0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Bell_curve 10 Feb \ parent \ on: Does the Economy Need Migrants? and related discussion econ
Growth of Democrat voters is a dealbreaker.
Hispanics have the second largest incarceration rate in USA.
25 to 30 percent of prison population is foreign born.
9-11 terrorists had expired tourist visas.
Regarding population growth, USA population is currently 330 million. How much growth can we support? 1 billion?
TBC, I'm not condoning it. I am trying to describe the incentives. US population (based on birth rates) is set to decline without immigration. Turns out when you saddle people expanding debt, diminishing wages, and rising cost of living, they don't want to reproduce.
Crime is good for a police state. They give you the problem and the solution, which is always the expansion of state administrative powers.
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The main incentive is importing left wing voters. I have a friend whose wife came illegally from Guatemala. Now she is a citizen who votes left. This isn’t right. Total BS she can vote
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I hate the thing those do...is exactly what they want. You keep thinking its the politicians and the vote that matters, while the unelected administrative state marches on growing larger and larger and more insulated from election outcomes.
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The country has since inception extended the right to vote from non-citizens to citizens, who arrive by various means. If you're objecting, what it means to be a citizen is where you can direct your objections.
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Not from Mexico. For railroad workers we imported Chinese labor after 1862 , the transcontinental railroad act.
We used to have Chinese exclusion act 1882 and oriental exclusion act which were repealed in 1957.
We have never encouraged illegal immigration until recently. Before there was a semblance of law. Now we don’t pretend- it’s shameless and brazen.
Before 1914 we had open immigration from mostly Europe because there was no income tax and no welfare benefits.
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The biden open border policy may seem bizarre or misguided but it is an intenional plan to expand administrative powers in service of the expansion of the bureaucratic police state. Grandpa Joe cant chew his food, much less think of a great plan to expand the bureaucratic state. This is far beyond elected officials. Our democracy is an illusion.
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I agree the deep state, administrative state is a big problem. How does open immigration fit? Serious question
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