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points by gadders 1 day ago | 0 comments

>> The idea that illegal immigrants need to be deported (and not have a path to legal residency) comes from a view that those jobs should go to American citizens

Isn't that obvious? I mean I can't imagine why this would be even remotely controversial.

[–] yifanl 1 day ago

There exists a subset of business owners who would prefer hiring workers without standard protections or rights.

[–] xp84 1 day ago

Yup, and 50 million “Democrats” assisting them, people who’ve been convinced that maximizing the number of foreign citizens living here without valid visas is the enlightened and cool policy to aim for, or at least that if the other party won’t let them automatically naturalize everyone as they sprint across the border, that this is the next best thing.

[–] gadders 1 day ago

Yes, which baffles me why being pro-immigration is a left wing position, given that it harms workers so much.

[–] jimbokun 1 day ago

Bernie used to be anti immigration for exactly this reason.

[–] phainopepla2 1 day ago

At the risk of a committing a "No True Scotsman" here... it isn't a properly left wing position. Or at least it hasn't been for most of the history of the left.

[–] gadders 1 day ago

Well "A policy of parties that currently identify as left of centre" - UK Labour, US Democrats etc

[–] kristjansson 1 day ago

yes yes as everyone knows there are exactly 112,530,874 jobs in the US, and will never be any more or less, so the labor market is exactly zero-sum