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Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 06:10 AM Jun 2018

There is a sense in which America should feel blessed to have its illegal immigration "problem"...

The disgusting thing about all this is that immigrants, legal or not, are usually the hardest working of all labour groups.

It’s often talked about how America is a nation of immigrants. But less often mentioned are the real contributions that all those illegal immigrants are bringing to the economy. Indeed if you actually rounded up and deported ALL the illegal immigrants, many a business would suddenly be thrown into crisis. Immigrants, legal and illegal, harvest our crops, cook our food, clean our rooms, mow our lawns, build our homes, make our clothes, drive us around, and more.

This doesn’t mean I think we should be using them as a form of second class slave labour, which we sadly do. BUT despite the fact that we do, millions still brave death and starvation to come to these shores because the opportunities here are STILL better than back home.

And no they are not taking white peoples jobs because very few white people want any of those jobs. They are back breaking, low paying, gruelling jobs. The only people who tend to stick to those kinds of jobs for long are those who have had the experience of a life even worse.

These are people willing to risk life and limb, and even their children, to find a better life in a new country picking fruit 60 hours a week till their fingers bleed so that their families can have it better.

And we thank them by calling them rapists, murderers, imprisoning their children, threatening their very existence.

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There is a sense in which America should feel blessed to have its illegal immigration "problem"... (Original Post) Locut0s Jun 2018 OP
We don't know Varaddem Jun 2018 #1
What impact does it have on the economies of their home countries? MichMan Jun 2018 #2

Varaddem

(432 posts)
1. We don't know
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 06:29 AM
Jun 2018

We don’t know The conditions that they’re leaving. Are asylum seekers illegal? We are getting no news from Honduras El Salvador or Guatemala except that they put in horrible leaders.Are we still meddling down there or did we hang them out to dry. Remember we took human rights out of the state department goals

MichMan

(12,002 posts)
2. What impact does it have on the economies of their home countries?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 07:33 AM
Jun 2018

Since it is a given that the large number of hard working industrious immigrants contribute to our economy is many ways, it would also stand to reason that the economies of their home countries have suffered without their presence.


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