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ted (not lasso)
@ted
i think it’s masterful distraction strategy that we’re discussing immigrants in Ohio eating pets as some abstract definition of racism instead of focusing on the *actual* issues caused by an unchecked border (national security and debt, employment, healthcare), and i think we’re all foolish to be falling for it.
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Gramajo👽
@gramajo.eth
Unchecked border? Nani? National security and employment sure, to certain degrees, agreed. How does the border tie to debt and healthcare? I’m curious
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@ted
giving non-citizens housing, medicare, home loans, etc. comes from taxpayer $$
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Gramajo👽
@gramajo.eth
100% @ted I am what the french call a "wetback" or "illegal alien" which is why I chose to revolve my branding around 👽 to own this shit. As a former illegal for 30 years, my wife works at immigration office for US Government deporting ppl & I worked in immigration a while back. Lets clear some misconceptions. As an illegal you cannot get subsidized housing/section 8. We cant get food stamps. You cannot get healthcare bc I pay for my parents out of pocket. For home loans, you usually get turned down bc you are too much of a risk, same is for college. All these are things I learned being in this life. Now what California does with is surplus budget money is up to them. If they want to make healthcare accessible their choice. If banks want to loan out bc they are capitalist also them. If colleges want to give farm worker kids scholarships bc their endowment also them. But the fallacy that we can get free shit is incorrect. Instead what we have is a propped up economy where we pay but we cant take out
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
my point is that it is more important for us to talk about immigration in the context of what you just shared than talk about it in context of racism. as you show, immigration is a nuanced topic and there are differences between current and proposed policies — which differ state to state. fwiw i never said "free".
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Est3la
@wayseeker
The context of racism and the context that was share are intertwined. The discourse created around immigration is that people are coming to take stuff away (in any country not only the US) and stems from the idea of superiority which is core concept of racism. The strategy in both, immigration and racism is othering.
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Gramajo👽
@gramajo.eth
100% our immigration system is fucked. Why on earth did my case reach the 9th circuit supreme court, why did they have my family and I in limbo for 30+ years. We need to fix that shit ASAP and go toward a system that makes sense and then create penalties to enforce better behavior. If there is one thing we are doing better now is not letting situations like mine happen. Anecdotally I can tell you, that someone comes in and within 6 months they are back out based on the cases I am hearing about.
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