Anyone else's local shopping mall almost empty now due to fear of raids?

[Anonymous]

"Things that never happened for $500"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.

I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”

TIA !

Who are you to tell them how to define themselves? NO

It has nothing to do with them defining themselves. It’s simply asking EVERYONE to be more conclusive and stop being transphobic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.

I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”

TIA !

Who are you to tell them how to define themselves? NO

It has nothing to do with them defining themselves. It’s simply asking EVERYONE to be more conclusive and stop being transphobic.

+1

Refusing to use the correct term, LatinX, is being transphobic, either consciously or unconsciously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Believe me, there are plenty of handy non-illegals who can and will do the work at a reasonable rate. Americans like you are conditioned to paying for extremely cheap labor because you do not respect skilled trades. And you do get what you pay for. I've run across enough of these Hispanic laborers who don't know how to install higher end work (think, for example, a Soss hinge) because they don't have a solution based approach. They do ONLY what they know and can't figure out anything more complicated.
People like you refuse to pay a reasonable rate for knowledgeable labor.
Go to Europe. They pay reasonable rates for skilled labor because they are actually trained and know what they are doing. And they are respected as professionals.

Every building in America was a shack until the last few decades of large-scale illegal immigration. Before that there was neither the skill nor the perseverance to build anything better.

[Anonymous]

What are you talking about? Modern houses are terribly constructed. The mansions may be built to look impressive but they’re flimsy. I’ve done some walkthroughs and there’s a lot of shoddy work on top of terrible design.

[Anonymous]

I think that person (17:55) was using sarcasm. The endless tropes about how immigrants built America out of dust and grit are wearing thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am Latina and have not noticed a decrease where I shop in Hayattsville, Laurel and Langley Park. I am not changing any of my shopping, work or life habits either. I won't carry my passport and won't live my life in fear. I believe there is a lot of fear mongering happening now that is not helping the Latino community.

I know it’s hard right now but please try to be more inclusive and use LatinX instead of “Latina.”

TIA !

Who are you to tell them how to define themselves? NO

It has nothing to do with them defining themselves. It’s simply asking EVERYONE to be more conclusive and stop being transphobic.

+1

Refusing to use the correct term, LatinX, is being transphobic, either consciously or unconsciously.

No. A trans man is Latino and a trans woman is Latina.

It may be insensitive to nonbinary people. But not trans.

Try harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Believe me, there are plenty of handy non-illegals who can and will do the work at a reasonable rate. Americans like you are conditioned to paying for extremely cheap labor because you do not respect skilled trades. And you do get what you pay for. I've run across enough of these Hispanic laborers who don't know how to install higher end work (think, for example, a Soss hinge) because they don't have a solution based approach. They do ONLY what they know and can't figure out anything more complicated.
People like you refuse to pay a reasonable rate for knowledgeable labor.
Go to Europe. They pay reasonable rates for skilled labor because they are actually trained and know what they are doing. And they are respected as professionals.

Every building in America was a shack until the last few decades of large-scale illegal immigration. Before that there was neither the skill nor the perseverance to build anything better.

The F’ are you talking about? Stuff is being built today by guys who can’t even read the instructions on how to open the materials packaging. Construction has literally NEVER been shoddier than it is RIGHT NOW. Ever see shanty towns in Central America? The guys who slapped them together are here now, building your house with the same attention to detail.

[Anonymous]

The raids are all a lie and daily deportations are now lower than they were under Obama. The administration has stopped publishing daily deportation numbers because they're so low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Things that never happened for $500"

+1 my local shopping mall in a neighborhood known for the Latino immigrant population seemed totally normal yesterday afternoon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Believe me, there are plenty of handy non-illegals who can and will do the work at a reasonable rate. Americans like you are conditioned to paying for extremely cheap labor because you do not respect skilled trades. And you do get what you pay for. I've run across enough of these Hispanic laborers who don't know how to install higher end work (think, for example, a Soss hinge) because they don't have a solution based approach. They do ONLY what they know and can't figure out anything more complicated.
People like you refuse to pay a reasonable rate for knowledgeable labor.
Go to Europe. They pay reasonable rates for skilled labor because they are actually trained and know what they are doing. And they are respected as professionals.

Every building in America was a shack until the last few decades of large-scale illegal immigration. Before that there was neither the skill nor the perseverance to build anything better.

The F’ are you talking about? Stuff is being built today by guys who can’t even read the instructions on how to open the materials packaging. Construction has literally NEVER been shoddier than it is RIGHT NOW. Ever see shanty towns in Central America? The guys who slapped them together are here now, building your house with the same attention to detail.

I'm saying Penn Station, The Metropolitan Museum of the Arts and the Alleghany Courthouse in Cumberland were constructed of mud and straw.

We never had beautiful, sturdy buildings designed and built by artisans who were American. We're not smart enough to design and too lazy to build anything of awe-inspiring beauty and that won't collapse in a heap after three years. We have been saved in the past 30-40 years by illegal aliens. What the F' are YOU talking about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"Things that never happened for $500"

+1 my local shopping mall in a neighborhood known for the Latino immigrant population seemed totally normal yesterday afternoon

DP and another +1. I went to a shopping center in Manassas today and there were plenty of people out and about, including many Latino families.

[Anonymous]

Even illegal immigrants understand that Trump doesn't follow through on his campaign promises. They're not worried.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/02/15/ice-arrests-immigration-deportations/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw plenty of day laborers hanging around outside Home Depot earlier this week just like usual. Which I was thankful for, because I sometimes hire them. I find them , on the whole, to be hard and efficient workers and I like helping them out. Also nice to just pay in cash.

I just had some work done on my house by a crew, none of whom spoke English.

They did a great job, and they cleaned up after themselves, and I could not be happier. I paid the owner of the company with a check. I don't know how his workers get paid.

This is what kills me about all this slamming of immigrants: They are filling jobs that need to be filled! They are great workers, at least the ones that I've hired. They work hard and do really excellent work. I had to wait months to get this crew to work on my house. Are they undocumented? I don't know, but I'm assuming because they've never learned English that, yes, probably. But I don't care. They are performing a useful, necessary service, they are skilled, and they are needed.

Believe me, there are plenty of handy non-illegals who can and will do the work at a reasonable rate. Americans like you are conditioned to paying for extremely cheap labor because you do not respect skilled trades. And you do get what you pay for. I've run across enough of these Hispanic laborers who don't know how to install higher end work (think, for example, a Soss hinge) because they don't have a solution based approach. They do ONLY what they know and can't figure out anything more complicated.
People like you refuse to pay a reasonable rate for knowledgeable labor.
Go to Europe. They pay reasonable rates for skilled labor because they are actually trained and know what they are doing. And they are respected as professionals.

Every building in America was a shack until the last few decades of large-scale illegal immigration. Before that there was neither the skill nor the perseverance to build anything better.

The F’ are you talking about? Stuff is being built today by guys who can’t even read the instructions on how to open the materials packaging. Construction has literally NEVER been shoddier than it is RIGHT NOW. Ever see shanty towns in Central America? The guys who slapped them together are here now, building your house with the same attention to detail.

I'm saying Penn Station, The Metropolitan Museum of the Arts and the Alleghany Courthouse in Cumberland were constructed of mud and straw.

We never had beautiful, sturdy buildings designed and built by artisans who were American. We're not smart enough to design and too lazy to build anything of awe-inspiring beauty and that won't collapse in a heap after three years. We have been saved in the past 30-40 years by illegal aliens. What the F' are YOU talking about?

Those places were all designed by white men (except the MMA, which was designed by a pair of white men using plans stolen from a Black draftsman in their firm in 1876). All are examples of construction designed to intimidate POC and women. They are giant and imposing instead of welcoming. Monuments to the arrogance and small penises of white men.

[Anonymous]

Dead malls has been a thing for years in the DMV. Tysons is the only consistently crowded mall.