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Ok, then why aren't those people prosecuted?
Comment by eidetic at 25/01/2025 at 08:19 UTC*
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Because the whole thing is a bullshit bogeyman meant to scare people and to act as a misdirection.
Beyond that, a lot of industries that hire these undocumented workers are often highly dependent on them to keep prices low by keeping their wages low. And because in large part, they are often doing jobs that many legal citizens think themselves too good for.
If you thought "inflation" on groceries was bad now, wait until a significant portion of the workforce doing the manual agricultural labor is no longer available.
But mostly it's because this whole immigration thing is a bullshit topic by Republicans to create an "other", a target to blame all the troubles in society. Crime? It's all those illegal aliens!!! Lack of jobs? Illegal aliens! Pet gone missing? Illegal immigrants are eating them!
It's all a distraction, and it's bullshit. And Republicans know it. Don't forget that the democrats caved on the immigration bill and basically gave the Republicans everything they wanted in the bill, but then suddenly they, in their own fucking words, "didn't want to give the democrats a win" so they quashed the bill. Also because they're not so much interested in solving this alleged problem, because then they can't campaign on it and use it as a bogeyman. This is what *every* fascist government does, they have their in group, and then everyone else is an "other" and all of society's woes are blamed on them. Never mind the fact that in oh so many cases there's no possible way those small populations of others could somehow account for all of society's woes, but there you have it. I mean look at welfare. There's a lot more white people on welfare, but it's always inner city "welfare queens" that are the focus of their ire. They have no problem with corporate welfare either, but scream and bitch about any kind of program meant to give lower income minorities any kind of help.
Finally, and related to that, you can't discount the racism in effect here. Notice all the concern for illegal immigrants is always about those who aren't white. They don't give a shit about the white immigrants overstaying their visas, and they don't want to actually prosecute the predominantly white business owners who are hiring them.