Real problem or “election year” problem?
Cause that migrant caravan that was going to sneak into our houses at night and smash up the place just kind of fizzled out immediately after the last election was over.
Not even a problem.
Most studies of undocumented immigrants have them committing fewer crimes than the average US citizen. Most are beneficial to the economy because they get less out of taxes than they pay in through payroll taxes due to not being eligible for many government services.
The only problem is how horrendous our immigration policies are that people feel the need to sneak in because the actual system for amnesty and becoming a citizen are so ridiculously complex and slow that risking their lives seems like a better option.
Funding the agencies that process immigration and ditching the ridiculously low caps on how many people can immigrate each year would be an actual solution.
Like most propaganda, it has both truth and gross exaggeration in it.
The true part is the asylum process does get abused, which results in extremely long wait-times for asylum requests, and an overall stressing of the system.
The false parts are the normal Fox News propaganda lines. Way more of them than there actually are, it’s an “invasion”, they want to replace you, etc etc etc. Be afraid, be afraid, be afraid. Oh, and give our guys money.
I’m unclear: Why is immigration a problem???
I doubt the same thing is happening in the US, but in Canada immigration is definitely an election issue.
Building homes, schools and hospitals has not kept up with our immigration levels. Our homeless incampments are growing larger, more students than ever are in portables and wait times for the ER and surgeries keep growing.
Well, they can say it’s a problem but…
Immigration has propelled the U.S. job market further than just about anyone expected, helping cement the country’s economic rebound from the pandemic as the most robust in the world,” the Washington Post reports.
“That momentum picked up aggressively over the past year. About 50 percent of the labor market’s extraordinary recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024, according to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data. And even before that, by the middle of 2022, the foreign-born labor force had grown so fast that it closed the labor force gap created by the pandemic, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/27/economy-immigration-border-biden/
Republicans during an election year and stoking xenophobia, like peas and carrots.
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Remember, it’s an election year. So we got to talk about immigration to scare people into voting Republican and then immediately forget about it after the election.
Immigration only ever seems to be a concern when they’re running for office. And they’ve already shown that they have no interest in actually fixing the ‘issue.’
Buried the lede:
Congress’ job approval rating has fallen to 12%.
Okay, so how many people do you think were surveyed to prepare this sizzling turgid article headline?
10,000? 50,000? More? Less? 5,000?
The answer is: .00006% of registered voters who have a telephone and answer their telephone for people they don’t know.
Just those last two parts should make you wonder who they’re really polling and what the likely outcome is obviously going to be.
Interestingly, this is the same percentage as voter fraud experts imagine there actually exists in a given election. Or, one person per state every six or seven years.
That’s relevant because this is a kind of “voter fraud” where voters are “informed” of a scary thing by “numbers” from “polls” but it’s really a thousand old people who want to spend 15 minutes on the phone with a telemarketer about their political views. How much did that cost the conservative PAC that funded it? Eh, $30k? For a headline in a respectable paper like the Gruandia? That’s money well spent in an election year.
