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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by Levitz on Sunday December 29, 2024 @07:42PM (#42545121)
>Republicans have always been pro-immigrant because it's inherently pro-business. They just have to do a song and dance routine for the low IQ racist cohort of their constituency to make it seem like they're tough on it.

It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

You are calling people "low IQ" and "Idiots" and you, literally in this very post, show you are falling for the same thing they fell for.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by macintux on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:36PM (#42545502)
> It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

Not Trump. He’s been opposed to immigration from the ‘wrong” countries, regardless of legality.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by bryanlarsen on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:31PM (#42545853)
Trump likely employs massive numbers of illegal immigrants in his hotel empire. He did nothing substantial about illegal immigration in his first term, he's not going to do anything substantial in his second term. He's all talk.

The way to eliminate illegal immigration is to go after the people who hire them. But Trump isn't going to put rich white people in jail.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by acdha on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:46PM (#42545574)
> It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

If this was true, why for decades have they been so concerned about which countries immigrants were coming from and so unsupportive of attempts to provide legal means to get the workers businesses need while opposing penalties for the businesses which hire people who can’t work legally? This situation isn’t new, there have been so many discussions for decades, but we’re still locked in the situation where businesses depend on Spanish-speaking workers but too many Americans oppose legal ways for them to work here.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by bdangubic on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:55PM (#42545642)
gonna leave the insults aside but just focus on it has consistently been about illegal immigration … during the last GOP rein what exactly was done to curb illegal immigration? absolutely not a damn thing. you take away covid years when we got locked up in our homes and everything was shut down and you won’t see any difference between obama’s 8 years and party that apparently is “consistent about illegal immigration”

don’t fall for that - illegal immigration is strictly election issue - republican love nothing more than exploiting illegal immigrants for personal gain (especially most vocal states like texas)

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by rat87 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:07PM (#42545702)
Illegal immigration has consistently been a fairly see through smokescreen for anti immigrant politics
Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by johnnyanmac on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:55PM (#42546609)
>It has consistently been about illegal immigration.

A recent bill tighening on illegal immigration had bipartisan support in rejecting it.

Again, narrative vs. business reality. They love underpaying employees with no beneits or legal protections.

Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by tombert on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:57AM (#42546868)
I am sure for some people it’s about “illegal” immigration, and that’s certainly the messaging, but if that were actually the main case, maybe Republicans would do something to make legal immigration less awful?

My idiot grandmother, in no uncertain terms, thinks Mexicans should be deported for racist reasons. She has let the curtain slip enough times to make that obvious. I don’t think it’s bad to call outright racist people “idiots”.