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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]His constituents are the ones locked out of a labor market that is filled with underpaid undocumented immigrants.

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Partially, but there are also many jobs that his constituents do not want to do. The U.S. economy is based, in part, on new immigrant labor. [/quote]

Oh, so basically you’re saying that Black people are just lazy, then?

How woke of you.  :roll: [/quote]

+1 the casual racism is not surprising.[/quote]

Well, it is not very woke of you to not acknowledge that whole sectors of the economy are not based on brown immigrant bodies - agriculture, meat packing, child-minding, elder care, etc. Your argument is that wages are stagnant and depressed by immigrant labor. Labor economists have looked at this proposition and have determined that immigrant labor is not supplanting AA labor in significant numbers (or white, non-college educated labor). There are certain jobs that AA and white people prefer not to do. 
 It’s a cheap thrill (and racist) to argue that Hispanics are stealing jobs from AA people - but there is no evidence that this is true in DC or otherwise. [/quote]

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