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Fay Reid's avatar

Thank you, Graham. The point they all ignore is the most important. GREED. Immigrants enter the US to take employment in LOW PAYING jobs, because Americans are not willing to take these jobs at the shitty wages offered. The excuse from agribusiness, the clothing, housing construction industries is always the same, we need this cheap. disposable labor, to keep food, clothing and housing affordable. Yeah, right! The cost of food keeps steadily rising regardless of labor costs because of the greedy corporations who set food prices in the end. The cost of keeping our food clean is also an added cost, because of the FDA outbreaks of salmonella and Escherichia coli are kept under control if not extinct [and under control of trump slime and brain worm kennedy - that too may go away]

The reason trump slime and his maggots are able to get away with treating Hispanics as less than human is they look and talk differently from us pale skinned Americans. You can bet your bottom dollar that if we don't take Congress away from the MAGA maggots next year the next trump slime war will be against the Muslims followed by African African Americans, followed by pale skinned women. What they want is a social structure all the way back to fiefdoms.

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Graham Vincent's avatar

The old saying, follow the money. Well, that's what low-paid immigrants also do, albeit impelled by danger.

We have two parties here: the wealthy who fear no danger but follow the money, and the poor who fear much danger and also follow the money. The former follow the money despite the absence of danger, and the latter follow it because of the existence of danger. And that distinguishes greed from necessity.

Where is this going? Imagine all "foreigners" have been shipped out of the US, all industry has been resettled in the US, every white man has a white wife and a white job. Is that the final scenario? The prisons bursting to overflowing with black incarcerated persons, and no entry signs at the borders? I wonder at what point slavery will be re-enacted. Because that would surely be a short-cut method to achieving all this. Re-enact slavery.

The underlying motives form a big picture that's hard to grasp: we almost need to zoom out to a distance that only the James Webb telescope could comprehend to fully understand the whys and the wherefores of current policy. I think there will soon come a point where those who voted for Trump realise that, beyond satisfying their innate hatreds and prejudices, the administration is delivering nothing for them, but the prospect of, perhaps, a position as a slave overseer. It will be a terrible civil war, because, on both sides of the divide, God will be with them.

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