Just like black people doing nothing illegal have nothing to worry about jogging through Georgia. Or black motorists in MN who have a legal conceal/carry permit have nothing to worry about when getting pulled over.
Ok this thread is starting to get carried away, what in God’s name does this have to do with being deported? Let’s all calm down and relax a bit, Bumblebee 's employee has virtually nothing to worry about, no one is going to move any goal posts, they can’t, period. He won’t be deported.
Sometimes it isn’t about actually getting deported. The stress and reality that many legal immigrants will not show up for work etc… is real. Being hassled by the police and having to show you are legal after getting swept up in a raid is a real consequence even if in the end they do not get deported. But all you care about is that they will not get deported no matter what other hassles they have to deal with.
This may sound callous but at the end of the day that’s a “cost of doing business” being an immigrant sometimes. If they’re here legally it’s an inconvenience. Is that possibility of an inconvenience worth deporting someone who rapes 8 year old little girls? I say yes.
I once had an “Asian looking” girlfriend. She was sick of being asked where she came from. She is 8th generation Australian. Deeper roots than well over 90% of the country. When one friend, who should know better, met her she asked where she came from.
“Australia” she deadpanned.
“I mean your heritage”
“Originally mostly Chinese”
“Oh… you have such lovely skin and hair”
Fuck me. This is how “polite” racists make conversation."
So people cannot ask any question that relates to race/heritage without being branded ‘racist’? Asking someone where they live, or what they do for a living, is arguably more offensive. It’s more likely those asking the latter are ‘dick measuring’ rather than the former being genuinely racist. Damn ‘polite’ classists.
Are there even enough legal workers there (and willing) to do all these jobs the illegals are undertaking? It’s all great to target the genuine criminals and undesirables, but if employers can’t find legitimate replacements that inconvenience is going to be passed on to consumers.
Yeah, I’ve seen from DEI training and such that asking that sort of stuff is now a big no no. We got an email at the beginning of the school year telling everyone that basically we shouldn’t ask foreign students anything about where they are from and such.
Seems ridiculous to me. It should be apparent from the conversation if a person is asking because they are curious and want to get to know you vs. being a racist asshole.
One of my go to questions for all of our new students I meet is almost always where are you from?
Look up what happened in GA in 2011. They cracked down on undocumented workers and it cost the state an estimated $300 million in rotten crops. For weeks/months farmers tried to get people to work the fields. People would show up and then just walk off after an hour or so because it was too hard. That cost is just one state. I can’t fathom the economic impact nationwide.
Things have costs. If it is expensive enough maybe there would be immigration reform and we could get an actual policy that isn’t open borders or no immigration