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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Nov \ on: The Daily Zap — Latest News and Updates alter_native
My hope for how mass deportations will play out is that it is confined to criminals (for crimes other than illegal entry).
There's a strong and disturbing desire for rounding them all up and deporting them, though. Since that's logistically impossible, there will have to be some prioritization.
This can be a very good approach but I doubt the high profile criminals would escape somehow. Politics sucks when it comes to do the right thing at the right time.
For fun I was looking at demographics for USA and I found out that the density is quite low. It's actually around 15 times lower to India's. That means US needs manpower. If you throw out millions, be ready to face a crisis of manforce for smaller jobs. Trump really needs to be very smart in his decisions for any sort of deportations.
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That assumes the people being thrown out are working. Many (not most) are on welfare or engaged in criminal activity. There are plenty of those to fill America's deportation capacity.
It's also worth noting that America's agriculture lobby is very powerful. They'll come up with a new work visa system before they deport those ag workers.
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America's agriculture lobby is very powerful.
I didn't know that. I only know that US farmers are very rich so they can be powerful. I don't think Trump is gonna go at this situation blindly. He made a lot of promises to be back in power, he can fulfill those promises or choose not to, or can be rational or practical in his orders. He'll definitely have many heads who'll suggest him how to go about it and hopefully they have the same reasoning as yours - throwing criminals out of US.
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The nice thing for Trump is that the current regime has been so bad that he can make a lot of obvious improvements, without ever getting to anything extreme.
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I agree. Do you see what stupid decisions Biden is making now. He's allowed long range weapons for Ukraine even when Pentagon didn't want it. Is he trying to make matters worse for Trump or he's just gone mad?
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The regime is trying to get us embroiled in a hot war with Russia, because that will be harder for Trump to withdraw from.
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