Re: Border Crisis: What exactly is the justification for not

Smiling Tiger® · 2023-09-21T19:22:54.235Z

securing the border, stopping the influx of illegal entry, and controlling (as much as possible) who gets in? I know it's asking a lot, but please try to resist the urge to deflect, redirect, or change the subject.

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We need their labor. Plain and simple. In return we get a

Sep 21, 2023, 4:03 PM

bigger house, a nicer yard, a cleaner house, cheaper produce, cheaper processed meats, etc.

BUT, the most important reason we need them here, working, harder, for less money, illegally, is because their labor deflates the prices of many common goods and services Americans rely on. They deflate the value of new homes, and many other things. That prevents inflation, makes debt cheaper, so we can issue more debt to buy more votes (Congress), and more and even bigger houses. Rinse and repeat.

We have a glut of college educated Americans who have no interest in manual labor jobs or careers. We have a dearth of Americans willing to do those hard jobs. No one with a college degree wants to pick lettuce. But the lettuce needs to be picked nonetheless, by SOMEONE. We have sold successive generations on the idea that a college degree is the key to being rich. So kids go into hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt, to get that degree, so they start working in a career NOT picking lettuce. And at the end of the day, with inflation roaring back, the return on the investment in college will not pay off.

I remember my father, decades ago, in the 60's and 70's, fresh out of Clemson with his degree, working in insurance, he'd see truck drivers making 5-6+ TIMES as much money as he did. We devalued the manual labor jobs so much by importing illegal labor that we flipped that situation. But now the tide has changed with inflation returning. The system is crumbling under the weight of the pandemic. We are now importing more from Mexico than China. That's a lot less "stuff" we're getting with cheap, dollar-leveraged "free trade". So prices climb as supply drops.

Is what it is I guess. Sad though that 90% of Americans have no clue about this aspect of illegal immigrants. Besides, seeing this light highlights our vulnerability and diminishes the perception that we're the world's strongest economy. We are, on paper, but in reality, if we had to stand on our own two feet, we'd be toast.

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Border Crisis: What exactly is the justification for not

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That's not justification, which is what I'm asking.

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There is no justification for not securing it.

Was the existing legal process not providing enough

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We need their labor. Plain and simple. In return we get a

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