We need more immigrants, not fewer. We don’t have enough medical workers (caregivers and nurses primarily), construction workers, skilled labor (plumbing, electricians, etc.).

We need to fix our system, allowing in those we need, for the time we need them, and yes - deport those who are not here legally. I do however welcome a process (during this reform and transition) for those here illegally to have preferential treatment for legal work visas for which they are qualified. Also special treatment / status for those who have been here most of their lives.

I do think we should make legal immigration easier.

who voted for trump by 75%.

I can see the necessity of restricting entry of something, but I'm totally against deporting people who have lived here if just for a few years and contributed to society.

Making immigration a huge issue.

slippery slope there once the apparati is in place.

Your documentation is no longer valid because we don't like the country you came from or your religion or something you said, so off you go.

Your parents weren't properly documented? Your citizenship isn't valid, so off you go.

Member of a terrorist org like blm or antifa (or just sympathize, whatever that means), lost your right to citizenship, off you go.

But before that you will lose your rights to vote, to work, to receive any assistance, to have a bank account or credit card, to have a drivers license, or own property.

If you commit a crime while under suspended rights, you are gone.

is an obvious method to dampen the number of undocumented immigrants.

The investigation and prosecution could be viewed as a jobs program as to be effective as the reach would need to be broad. 😜

Go after corporations. Perhaps large corporations could be treated on something similar to class action.

Go after small business such as roofers and yard care. Substantial fines that make hiring illegal workers non-economic.

Doubt that anything of effective scope and depth is likely.

Many of whom occupy Trump Towers and various Trump what-nots.

They support a man who tried to overthrow the U.S. government. They are treasonous traitors and fascist scum.

They have jobs that contribute to, and support, our economy.
It would be a devastating blow to our economy to engage in mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.
Can you imagine the thousands of businesses that would close, and the amount of fruit and vegetables that would rot in the fields without them?
The price of food would rise dramatically, as would many other goods and services we rely on. Inflation could go back to pandemic levels.

This deportation mentality is insane.

the eldercare and home healthcare aids they have relied upon, their house cleaners, their lawn maintenance and snow removal, the prices of fresh produce at their local grocery store, their child's playmates at school, their sweet neighbor of many years down the street that has occasionally come to their aid...

are already lamenting the loss of undocumented immigrants but of course it's too late now that many have been fired and/or scared off by their crackdown.

in its labor force! These are uneducated people.

Gross

i think it's gross Axios used Penn, and I think it's worth looking more closely at the poll to see if it is indeed another shitty push poll.

Who will fill the shortages of medical workers? Who will contribute to SS for retirees? It is immigrants who have bolstered our economy.

More funds are being diverted from programs for this purpose. Abbott's PR campaign is working.

Texas State government sucks by any measure.

There have also been some problems with the migrants behavior, it is many little ways people are starting to feel this. It isn't like it is a small amount of money, NYC spent $1.45 billion in 2023 to care for the undocumented. The right is going after low hanging fruit, some people are living on the edge, the idea that the money should be spent on them instead finds support very easily.

of allowing the border patrol (FEDS) to control the situation they are actually using Texas taxpayer money to bus/fly these folks to Blue cities around the nation (BTW - aren't most cities Blue?).

Were is not for them this situation would be forced on Congress to do something instead of using immigration for political purposes - which is the only reason they are doing it.

NYC immigrant problem is another example of the chaos that the GOP uses (quite effectively) to further their political agenda.

Sigh... WTF! It's inscribed on the Statue Of Liberty you racist fucks!

What of their US-born spouses and children? Do these simpletons understand the complexity of the situation? "Round 'em up and ship 'em out! Uh huh!" What we need is more administrators to clear the backlog of cases. Make more citizens and fix the problem.

think that is when the first immigrantion laws were written.

Place gonna be empty in the Mid-West, Southern and Western states.

But Mass Media is paid off by the GOP as we heard in court.

And perform a special Census.