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The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

Terror Sweat posted:

everyone knows the real answer, nobody wants to do it because of intense lobbying by the people who profit off of cheap indentured labor

Is the answer "actually enforcing immigration laws like every other country in the world" ?

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Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

The Saurus posted:

Is the answer "actually enforcing immigration laws like every other country in the world" ?

everytime ICE raids a bunch of companies the business owners complain and congressmen start to flex their power. any leader who actually gave a poo poo would just start instituting massive fines and or jail time for these infractions

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
It's a shame, because anytime those raids happen the poor people in the area, usually black people, get a bunch of jobs and the local economy massively improves

let's hope trump has raids, fines and jail time!

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
Doesnt Trump literally employ illegals.

I dont think thats gonna happen

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

The Saurus posted:

It's a shame, because anytime those raids happen the poor people in the area, usually black people, get a bunch of jobs and the local economy massively improves

let's hope trump has raids, fines and jail time!

you dont need to hope, I have the power to see the future

trump will not have raids, fines and jail time

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
Will probably do more than Clinton though. #QueLevantenElMuro

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

dont post in this forum the saurus

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

Jose posted:

deport you op

Konstantin
Jun 20, 2005
And the Lord said, "Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

The Saurus posted:

It's a shame, because anytime those raids happen the poor people in the area, usually black people, get a bunch of jobs and the local economy massively improves

let's hope trump has raids, fines and jail time!

When there was an immigration raid in my area they also found the plant employed kids as young as 14 and had massive workplace safety violations. Turns out that when companies violate one law, they also violate a bunch of others, especially when the workers do not have legal pretections.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

The Saurus posted:

do you really want me back in brexit britain?

he has a point, this wouldn't stop him from posting

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

Konstantin posted:

When there was an immigration raid in my area they also found the plant employed kids as young as 14 and had massive workplace safety violations. Turns out that when companies violate one law, they also violate a bunch of others, especially when the workers do not have legal pretections.

the owner of that plant and other employers in the area then angrily called their congressman so no more raids were ever conducted there

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
sorry that your nation won't get any remittance money next christmas babypolis

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
also, having to pay for the wall without being allowed to continue to use the usa as a release valve for the mexican peoples' righteous anger, will cause the capitalist government to fall to the forces of socialism, which will be good for the mexicans and everyone in the world

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

The Saurus posted:

also, having to pay for the wall without being allowed to continue to use the usa as a release valve for the mexican peoples' righteous anger, will cause the capitalist government to fall to the forces of socialism, which will be good for the mexicans and everyone in the world

shut the gently caress up you goddamn moron

no one wants you around here. i know you are one those hosed up weirdos who enjoys negative attention but srsly gently caress off

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan
I don't know who he is

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

The Saurus posted:

It's a shame, because anytime those raids happen the poor people in the area, usually black people, get a bunch of jobs and the local economy massively improves

let's hope trump has raids, fines and jail time!

Guess the vast amount of evidence indicating that immigration improves the economy/decreases crime is wrong then

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

Yossarian-22 posted:

Guess the vast amount of evidence indicating that immigration improves the economy/decreases crime is wrong then

illegal immigrants are literally breaking the law every single second they are in a country. you have a weird definition of crime

Sound
Oct 18, 2004


1. Build the wall/secure the borders

2. Deport all (~2 million?) immigrants with criminal (violent/drug/felony) record

3. Amnesty/path to citizenship for all other immigrants

4. Welcome to republican voting majority for the foreseeable future

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Terror Sweat posted:

illegal immigrants are literally breaking the law every single second they are in a country. you have a weird definition of crime

I think technically they only broke it upon entry actually?

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
a work exchange program for illegal aliens which will guarantee full time employment with energy companies by selling them off as them off under the table as indentured servants to Russian Federation to toil in the gas fields of Azerbaijan.

ugh its Troika
May 2, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

babypolis posted:

dont post in this forum the saurus

Grand Theft Autobot
Feb 28, 2008

I'm something of a fucking idiot myself

Terror Sweat posted:

illegal immigrants are literally breaking the law every single second they are in a country. you have a weird definition of crime

Good thing we don't count crimes that way, dipshit. You've been charged with 900 counts of speeding, one for each second you were driving over the speed limit on this freeway. Enjoy your $157,500 in fines!

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Terror Sweat posted:

illegal immigrants are literally breaking the law every single second they are in a country. you have a weird definition of crime

Hot take: crime can be good

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

Yossarian-22 posted:

Guess the vast amount of evidence indicating that immigration improves the economy/decreases crime is wrong then

It doesn't matter that something "improves the economy" because ALL the gains of economic growth for the past 30 years have been going to the 1%.

When someone says "but the economy" they're really saying "but the superrich's superprofits!!"

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
Outsourcing also "improves the economy" but how much did that argument help turn working class americans in the rust belt against it this past election?

babypolis
Nov 4, 2009

get deported you loving piece of poo poo

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
I'm sorry that your Abuelita was such a horrible failure at trying to open the floodgates at the border, babypolis. But it wasn't really a realistic plan for Mexico to keep using the United States as a release valve for their problems indefinitely. Perhaps now that all of your nation's most esteemed personages aren't unblocking toilets or working as line cooks (like I failed to be), the Mexican people will finally be able to turn Mexico into the great state which is its destiny.

Maybe the first step is to stop the abhorrent treatment of your fellow spanish-speaking refugees fleeing violence from the northern triangle while making disney eyes at gringos in the USA about how oppressed you are.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Trump will commit a police action against mexico

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Trump will build a wall around The Saurus :newlol:

rudatron
May 31, 2011

by Fluffdaddy
immigrants are laborers, and the fact that they're labor gets exploited at the expense of local laborers is bad, but they're not and have never been the problem

'opening the floodgates' is really dehumanizing way to refer to people trying to get by

like legit the best way to deal with border security is to embark on a process to unfuck Mexico, because the mexican government is incredibly corrupt and all of its leaders pocket everything, don't collect taxes, and so nothing can ever improve

from that perspective, US companies offering a job is like striking gold, they're not great conditions or pay but its your best bet

so drug legalization + pushing hard for anti-corruption reforms in mexico + maybe do something like modi is trying in india, tackling the tax problem by trying to digitize all the currency

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

The Saurus posted:

It doesn't matter that something "improves the economy" because ALL the gains of economic growth for the past 30 years have been going to the 1%.

When someone says "but the economy" they're really saying "but the superrich's superprofits!!"

Ya so let's expropriate the 1% instead of letting them divide and conquer us like lemmings

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

Yossarian-22 posted:

Ya so let's expropriate the 1% instead of letting them divide and conquer us like lemmings

I agree. Maybe you'd like to explain this to some of the WOKES around here and in D&D who seem to have a total blindness towards class and attack you for only caring about straight white men when you refer to union membership and wealth inequality statistics from the mid 20th century to show the awful decline in the power of the working class.

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

rudatron posted:

immigrants are laborers, and the fact that they're labor gets exploited at the expense of local laborers is bad, but they're not and have never been the problem

'opening the floodgates' is really dehumanizing way to refer to people trying to get by

Well, they are a part of the problem. Capitalists are always going to want to hire the cheapest labour available, so removing the availability of incredibly cheap illegal labour is a boon for the American legal resident and citizen.

Pardon me if I don't have much sympathy for people who "try to get by" by illegally entering, staying and working in the sovereign territory of another nation after I spent 18 months apart from the woman I love more than anything to do things the way the government demands.

Every single country in the world has border controls and immigration/visa restrictions - And the USA is more or less the only one that doesn't properly enforce them due to massive lobbying by the capitalists who benefit from it. You're doing the neoliberal capitalists jobs for them by arguing for a totally open, globalized labour market where anyone can move anywhere, because they know that using the racist label gets people to comply with what is in their interests.

That's not how we help people in developing countries. We help them through international solidarity and building their own countries up to be as livable as ours, not by letting the small fraction of them who are healthy, wealthy or lucky enough to sneak across the border undercut the wages of fellow workers and drain remittances out of the domestic economy.

The Saurus has issued a correction as of 19:53 on Jan 8, 2017

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

Dude the solution is to fight for the free movement of people in order to counter the free movement of capital. Emancipation of the working class and social justice aren't mutually exclusive

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
Do you really think the best plan is 100% free movement of peoples to travel all over the world at all times, or is that just the only moral end goal to aim for in your view?

Because I'm happy to consent to 100% free movement once global late stage communism has been reached. But until then we actually have to live in the real world where mass immigration pressure on housing, infrastructure, healthcare and wages is harmful to the indigenous working class of a country under capitalism.

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003

fred dryer would have made me like a trump presidency tbqh

Yossarian-22
Oct 26, 2014

The Saurus posted:

Do you really think the best plan is 100% free movement of peoples to travel all over the world at all times, or is that just the only moral end goal to aim for in your view?

Because I'm happy to consent to 100% free movement once global late stage communism has been reached. But until then we actually have to live in the real world where mass immigration pressure on housing, infrastructure, healthcare and wages is harmful to the indigenous working class of a country under capitalism.

The most successful unions in the late 18/early 1900s were those that didn't discriminate, i.e. the Knights of Labor and the IWW. When native-born workers band together with immigrant workers it's better for everyone. Mexican Americans are some of the most radicalized people in the U.S., as Eastern European Catholics and Jews were in the 20th century.

The problem of downward pressure on wages--which only really exists in the most menial jobs (otherwise immigration=net gain for workers' wages) --goes away with full citizenship rights which should be fought for in all circumstances. The solidarity of the working class is contingent on being international and not easily divided

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

rudatron posted:

immigrants are laborers, and the fact that they're labor gets exploited at the expense of local laborers is bad, but they're not and have never been the problem

'opening the floodgates' is really dehumanizing way to refer to people trying to get by

like legit the best way to deal with border security is to embark on a process to unfuck Mexico, because the mexican government is incredibly corrupt and all of its leaders pocket everything, don't collect taxes, and so nothing can ever improve

from that perspective, US companies offering a job is like striking gold, they're not great conditions or pay but its your best bet

so drug legalization + pushing hard for anti-corruption reforms in mexico + maybe do something like modi is trying in india, tackling the tax problem by trying to digitize all the currency

actually the best solution is to end big corn

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe

Yossarian-22 posted:

The most successful unions in the late 18/early 1900s were those that didn't discriminate, i.e. the Knights of Labor and the IWW. When native-born workers band together with immigrant workers it's better for everyone. Mexican Americans are some of the most radicalized people in the U.S., as Eastern European Catholics and Jews were in the 20th century.

The problem of downward pressure on wages--which only really exists in the most menial jobs (otherwise immigration=net gain for workers' wages) --goes away with full citizenship rights which should be fought for in all circumstances. The solidarity of the working class is contingent on being international and not easily divided

I'm an immigrant. I have no problem with legal immigrants. America is a nation of immigrants.

But that doesn't mean you get to just decide when you want to move to someone else's country whenever you feel like it, and its racist for someone to take issue with that.

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Red Dad Redemption
Sep 29, 2007

deport all capitalists and other class enemies

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