There are only 2 million unemployed Americans right now. Most of the illegal immigrants have jobs and fill in the gaps, such as working on farms and factories. If the 20 million illegal immigrants are deported, won’t that create a massive laborer shortage? Won’t the work follow the workers to Mexico?
I wish Democrats at the convention would’ve made the fact loud and clear that without undocumented immigrants, grocery prices would soar. In fact in every respect, these immigrants have a net-positive contribution to our economy while committing less crime than white American citizens.
While true, they also don’t vote. I think in the past democrats have courted immigration as a proxy for the Hispanic vote, but it’s never materialized. It might be the better play politically to ignore the issue.
That’s a fair point. Considering I recently explained to someone else recently that at this 11th hour before the election we can’t expect to shift public opinion on the issues, merely carve the largest coalition out of where the electorate stands at present, then I guess I’ll eat my words. Hopefully this narrative gains traction over the next “activist” cycle where we attempt to actually influence public opinion following the election.
Republican inroads with the Hispanic population is sad. It seemed to initially begin out of Cuban expats, but now their rhetoric has picked up with the southwest population. So sad to see, for there is so much misinformation that they’re ultimately kicking the ladder out from behind their own (or parents, grandparents’) journeys.