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Reader. Runner. Advocate for immigrant rights. Border and PIC abolitionist.

Currently reading: The Vegetarian by Han Kang

  1. Have you noticed how your argument has shrunk to nothing? If you don’t want them working off the books, just give them citizenship. Or at the state level at least you can remove e verify requirements.

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  2. They all pay taxes. Most of them are on payroll, and the reason some aren’t is because the state makes it nearly impossible. They aren’t trying to “game” anything. It’s insane to suggest that immigrants are the ones holding wages down when the federal government has set the minimum wage at $7.25

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  3. This is a wild pivot from ‘there won’t be a country’. Is it safe to say you’re abandoning that argument? Now it’s much softer. Wages, and social services. Undocumented immigrants pay taxes and they aren’t eligible for much in terms of services. So you’re wrong there too.

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