Six state governors have declared support for Texas so far: South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Florida Virginia Georgia
insane how little coverage an incipient constitutional crisis is getting. kinda ominous tbh lol haha
UPDATE: 16 states now lol lmao
Six state governors have declared support for Texas so far: South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Florida Virginia Georgia
insane how little coverage an incipient constitutional crisis is getting. kinda ominous tbh lol haha
UPDATE: 16 states now lol lmao
The fascists think that there’s millions and millions of scary brown people coming across the border, and they’re driving wages down and causing violence.
It’s not true because it’s all based in racism. It’s also worth noting that the border policy under Biden is exactly the same, if not worse than it was under Trump. So they’re having a tantrum because they’re not shooting migrants or putting them in concentration camps enough.
Even if Biden isn’t actually better on immigration, I think a lot of migrants assumed that he is because he’s less explicitly vitriolic than Trump. The official numbers of migrants are, if they’re true, staggering to me. A ton of people are immigrating for reasons ranging from climate change to higher wages. Move to the US, work a few years at triple or quadruple pay, then move back home and vastly improve your family’s life.
With public housing, quick citizenship or work visas, and a jobs program this could be good for everyone. But it’s harder to maintain an underclass of exploitable labor that way.
As far as I understand it, USA needs the workers. Same reason that here in Canada we’ve turbo-charged immigration in recent years. But USA is content to keep that underclass of easily exploitable under-the-table workers. Here we just put a rubber stamp on it and call it the “temporary foreign worker program”.