Yes when you have to pay workers all the legal benefits or pay into workers comp/tax/benefits plans, costs go up. Daycare and cleaning services will also become more expensive.And costs will inevitably rise...
Report: U.S. families will see a rise in most costs under Trump immigration policies
The report comes as the Trump administration moves to revoke work permits and legal status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.www.azpm.org
No such thing as a free lunch. All exploitative immigration schemes need to be shuttered, but humanely. That goes for irregular migration in the US or TFWs here. Noone wins with these schemes.
DOJ just days ago published a memo to the effect that they will prioritize revoking citizenship (‘denaturalization’) for criminality and misrepresentation. They will also be moving to carry this out via civil proceedings versus criminal, which is a change in how they do this. ThereMs some loose phraseology, however, that leaves open the door to the possibility that they will soon look to further expand situations in which denaturalization shall be sought.
Not to mention hospitality.
I read they'll probably try to invoke the "moral character" aspect of denaturalization pretty loosely. Tough to quantify, easy to abuse if the courts aren't watching like a hawk.
Likewise ‘National security’.
Something wrong is surely going on, but it's not incipient fascism. There are at least four big political struggles going on in the US right now: extreme left progressives vs moderates in the Democratic party (extreme left is still ascendant), neo-cons vs Trump in the Republican party (neo-cons have faded to insignificance), Democrats vs Republicans, establishment vs populists. Republican populists currently have the most control, so they are under attack by Democrats (whether extreme or moderate), neo-cons, and anyone who was vested in the pre-Trump establishment status quo for how politics and power worked in the US.
Fucking shame that people might have to be paid more. The proper living wage is somewhere above statutory minimum and below what the gentry want to pay their landscapers, nannies, and crop pickers. Doesn't everyone know that?
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It would also help if "populist" leaders didn't act like absolute autocrats whose ever musing and rage storm are considered to be legitimate populist policies.
Boys in girls sports. Lax border controls and lenient welfare for people in the country illegally. Weak to no enforcement of some categories of crimes. Proposals to stack the USSC. Weakening of the 1A.
Sure. These things are simultaneously true:
Also, I reject that Trump is a populist. There is nothing remotely populare about increasing prices by initiating a global trade war with tarrifs, putting secret immigration police or the military out on the streets or cutting billionaires a cheque at the expense of the working class and their benefits.
Define "okay". Mainstream Republican and Democrat government in the US includes renditions, detention away from US courts, drone assassinations, regime change, war-making without Congressional authorization. Using purely utilitarian measures, are more people in the world better off with Trump in charge?
Why so strict? A few days ago a parade (a kind of circus) was good enough to be evidence of fascism.
Just in the global economy, the answer is a definitive no.
I would add the demise of USAID to that as well. A lot of people will be worse off, unless China or Russia steps in. Yay?
I still don't think Trump is a Fascist.