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Trump Admin Goes Full McCarthy, Will Decide Whether Migrants Are Pro-USA Enough To Stay Here
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Might be worth mentioning that we've had the "Are you American enough to live here?" test for a long, long while. Trumps (re)weaponizing it in order to ethnically cleanse the population. But we've spent every spare minute since the end of the Cold War waging a pogrom on The Wrong Kind Of Migrants. Wish we'd had a party willing to advance comprehensive immigration and naturalization reform back in 2009 or 2021, when the liberal majority was able to do something. Wish we'd had DC Statehood, too, so a DC governor could exist to control the National Guard.
Trumpism is a choking weed that's been growing out of the seeds planted under Reagan. Liberals thought they could just go along with it in order to appease the fash-curious voters for decades. And now here we fucking are.
As long as corporations or wealthy business owners are able to turn a profit from exploiting migrants, that will never happen. The people with the power (money) to change politicians' minds are against anything that would hurt their own interests.
But running off our slave labor force is hurting business. Add tariffs to that. I cannot understand why big business isn't screaming.