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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apologies if there’s another thread on this…

[b]But really? It seems like people I know who are not particularly affected by this issue are focused on it as a deciding factor in the election. It’s immigration, immigration, immigration. [/b]

Is immigration that terrible for our country? In my world at least, the most obvious related issue I see is that small businesses don’t have enough labor. So immigration is a good thing.

Maybe I’m myopic. Can someone please explain? 
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I live in an agricultural area, which has been forever altered by immigration. Whether it’s been undocumented or lowskilled-legal cause farmers “need labor”.

Even though I probably wont vote for Trump (which I never have in the past either) I think he’s a blessing when it comes to the immigration discussion. FINALLY we might vote out the elitist in my district, FINALLY immigration is something both parties acknowledge is ridiculous. FINALLY people are taking seriously the issues that come with mass migration of people who.. and this is the honest to God truth: don’t have even the equivalent of a GED, but then have 5+ kids.. (who the community and taxpayers become responsible for through different government programs).

1. Thank you Trump for making immigration an issue to be discussed in terms of restriction.
2. Thank you Biden for, in an attempt to placate your voters—caused the biggest surge of migrants in 20 years.. many of who were allowed in.
3. Thank you both Biden and Abbot for sending these huge amounts of migrants to dark-blue big cities so they get a taste of of the issues we’ve dealt with, somewhat comparable to where I live.

Immigration is fine and dandy when it’s high-skilled migrants who can afford to live here by virtue of their high-skilled and much needed job.

It’s different when it’s people who either work under the table and thus contribute nothing to taxes, or even if they have an ITIN—they have 5+ citizen kids we have to provide snap, medicaid, CHIP, k-12 education ESL classes for, etc…

Tl;dr [b]it’s an issue because areas where Democrats have a supermajority are feeling the pain that border ciries and agricultural areas have been feeling for the past 30 years.[/b][/quote]

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