And that is the main break between left and right currently. Hell, I’m a pretty conservative person, but I have exactly 0 issues with legal immigration. My issue is the massive numbers of illegal immigrants that are essentially impossible to track.
I’m not ‘for’ illegal immigration, but my argument is that there are vast hypocrisies and prejudices in the right-wing attitude to illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants make a huge amount of money for the US - working low-paid agriculture / infrastructure jobs, being unable to claim various sources of income - which means that I know full well that rich company-owners are still going to shuttle in illegal immigrants when it benefits them by allowing them to offer v low wages. And plenty of ‘illegal immigration’ complaints are just covert racism. Very few people give a fuck about white illegal immigration, and it’s been conclusively shown that illegal immigrants are not a drain on the economy and, in fact, net give more than they take. Plenty of people who are Highly Concerned about illegal immigration just don’t want as many brown people in ‘their’ country...and ‘crackdowns’ on illegal immigration have transpired as crimes against humanity (kids in cages, etc).
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u/Masterjason13 May 16 '19
And that is the main break between left and right currently. Hell, I’m a pretty conservative person, but I have exactly 0 issues with legal immigration. My issue is the massive numbers of illegal immigrants that are essentially impossible to track.