There are only 2 million unemployed Americans right now. Most of the illegal immigrants have jobs and fill in the gaps, such as working on farms and factories. If the 20 million illegal immigrants are deported, want that create a massive laborer shortage? Won’t the work follow the workers to Mexico?
That’s a fair point. Considering I recently explained to someone else recently that at this 11th hour before the election we can’t expect to shift public opinion on the issues, merely carve the largest coalition out of where the electorate stands at present, then I guess I’ll eat my words. Hopefully this narrative gains traction over the next “activist” cycle where we attempt to actually influence public opinion following the election.
Republican inroads with the Hispanic population is sad. It seemed to initially begin out of Cuban expats, but now their rhetoric has picked up with the southwest population. So sad to see, for there is so much misinformation that they’re ultimately kicking the ladder out from behind their own (or parents, grandparents’) journeys.
exactly. we changed dance partners once (a needed change - biden was likely to give trump a squeaker victory) and now we kinda have to dance with the “2nd one we done brung”.
wish special interest money had not knocked off progressives in the primary. just have to hope that remaining progressive voices has some amount of backchannel influence and I think there is cause for that hope.