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Suzie's avatar

How about Congress confronting that reality first? The American people noticed it way back in 2016, thus “Build the Wall” sweeping Trump to victory.

The Republicans did absolutely nothing - zip,zero, nada - to counter the invasion of our borders under Biden. Where were the lawsuits brought by Republicans to push back on and thwart the thousands of illegal EO’s and actions perpetrated by the Dems all four of those years.? Nowhere, because they never happened.

It took Trump to smash through and force it to an end.

We need to completely replace those so-called representatives we have currently in Congress. They are worse than worthless. They are part of the problem.

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Michael LeBrun's avatar

One thing that is always overlooked is that our state of unregulated immigration benefits certain individuals.

Take Texas for example. Texas screams about undocumented workers, yet a full 8% of the workforce in Texas is undocumented (fwd.us). The state does nothing about these million workers it utilizes.

In 2004, President George W. Bush proposed a guest worker program - a significant immigration reform measure that would give us the workers we need but not the permanent social burden they represent. Republicans (the President's own party) voted it down.

Why doesn't Texas do something about undocumented workers? Why would Congress vote immigration reform down? Simple - the current system has benefits for powerful people. The powerful receive hard and sometimes dangerous work done for below market value. If we regulated undocumented immigration, there would be minimums to pay and safety regulations to be enforced. Right now, under the table is simply more profitable.

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