The former president also told NBC News that spending billions to execute mass deportations of undocumented immigrants is justified because allowing them to remain would cost more.
I know plenty about it and it would be very different if I were in charge, but that’s beside the point. What I’m saying is that the damage to the USA from an overly restrictive immigration policy is not “irreparable” because any immigrants denied or deported now can easily be replaced by other immigrants later. I don’t anticipate a scenario where the USA wants to allow in more immigrants but no one wants to come. (Even if that did happen, I’m not sure accepting immigrants in advance would help because they can just leave if it gets so bad here.)
I’m dealing with the legal immigration system right now. Your claim that we can “easily” replace anybody with more immigrant is laughable. It’s like a 4 year waitlist right now.
When I say “we” I mean the US government or the nation as a whole. Right now you or I as individuals cannot easily have people immigrate legally because the government has deliberately made it difficult. If the government wanted to replace a bunch of deported people, it could change the rules about legal immigration. There are so many people who want to immigrate legally but aren’t allowed to that by changing the rules, the government could get as many immigrants as it could want.
If the government wanted that, they’d have been making steps towards that goal over the last several years. Instead, they’re thwarting any attempts at a path to citizenship for the people already doing these jobs and actively contributing to our economy.
Do you support hefty prison sentences for anyone caught hiring undocumented immigrants?
You clearly support deportation of immigrants. Please correct me if my assumption based on your repeated, explicit statements is incorrect.
So if you think immigrant workers are evil and should be prevented, that makes the white people who exploit and profiteer from their labor an entire order of magnitude more evil, right? Therefore we should cut the problem off at the source?
