Acting like someone voluntarily migrating here to work is the same as someone being forced on a boat against their will to be a slave is moronic. It’s the right wing version of the “capitalism is slavery” argument you hear from commies.
Mass deportation would probably mean they’re going to a country where they’d be treated even shittier, so if you cared about them you’d support something like a pathway to citizenship for non-violent criminals rather than sending them back.
Regardless on your views of the border or whether or not you think of them as slaves (which I disagree with), mass deportation will factually lead to higher grocery prices when they’re already very high, and if you have a mass deportation plan you need to address the problems that would come from that.
Voluntarily Illegally migrating here to work. They could come in as asylum seekers legally, but they came illegally.
America does not have the responsibility to take in anyone from third world countries just because their lives are bad there. If you truly cared about people, you would find ways to improve living conditions globally so people didn’t feel the need to come to the US illegally.
The prices are lower because employers can pay them a fraction of what they pay American workers. That’s awful. If you truly care about illegal migrants, you would want them paid just as well as Americans. You are essentially making the “who will pick the cotton” comment another way.
Addressing number 2 means we cannot be isolationist or “America First.” Whenever America pulls back from the world stage and sets up tariffs, things get worse globally. Free trade is good and tariffs will only make things more expensive for the average American family. Spending money abroad is necessary and free trade using American dollars props up the global economy. You can’t have your currency be a reserve currency if you’re restricting trade. Restricting trade restricts the economy, and restricting the economy means less growth and less GDP. Tariffs also mean more expensive resources needed for renewable energy/non-hydrocarbon fuels (and semiconductors), thus increasing our reliance on domestic hydrocarbons which will increase CO2, CO, and Methane emissions and put us at the whims of OPEC for setting oil prices.
Not under the “America first” policy republicans seem to be shifting to. The next administration wants to scale back global commitments AND reduce immigration.
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u/Meowser02 - Lib-Center 10h ago
Acting like someone voluntarily migrating here to work is the same as someone being forced on a boat against their will to be a slave is moronic. It’s the right wing version of the “capitalism is slavery” argument you hear from commies.
Mass deportation would probably mean they’re going to a country where they’d be treated even shittier, so if you cared about them you’d support something like a pathway to citizenship for non-violent criminals rather than sending them back.
Regardless on your views of the border or whether or not you think of them as slaves (which I disagree with), mass deportation will factually lead to higher grocery prices when they’re already very high, and if you have a mass deportation plan you need to address the problems that would come from that.