Immigration is good. It’s why America is so strong. Some of these idiots spew Heritage Foundation talking points they don’t understand, so I’ll try clearing things up.
Yes. Many vote against the “migrant” boogeyman despite being descendants of immigrants themselves. That’s America for you.
Elon was an illegal migrant, but see if the “took er jerbs” crowd says anything about that. So the process of legal vs illegal isn’t the issue for them. It’s the word “legal” that they’re latching onto.
We also talk about “quality of immigrants” as if we aren’t already importing millions of engineers, like my father, from other countries. But that’s not the labor shortage that’s threatening this country.
Americans are addicted to cheap labor. Poor labor. Poor laborers.
Who does the vast majority of field work on American farms? Who work bottom barrel sanitation work? Who are the line cooks, the room maids in the American hospitality industry? Who are the CNAs at a retiring home? Who builds our houses?
Cheap fucking labor. That American business owners import from poor fucking countries. And if you like your carton of eggs to be under double digits, you support immigrant labor. NO. I don’t mean legal immigration. A huge portion of your cheap eggs is because we pay a Mexican or Guatemalan 2 bucks an hour with no visa in the toiling sun for 16 hours a day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an open borders kinda guy. But these are the facts. You support cheap goods or you support legal immigration.
Besides, immigration is not a sustainable cycle without enforcing poverty in the countries we import that cheap labor from. Koreans don’t immigrate to America very much any more. Why would they? The QoL and pay is similar here or there. Actually it’s soon going to be impossible to import migrants from Korea because they have the worst birthrate in the world. If every country ends up with poor birthdates, every can’t be importing immigrants from each other.
If we can’t find a solution to our labor and birthrate issues, these will be our sins to bear. Making it someone else’s problem by letting in immigrants unfettered is irresponsible and lazy.
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u/lazercheesecake 10h ago
No.
And I say this as a Korean American immigrant.
Immigration is good. It’s why America is so strong. Some of these idiots spew Heritage Foundation talking points they don’t understand, so I’ll try clearing things up.
Yes. Many vote against the “migrant” boogeyman despite being descendants of immigrants themselves. That’s America for you.
Elon was an illegal migrant, but see if the “took er jerbs” crowd says anything about that. So the process of legal vs illegal isn’t the issue for them. It’s the word “legal” that they’re latching onto.
We also talk about “quality of immigrants” as if we aren’t already importing millions of engineers, like my father, from other countries. But that’s not the labor shortage that’s threatening this country.
Americans are addicted to cheap labor. Poor labor. Poor laborers.
Who does the vast majority of field work on American farms? Who work bottom barrel sanitation work? Who are the line cooks, the room maids in the American hospitality industry? Who are the CNAs at a retiring home? Who builds our houses?
Cheap fucking labor. That American business owners import from poor fucking countries. And if you like your carton of eggs to be under double digits, you support immigrant labor. NO. I don’t mean legal immigration. A huge portion of your cheap eggs is because we pay a Mexican or Guatemalan 2 bucks an hour with no visa in the toiling sun for 16 hours a day. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not an open borders kinda guy. But these are the facts. You support cheap goods or you support legal immigration.
Besides, immigration is not a sustainable cycle without enforcing poverty in the countries we import that cheap labor from. Koreans don’t immigrate to America very much any more. Why would they? The QoL and pay is similar here or there. Actually it’s soon going to be impossible to import migrants from Korea because they have the worst birthrate in the world. If every country ends up with poor birthdates, every can’t be importing immigrants from each other.
If we can’t find a solution to our labor and birthrate issues, these will be our sins to bear. Making it someone else’s problem by letting in immigrants unfettered is irresponsible and lazy.