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22 Jan, 10 tweets, 3 min read
"Illegal bad, more legal good"

The @GOP inaccurately claims to think that our government and taxpayers are able to keep up with the masses of people if they only happen to come in "legally".
The GOP will constantly ramble about how illegal immigration is bad. Truth be told, they love undocumented workers. Why? Because they can exploit them and increase their profit margins because these workers have no choice. Look at Gov. Ricketts R-NE:
Why is Gov. Ricketts (R-NE) allowing meatpacking factories to hire undocumented workers? Why isn't he prosecuting these businesses if he is so against illegal immigration?

Reality is that Ricketts et al. see undocumented workers as a benefit because it enriches his funders.
For the Businesses & establishment GOP/DNC alike, illegal immigration is beneficial for them so long as it’s, illegal. They reason that it’s good for the illegal migrants, US Govt. (no welfare for undocumented workers), & Americans (cheaper prices).

Milton Friedman:
Friedman was Reagan's economic adviser. One has to wonder why Reagan pursued amnesty when his own Nobel prize economics adviser stated that illegal immigration is good only if it's, illegal.

Friedman is right about one thing: you can't have both open-borders & a welfare state.
Friedman is incorrect to state that illegal migrants do jobs that Americans don't want to do. He didn't take into account the number of low-skilled immigrants that came in under the 1965 Immigration Act, nor did he account for African-Americans:
apnews.com/article/a2f7d0…
People on the Left argue that some undocumented workers pay taxes so should entitled to welfare programs. That's a fair argument. But they also argue for amnesty. Well, if they become citizens, they will lose their current jobs because they can't be exploited further.
If undocumented workers get a pathway to citizenship, what use are they to the businesses that employ them on the very basis that they are undocumented so they can't command fair wages? These amnestied workers then lose jobs & get on welfare as a result --> cost to US Govt.
Why do some illegal migrants pay taxes? Well, it's evidence to provide that they're not a cost burden in case there's a chance of a future amnesty. But paying taxes should not be a basis for receiving immigration benefit. It's an absurd policy suggestion.
If both political parties are serious about ending illegal immigration, then policy should entail going after the *incentives* that makes illegal immigration attractive to migrants:

- under the table jobs
- asylum loopholes
- birthright citizenship

nationalreview.com/corner/going-a…

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Progressives often look to Denmark as a beacon of success & want those successes replicated in the US.

What Progressives fail to address is Denmark’s restrictive immigration policies. They have a Social Democrat/Liberal (party) PM who is an immigration restrictionist.
The Danes aren’t anti-immigrants. They just understand that a more lenient immigration policy would create an economic burden to the country because of their numerous social welfare programs (healthcare, education, paid vacation, etc), & effect on wages.

@SenSanders knew this:
Denmark has a capitalistic system that ensures their citizen’s benefit first. They realize there’s no utility in having a country if the majority of their people are suffering. They don’t try to make a quick buck by screwing over their citizens as is emblematic in the US.
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In which Noah uses the “broken window fallacy” to justify why immigration doesn’t reduce wages...
For those who don’t know what the Broken Window Fallacy is, you can read up on it below.

investopedia.com/ask/answers/08…
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A person as uninformed on the H-1B program as you has little recourse than to throw cheap insults.
The only thing you want is cheap labor. The more compliant & more exploitable the better for you & your corporate ilk. That is the only value you see in Indians coming on the H-1B.
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The DOJ case against Facebook alleging FB was intentionally creating a hiring system to deny qualified Americans from learning about available jobs so that their H-1B workers could get Green Cards exposes the skilled-immigration scam. @SenMikeLee's S386 rewards this.
FB & their lobbying arm @FWDus like to claim there's a shortage & they can't find qualified Americans so they have to resort to using the H-1B program to bring in foreigners.

If there were clearly no qualified Americans, why would FB need to cheat the hiring process?
If there are clearly no qualified Americans, why would FB deliberately want to rig the hiring system to ensure no Americans would apply for these jobs?

This suggests they clearly knew there were qualified Americans out there. They just did not want to hire them.
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