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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by mrtksn on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:48PM (#32064199)
Isn't allowed by whom exactly? Simply allow immigrants to vote. Have no work permits, thus working as cheap labor? Give them permits.

It's appalling how people pretend that they don't have anything against immigrants but they are against illegal immigrants as if the paperwork for legal work is a natural phenomenon and they can't do anything about it.

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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:16PM (#32065148)
> Simply allow immigrants to vote.

You've just given me a great business idea. Votes for hire. I bet I could charge a fortune, and I would only have to pass a small fraction of that on to the immigrants I employ.

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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by throw123123123 on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @12:04AM (#32065484)
Why is that different to money for votes?
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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @01:43AM (#32066097)
Simple - money for votes requires registered voters. My scheme - erm, "business plan" - just needs unregistered immigrants! Way easier to enact, because they're undocumented to begin with!
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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by vkou on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @02:14AM (#32066256)
It's not.
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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by yunohn on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:12PM (#32064769)
> Isn't allowed by whom exactly?

To be clear, as suggested by the rest of your comment, it is currently not allowed due to various political reasons. Nobody is arguing ideal situations, only reality.

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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by notch656a on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:52PM (#32064225)
Why even have permits then? Just get rid of the permit system altogether.

There are probably many million starving African desperate to work a job like trash-man or food packager. Competition for lower skilled jobs will become fierce, but I guess competition is a good thing.

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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by pessimizer on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:57PM (#32064265)
Yes, changing even the tiniest thing is basically destroying everything.
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Re:Sir Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked into the UK using ... by mrtksn on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:56PM (#32064256)
I agree. Why would the government be the first step of HR? As if the companies can't choose the right employees for themselves and they need to go through the state bureaucracy so that they don't hire a lumberjack from Bangladesh as a JS developer in Bristol.
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