad day away from digging a ditch, filling it with cash, and lighting it on fire while flipping off a poor person

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    steel

    actually there's a lot of plastic and composites in vehicles these days

  • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    :what-the-hell: jesus christ the message they're trying to send

    :top-cop: do not come

  • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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    3 years ago

    Wait if all the cars are down there making a wall, who is patroling the streets?

    COME ON CHAPOS OUR CRIME WAVE STARTS NOW!

  • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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    edit-2
    3 years ago

    Me robbing every bank in Texas twice and getting away with it b/c pigs are too busy wasting their time
    :sicko-hexbear:
    (Joking, obviously)

    • RedArmor [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      “Damn Mexicans coming here to take our $15 an hour jobs from hardworking (white) Americans!”

  • Sushi_Desires
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    3 years ago

    🌊 vote blue no matter who 🌊

    :desolate:

  • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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    3 years ago

    Lmao just need some monster cars to start rolling over them and fireworks and shit

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Just the sheer scope of waste on display, in order to make a few miserable people's lives a little harder.

      :amerikkka:

  • newmou [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Couldn’t they use like half the cars by pointing them in intersecting angles haha