The Ironic Thing is Democrats Are Responsible for the Mass Deportations of Illegals

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I am wholeheartedly for immigration. There is not a rational economist alive who will tell you America can sustain our current GDP per capita without a steady stream of immigrants coming into the country.

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You only have to go back to 1991 and the population of the US was about 250 million. Now we are about at 350 million. The idea that we have to keep increasing our population like this to drive GDP growth is crazy. It’s unsustainable. GDP growth doesn’t count for much if it requires you to commit national and cultural suicide.

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There is not a rational economist alive who will tell you America can sustain our current GDP per capita without a steady stream of immigrants coming into the country

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Then you’re fricking stupid and lazy without any ability to think for yourself.

Just try for one or two days and it’ll make sense to you, think about it, and if it still doesn’t make sense then you have confirmed yourself as being a stupid motherfricker.

At that point just accept it

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I am wholeheartedly for immigration. There is not a rational economist alive who will tell you America can sustain our current GDP per capita without a steady stream of immigrants coming into the country.

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This logic destroyed Britain and France. Sacrifice the national culture at the altar of perpetual growth.

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. The idea that we have to keep increasing our population like this to drive GDP growth is crazy.

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Our economy is largely driven by domestic demand. If population growth is stagnant then it will create demand destruction and slow growth.

That doesn't mean we need to bring in anyone and everyone but we do in fact need to increase population to have any long term economic growth. If we had much greater exports you might have a point.

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Well, for starters he doesn’t have a clue what he is talking about

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Yep and yikes...

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Illegals are a net loss to the economy with the CBO calculating that the net loss over ten years is on the order of $1.5 Trillion. Once AI takes over all the jobs that current American citizens have, the US citizens will be working those trade jobs, restaurant jobs, picking cotton jobs in order to collect their government stipend

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And we'll still have reduced domestic demand.

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Illegals are a net loss to the economy with the CBO calculating that the net loss over ten years is on the order of $1.5 Trillion

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That’s illegal immigration. I haven’t seen this statistic but I’m inclined to agree with you.

We still need legal immigration, however. That’s the point I’m making.

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There is not a rational economist alive who will tell you America can sustain our current GDP per capita without a steady stream of immigrants coming into the country.

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Stopped reading here.

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To this day I am confounded as to why he did nothing to curb illegal immigration at the southern border for 3 years, and I don’t know if we ever got an answer from him.

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More political representation as the census counted these people. Also an unlimited supply of benefits-dependent future voters to shift the balance of power to Democrats.

The Democrats shift on immigration from the Obama years is interesting but you're not going to get a decent discussion here from folks who desire to see 60 yr old grandmothers to be sent to Alligator Alley.

In 2019 during the primaries.. almost every Dem candidate supported decriminalizing illegal border crossings... except Biden. Even Bernie who said "open borders were a Koch brothers proposal" went more liberal.

People forget this because the Dems Resistance during the 1st Trump admin, the Dem progressives had tons of support with rallying against the Muslim ban, immigration crackdowns, Mexican wall

Biden, as Obamas VP, was forced to defend Obamas "harsh" deportation policy against the Dem progressives who wanted to go more left. He even accused the other Candidates of wanting an Open Border lol

But once in office, Biden decided to go with the progressives policy on the border instead of the one he was elected on.

And yes like you've said, it happened at the worst time because public polling on immigration shifted towards Trumps hard line immigration policy, unlike his first term. He has an absolute mandate on it and Dems don't realize it because they still think it's 2018