I agree this isn't getting fixed without Congress which means we either end up with an insane policy of the military rounding up anyone evangelicals don't like, or we get nothing. It's dumb and absurd and scary and helps literally no one. Well, ok it helps a few people. Those in the prison industrial complex and abusive agro companies. The former being sheriff's, cops, companies, judges, smugglers, and so on. It's like the War on Drugs. If it ever was fixed, too many people would all of a sudden be out of a job. But Biden's "solution" doesn't fix anything and instead punishes those coming here for help.
Biden was willing to “swallow” a bullshit GOP-written bill to at least move the needle in some direction-not-completely-awful, and Trump sabotaged it. With this 5th circuit and SCOTUS, what the F******** can anyone expect? So, if this keeps anyone from voting for Biden because his admin is doing its best on a sinking ship, does it make sense to hand it over to the guys that are boarding the lifeboats while steering us into the iceberg?
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-labor-market-impact-of-deportations/ Interesting study about how deportations affect US born workers. Short answer is, it isn’t just neutral, it actually hurts them. They used a govt program that was rolled out over a few years to compare counties that implemented the program to those that had not yet. The key point seems to be that there are two almost entirely separate job markets, one for those without papers, and one for the native born. Deportations are bad for the economy, and that ends up hurting native born workers even though theoretically it opens up jobs and therefore changes the supply-demand balance between workers and employers.
Seems about right. Goes back to jobs for slaves and jobs for indentured servants. Then we had rail construction and things like China man's luck. Capitalism is a beast that must be fed. However this xenophobic populism pops up every now and then to gum things up. It is weird that rural areas are often the most Republican and therefore the most for immigration regulations yet they're the same counties and areas that need the immigrants for farm work
It's not weird. It's hard to demonize "the other" when you eat at their restaurants and their kids know your kids.