I don't know who Jessie Memer is but I wholeheartedly agree
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I would just add that they also can't register to vote without a social security number, another Republican lie.
I will preemptively reply to the link to an opinion piece I'm sure someone will comment here. It will be an opinion piece talking about people who immigrated legally and became citizens who are now receiving some sort of money from the government. The response is:
Read the damn article before posting it. Illegals aren't even mentioned in it at all. But since you are calling me a liar I must conclude you already know that and are just doing that projection thing which is what Republicans do best.
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IMO that is how Democrats lose the Independents - use bad logic to promote a good cause. 1. Undocumented immigrants are not a non-issue. They have broken the country's Immigration Laws and must be prosecuted. They also adversely influence the supply/demand balance in labor resources market. 2. "They are all poor" because there aren't enough jobs that match the skills they have/they dont have the skills that are needed for jobs available. 3. Income inequality is the effect of progress in automation and in manufactuting technology. History repeats itself - "The Industrial Revolution is widely considered to have significantly contributed to increased income inequality, as the owners of factories and means of production became vastly wealthier while many factory workers endured low wages and poor working conditions, leading to a widening gap between the rich and the poor." 4. Poverty spreads with inflation. But inflation is not a consequence of wage stagnation. Inflation occurs because of scarcity of goods in the market place together with excessive money supply. 5. Emploers cannot arbitrarily raise wages. Wage stagnation is a concequence of supply-demand imbalance in labor resources. Undocumented immigrants raise availabilty of labor without there being a balancing increase in demand for labor and thus contribute heavily to wage stagnation. Think about how things may have turned out differently if Democrats had stayed away from idiological proclamations and exhibited a spirit of co-opeation with the other half of the voters rather than proprose to fight and said, for example: We will work with the industry to offer programs for assessing the labor needs of the market and help initiate re-training of eligible workers to meet the skills required in the changing economy/market and thus reduce the income inequality. Proposing to fight with the other half and promising to be their President as well doesn't quite rhyme, does it? We forgot .. what helped us win two terms was .. proclaiming .. We are not the Blue States and the Red States, we are the UNITED STATES ..
