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I’ve been assured all those crossing the border, living in hotels etc are here legally.
Are they suddenly illegal? I don’t remember that being part of the conversation.
Remember, they are here for a better life and do the jobs we don’t want to do.
Keeping the narrative straight must be difficult at times.
Hmmm… This first one won’t render. Here’s the headline:
US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers from deportation
Well the article said 800 people are losng their jobs in Emporia Kansas.
It mentioned 3,500 additoanl layoffs
and linked articles over 6,100 employees.
(That’s 10,400 that is just one company.)
Certainly you’d have no objection to the Trump adminsitaton deporting 10,000 so
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Oh and the Reuters article about “US farm groups want Trump to spare their workers?” It’s so-called (ahem)“Farm groups” yielded two statements in the article
- One from David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University.
- The other from “Dave Puglia, president and CEO of Western Growers,” except that Puglia’s bio reveals he is also not a farmer. He has a degree in journalism and his previous employer was . . . (drumroll) . . . . “served for seven years in the California Attorney General’s Office, first as press secretary and then as director of public affairs and communications.”
Why should we?
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Yes. Asylum seekers are not illegal.
No, asylum seekers are not suddenly illegal. Illegals are illegal.
Correct.
Seems super easy for you when you just make ■■■■ up.
I live in NJ and I’d be solidly in that 12%. I eat beef or pork probably every day. Even when I was a kid, sloppy joes, cheese steaks and cheeseburgers were a constant. I’m about an hour away from a beefy dinner right now. What I don’t eat is sugar. No ice cream, cakes, pies, chocolate, no sweets what so ever. I was thin as a rail my entire youth. Now I’m 5’11 190.
I’ve always loved that line. What a load of HS!!! Do people actually believe this? There is no such thing as jobs people don’t want to do. They are jobs people won’t do for the money offered. That can be said about any job.
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This is BS. Cheap labor is not keeping the cost of homes down. They could have no labor costs, and they’ll charge market rate. They’ll just not make as much profit.
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Well that’s a separate issue to discuss.
I was just helping out by giving examples of who might hire illegals. The two links are examples of self-confessing industries.
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Follow the conversation.
And nannies and landscapers!
Right. I was commenting on what they were saying in the links. Roofing and landscaping businesses as well.
For comparison. NYC Mayor Eric Adams is on CNBC right now,
(watching him as I type.)
He just said that there are 220,000 “asylum seekers” in NYC and that the city, which is feeding and housing them etc. at taxpayer expense, feels it is entitle to federal tax dollars to help with the expense.
I doubt sending THEM home will raise price of chicken nuggets.
My next door neighbor used to run a landscaping business. He was livid the day after he got a 33k fine for hiring illegals. Because now he has to pay his help about 5 bucks more an hour. This goes back to around the year 2000. He can’t raise his prices because of competition.
I often wonder why the authorities choose seemingly random businesses to fine. But leave most alone. Because they rarely enforce the law. But do so on occasion.
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I hear that is going to end soon, replaced with widespread blanket enforcement just like Eisenhower and other presidents did and and it appears we are all in agreement ending that will be a good thing.
It’s sad that modern the articles are lacking any specific reason for the closures and layoffs.
In fairness, the article from @Nemesis provided i a round about way the same information as appears on the chart below. (Adjusted for inflation, US pork consumptionis down 12% vs pre-pandemic.) They just did not make the point very clear.
I have noticed this too! Never had gluten problems as kid now I have celiac. Aging sucks.
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Sorry to hear that. Yeah getting older does suck.
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