Americans of all social classes know from direct experience that immigrants (present company excluded) work the hardest jobs in the country, which makes the folk belief that they're tapping into some huge river of government benefits especially cynical
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Like if completed our occupation by letting every Afghan citizen who wanted one have a green card, what an amazing win/win outcome that would be for both our countries. But we have to pretend that letting in hard-working family obsessed people who make heavenly food is a hardship
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Construction is a really commonplace source of work for recent-ish immigrants tho. And, contrary to what that pustule says, what those people do is not really a skill you can just spontaneosly train a random hobo to do.
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...and service jobs, and agriculture jobs. Basically all of the jobs we undervalue.
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trouble is, Maciej, that it’s impossible to know what the correlation is between homelessness and building housing!!
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They also pick fruit & veg, which as we saw in Georgia a few years ago, when that labor pool was cut by threatened ID checks, Americans couldn't hack it. Also? Those tents? that's a housing policy & supply issue.Not an immigration issue.
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debasement of the currency is a big part of this. minimum wage would be the equivalent of $25/hr usd had they kept sound money principals. how much smaller those homeless camps would be if minimum wage would earn a living?
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