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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Inflation has caused things to cost more. I live in the same neighborhood as I did precovid and everything costs more, handyman, housekeeping, etc. [/quote]

This. You might be right, but please understand, costs for these kinds of house maintenance projects has absolutely skyrocketed.

I think a part of it is reduced immigration, particularly illegal immigration, which started under Trump but was maintained under Biden and, in the case of legal immigration/visas, further reduced due to the pandemic.

I live in a more blue collar neighborhood and trust that my eyes are also bulging with sticker shock. [/quote]

Illegal immigration has exploded under Biden to a staggering number. Millions. By contrast it was in the thousands under Turnip. I have to concede this point to the Republicans.[/quote]

This is patently untrue. What has gone from hundreds of thousands (not “thousands”) under Trump to over a million under Biden is the number of encounters at the southern border. These result in apprehension or expulsion, not immigration. There are no statistics showing a huge surge of unauthorized immigrants such as you say. See, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/us/undocumented-immigrants-exodus-us.html or any of the monthly CBP reports. And don’t forget that a huge fraction of unauthorized immigration is visa overstays, not border crossings. Don’t let the Republican scare tactics fool you. [/quote]

Thank you. This person’s take is facially silly. If there really were all these illegal immigrants, we wouldn’t have a shortage of low paid laborers. [/quote]

i had a conversation with a contractor friend the other day. They are struggling with labor right now. Finding a day laborer to complete basic unskilled shovel type tasks used to be something you could do for $15 an hour (cash) now they want $25 an hour and will scoff at anything less.

This isn’t happening because we are over run with green cardless fence jumpers. There are undocumented kids working in slaughter houses precisely because their aren’t enough undocumented adult workers to go around. [/quote]

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