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i’m relatively conservative on immigration. i don’t think we should be letting many people in at all. i think anyone that if 6 months ago you showed up here illegally you should be deported. But dear god is ICE a monsterous organization. cant supportthat
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Anonymous 2w

The reason illegal immigration was a such a big problem to begin with is because our immigration is so outdated and unnavigable that most people CAN’T get through it. Even if they literally got sponsored by the CIA’s counter terrorism branch as an informant. THAT’S what needed to be fixed. Better organization means finding criminals faster, keeping them out, and letting good people in, and growing our economy.

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Anonymous 2w

Yk, the issues that most people correlate with immigration, tend to lie with the extraction of wealth from the working class to the owning class. Immigrants coming here is a net positive, especially for the economy; but they’re also heavily exploited due to policies lobbied for by said owning class (long naturalization process, extending the wait time for them to access legal protections afforded to citizens (like minimum wage and benefits))

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

They literally just needed like a team of competent programmers, and an office of well-paid people to transcribe old records.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

An office building*

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Like 8 stories minimum

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

I used to agree with this but don’t anymore. I don’t think most people should be able to get through it at all. “Improving the system” typically means let more people in. I don’t want that

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

If we redistributed wealth and re-instituted an income cap-based tax rate (like we used to have, ~90% over a certain threshold), a lot of the “issues” with immigration would be completely gone, and many of the people lobbying against immigration wouldn’t have the money or power to influence government like they are! But I fully agree w you about ICE; their actions are abhorrent, as is the new precedent they’re trying to establish.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

My biggest concern is with H1Bs. Tech is filled with foreigners they hire because cheap labor and exploiting the system. That is not a net positive for my industry.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Shit when it comes to that regard I know what you mean (majoring in compsci, I’ll be aptly fucked in the market) but idk I still think that’s the fault of business owners and their influence on policy, trying to get as much money as possible I know im just trying to survive in this world at the end of the day, and I’d imagine that’s the case for billions of us - even though sadly that survival comes at the cost of others’ (which, off topic, but I also think is by design sadly)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

That’s not even taking into consideration the current bubble growing from them funneling billions into developing and training various neural networks, specifically large language models; assumingely for the goal of displacing even more jobs :(

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Neural network architectures*

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