CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns

Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by ActorNightly on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:05PM (#45998480)

Oh my bad, I forgot that republicans have reading comprehension of 8th graders. Let me explain it in simpler terms.

You have a restaurant. Bathrooms need to be cleaned. You can't hire any American to clean them, because you can only afford $12 an hour, and high school kids who grew up in middle class neighborhoods where your restaurant is sure as shit not going to do that when they can make chatgpt write them prompts for viral videos. So your restaurant has smelly bathrooms and nobody comes in, therefore you don't get business and restaurant has to close.

Or you hire an immigrant, who is very well willing to do the job because in his home country, he would only get paid equivalent $6 an hour. Bathroom stays clean, you get customers, restaurant functions. Immigrant takes the money, and buys food and other things from local sources, thus putting that money back into the economy, with profit being made every step of the way, thus improving everyone financial situation.

Understand now?

Also, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by pfannkuchen on Thursday November 20, 2025 @06:26PM (#45999324)

If you can’t afford to pay enough, you don’t have a viable business. This is a standard argument for minimum wage, which is reasonable, and it applies here as well, no?

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Re:CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with sus... by ActorNightly on Thursday November 20, 2025 @06:58PM (#45999584)

The point is that there isn't a large amount of Americans that are willing to work for minimum wage, because we got used to a standard of living. You aren't going to force people to go to work for minimum wage in positions that are usually taken up by immigrants, because those people already have higher paying jobs - the unemployment (at least pre 2025) was like at an all time low.

For economy to be healthy, money has to exchange hands. The more you do this, the better the economy gets. This is why US was so far ahead of other countries because we had way less restrictions on this.

And being welcoming to people at all income levels is necessarily a part of this, because at the end of the day, even the fanciest car requires low skilled labor to builds roads for.

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