• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    My feeling, which is all I can base this on, is that they want the folks who aren’t following the process because they don’t have to pay them as much. If someone is following the process they have to pay minimum wage. If someone hops the fence they get paid less, under the table, no benefits, and with the threat of ICE if they aren’t working themselves to death.

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
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      19 hours ago

      My question is because the news is consistently reporting on people who are following the process being detained. And your feeling doesn’t even match the fake claim, which is that they’re “going after criminals.” Which the numbers show they aren’t. So I’m really wondering if they’re going after low hanging fruit since the reality is that Trump is actually deporting roughly the same amount of people Biden did.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86p821p660o

      https://tracreports.org/reports/759/

      Most recent in my state was a business owner who had been here for decades but only just now started the immigration process under Biden just got taken. They cited a DUI, but the county DA said there’s no record of that.