CNBC Shock Poll: 73% of Americans Now Support Militarizing the Border

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• Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Illegals are illegal. Even if they claim asylum. Claiming something does not mean you are that something. If I tell a democrat that I am a god, does that make it true? DeSantis signed the law that all employers with 25 or more employees use E-Verify from Senate Bill 1718 back in May 2023. So far, it is not a doomsday situation with the Florida economy that the illegal lovers claim it would be. The refugee system needs to be reformed. Most Americans have common sense.

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  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jesus turned his back on the needy.

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    • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You should help good people. Just because you are needy does not make you a good person.

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• boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Now let’s talk about the abject fear mongering of places like Fox and Breitbart about illegal immigrants over time and see if we can figure out why the number may appear to be increasing.

  Of course, Republicans also won’t admit that the entire system needs migrant labor to keep costs low. Without an exploitable underclass, the entire agricultural industry falls apart because Americans don’t want to pick vegetables for pennies. Let’s watch food prices if the promise of mass deportations comes to pass and see how many people are “very supportive” of that knock-on effect.

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  • the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem is that the agricultural industry basically has a slave caste as its backbone. There will be no lasting solution as long as that’s true. Dismantling that system was good for America back in the 1800s, and it would be good if it happened again today.

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    • boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t get me wrong - I agree that it being built on an exploitable underclass is bad, but I highly doubt concerns over that is the driving factor behind the calls for mass deportations by the majority of people.

      Furthermore, all mass deportation will do is burn a mountain of money on kicking out people who pay things like sales tax while also driving out their labor. Would it not make more sense to simply offer a path to citizenship to the people who clearly wish to work and give them the legal protections they should have AND get them paying taxes and integrating into society as full US citizens?

      There’s no reason to harm innocent people if your only concern is about “fixing the problem of a slave caste,” especially when what I have said is essentially what we did the last time we got rid of one (Jim Crow, share cropping, etc. notwithstanding).

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think illegal immigration is a real problem, but you make a good point here.

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No one is going to go through the decade-long legal immigration process to work on a farm for federal minimum wage with no health insurance.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not even a real problem that they’re reacting towards. This is all a manufactured distraction.

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• the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nearly 3/4 of Americans support deporting all illegal immigrants. After the reform of the asylum process, people are pretty angry.

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  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What poll is that?

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    • the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My mistake, I’ll edit the comment. The figure is 6 in 10 registered voters. Numbers vary depending on how it’s phrased.

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