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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Immigrants are taking up space in our local shelters and the unhoused population has grown by 12%.

Think there’s a connection?  [/quote]

“ Immigration, along with crime, has been hyped by right-wing media for some time. Prior to the last few elections, convoys of immigrants (real or imagined) have received breathless around-the-clock media coverage, only to disappear as soon as the election has ended. The constant focus on immigration has caused posters like the original poster of this thread to decide that immigration is the most important issue to them. The immediate cause of the renewed interest in this thread over the weekend was the expiration of "Title 42", a Trump-era rule that restricted immigration in order to control the spread of COVID. Right-wing politicians and media sources broke out in complete hysteria warning of hordes of immigrants sweeping across our southern border. When real crowds failed to materialize, some right wing Twitter users resorted to passing years-old photos off as proof of new groups at the border. When Title 42 did expire, nothing dramatic happened. The Biden Administration had prepared with a host of new regulations that went into immediate effect. As a result, the Border Patrol experienced a 50% drop in encounters with undocumented immigrants. The disappointment among right-wingers was palpable. One contradiction in the right-wing narrative about immigration that is repeatedly pointed out in this thread is the use of arrest statistics to demonstrate that the "border is open". If vast numbers of migrants are being arrested, detained, or deported, the border is hardly open. The topic of immigration is a constant one in the political forum. While the original poster may have decided it is the single issue that will influence his vote, there are at least a couple of posters who are so obsessed with the issue that it seems to dominate their lives. They post almost canned responses in any thread even slightly related to immigration. In a thread like this, their posts are almost constant. As such, the ususal refrain that Democrats are promoting immigration in order to lower wages and create new Democratic voters are repeated over and over again throughout the thread.”

The above quote is from our host Jeff Steel’s from page commentary from yesterday on immigration.  Just thought I’d give him a hand since it is on topic for this thread.[/quote]
Just because you can copy/ paste " right wing" multiple times doesn't make your post anything other than idiotic.[/quote]

DP
I found that post well thought out and well reasoned in contrast to the many RWNJ echo chamber posts without any data or citations decrying all of the problems with immigrants. [/quote]

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