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Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater by vel0city on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:49PM (#45109557)
> Doesn't sound very humanistic to me, especially if you think who benefits the most from their unregulated labour.

I'm not arguing they should be breaking the law. Hence the whole "Make it easier to be documented" line. I'm saying we should change the law to document these people. This would be the first step towards making their labor regulated. I'm absolutely in agreement the current policies just lead to lots of abuse in many ways.

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Re:Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater by RubyWave on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @05:05AM (#45113676)
>let's smooth bureaucratic processes

Yeah, we should. The problem is, there are powers, and people behind them, that benefits from undocumentness of immigrants. To make matter even worse, they typically have funds to lobby for no changes, or changes for worse.

Isn't it similar case as in tax refunds and what not? Very purposeful obfuscation to make TurboTax required.

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