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People here are overcomplicating the issue. I work in a predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Chicago, where modest homes line the streets, each with a pickup truck or SUV parked out front. The residents here have earned their slice of the American Dream through hard work in local factories. Bringing in workers willing to take those same jobs for significantly lower wages threatens to undermine everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.
Comment by caveatlector73 at 29/11/2024 at 16:10 UTC*
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I absolutely understand what you are saying. I believe they do deserve what they have worked so hard for, but it's not newcomers who are paying lower wages. They are targeting the wrong people.
Which would be a very good reason to push for comprehensive immigration reform - like the Lankford bill Trump killed. Seriously. If people want comprehensive immigration reform that benefits them, then they have to lobby and vote for it if they can.
Call me a skeptic, but I'm not sure the incoming administration has in mind quite what they are hoping for. Lashing out at people who have not done a person any harm seems a little counterintuitive. But, then I was taught from the time I was small that life is not fair and not a level playing field. Expecting otherwise is generally a recipe for bitterness.