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Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by w0m on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:44AM (#18249269)
There's a clear and stark difference between

> want their country to fill with illegal immigrants

and selling facial recognition software to local police departments in main. It's disingenuous to conflate unlike positions. That's not to say I agree with one or or the other, but lets at least pretend to be honest about the comparisons.

Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by sascha_sl on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:31PM (#18249724)
Well some countries also don't want legal immigrants.

https://fuckoffgoogle.de/

Pretty good if you want some perspective.

Re:Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tec... by zjaffee on Thursday October 18, 2018 @02:14PM (#18250694)
Unless you are a Native American, which make up less than 1% of the population, you came to this country as an immigrant. The vast majority of modern immigrants are coming to the country for a similar reason why people did 100 years ago. Immigration doesn't hurt anything, even if it was the case that it lowered the cost of labor (which it isn't), that would result in a bigger economy with more jobs and employment, which would then result in wages rising again.

Automation and outsourcing are the primary things that have lowered the wages of American workers as it reduced demand for low skill and other manual labor work, not immigrants seeking a better life.