NATIVISTS: immigration is a net negative
ALSO NATIVISTS: immigrants contribute so much that we can't afford to pay back the money they've already put into the system
ALSO NATIVISTS: immigrants contribute so much that we can't afford to pay back the money they've already put into the system
"We simply can't afford to stop exploiting these people" has always been just beneath most opposition to mass regularization--a normal and recurring feature in the system right up to 1986--but it's still wild to see this naked depravity right there in actual words
One indeed may unclefucking object
This all reminds me of the classic circular "ineligibility for citizenship" nativist provision by which state & federal governments excluded people racially barred from citizenship (read: Chinese & other East Asians) from society as if ineligibility was in their DNA or whatever
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