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I agree. It seems like the goal is not reducing illegal immigration, but creating fear. This is why they’re coming after lawful residents for things like political speech.
TIL vandalism is speech
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She has publicly stated she is a cofounder of the company. In order to qualify for the TN visa there has to be a legitimate employer-employee relationship, and as cofounder, that makes that impossible. At the very least this makes her subject to detainment for possible immigration fraud.
Founders/cofounders are generally legally and legitimately employees of the firms they were involved in founding. Yes, if she was the sole or controlling owner, this would be an issue. But “cofounder” and “sole owner” are... not the same thing.
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Ah, even easier then, just tell her to turn around.
USCBP can't deport someone to a country they aren't a citizen of. Mexico doesn't want that problem dumped on them.
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Isn't it obvious that this has more to do with oligarchs hoarding wealth than it does with "being full" of immigrants? Immigrants are nowhere near numerous enough to be doing the kind of damage you claim, but the extremely wealthy do have a stranglehold on resources.
It's both. And immigrants help the wealthy class become even richer by providing cheap labor while everyone makes up the rest in social security payments.
You know who's not paying their fair share into social security in any country? It's the rich, yo! It's the rich! By a wide margin!
To be perfectly clear, I don't care one way or the other about more immigration or less immigration.
What I am saying is that compound interest and the ability to purchase assets is going to continue to draw wealth away from everyone except the ultra wealthy, and immigration policy has effectively nothing to do with that.
Calling on everyone to hate each other is going to prevent us from acting together to solve this problem. We could instead work together, unionize, vote for policies and politicians that won't let the ultra wealthy continue to hoard their gold like dragons.
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People would literally rather die impoverished, uncared for, and with no dignity in a failing system than maybe have a few brown people around who casually speak a different language and yet, by the testimony of everyone I've ever asked work ten times harder than any local for literally anything. Like, it's not a perfect solution, there are growing pains, but an adult someone else paid to give a high school education…
> People would literally rather die impoverished, uncared for, and with no dignity in a failing system False equivalence. You don't have to give up your country to fix it. > than maybe have a few brown people around who casually speak a different language The state of most larger european cities is already well beyond that, bringing with it tons of problems. > "work ten times harder than any local for literally anyth…
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Are you interested in hearing from the perspective of a trans person who mostly doesn't agree with the person you've been replying to, but does feel there's gaps in your perspective here? I ask this way especially because I don't know if you'll actually see this since I see one of the comments is flagged, and given how it's been most of a day already.
I would be very interested, thank you. The flag is probably justified since HN is not really the place for these culture war things :) but I'm genuinely trying to understand the perspective here, because it does seem like a big gap between my understanding (the Democratic party has moved left on these issues) and theirs (the Democratic party is just playing defense on these issues).
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ACAB
"The bishop's smile, a gilded, hollow thing, hides taxman's greed, and whispers of the king; the knight's sworn oath, a rusted, broken chain, while village elders plot for whispered, selfish gain; no judge's word, nor lord's decree rings true, in thirteen twelve, what's left for us to do?"
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There is absolutely no reason to think illegal border crossings were ever much higher than they are today.
This does not seem to be a disputed fact that there were a massive increase in the number of border crossings under Biden.