There is a curious narrative emerging from Democratic politicians and pundits in support of the millions of undocumented persons who entered under the Biden Administration: they are perfect for menial tasks. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas) even argued that we need Hispanic immigrants to do things like pick our cotton. That seemed to echo the sentiments of Rep. Jerry Nadler (D. N.Y.), who warned that, without undocumented workers, we would not have anyone to pick our crops. Not to be outdone, Rep. Becca Balint (D., Vt.) opposed the efforts of the Trump Administration to close the border and deport unlawful immigrants because “we’re not going to have anyone around to wipe our a–es.” I wonder why Democrats are losing Hispanic voters.
Regarding the belief that we need illegal aliens to work meet our labor demands for jobs Americans will not do:
A. The reason Americans will not to these jobs is the pay is too low. Raise the wage and Americans will happily do them. You may not like how much the wage has to be raised but that would solve the problem.
B If we don’t have enough workers, or if we don’t want to pay the salary required, allow guest workers to meet our employment needs. It works as follows:
1 the worker adds his name to the bottom of a list on the internet for a particular job.
2. When his name comes to the top of the list, he undergoes a background check
3. If he passes the background check, he gets a work visa to come to the U.S for a stated period of time such as 1 year or 2 years
4. During that time, he is free to travel back to his home country to take care of personal business, visit family, etc.
5. Whin his work visa expires, he has to go home, add his name to the bottom of the bottom of the list, repeating the cycle from step 1
6. If he is found in the US after his visa has expired, or if breaks US laws, he is out of the guest worker program
We should not live in fear of offending certain demographics like people should not live in fear of offending tyrants like Hussein, Assad, Qadaffi, Putin, etc.
Hussein, Assad, Qadaffi, and Putin are not tyrants. Zelensky is a tyrant. Netanyahu is a tyrant. Ahmed al-Sharaa is a tyrant.
Blacks are leaving the Democratic plantation of ‘government benefits. Democrats need new ignorant and scared slaves. Illegals can be financially abused as the fear deportation. Illegals fit that bill perfectly.
Open borders rigs the system against blue collar workers. If you’re a skilled worker, who expects a commensurate wage, work comp, insurance, and a job site that meets OSHA, you cannot compete with someone who will work for less, cash under the table, who will work without OSHA compliance. Meanwhile, Democrats make faces, and mock you as a “Murrican who thinks they’re coming for our jobs.”
Other countries somehow manage without a massive illegal labor force.
Interest on debt now costs 50% more than defense. Please show your arithmetic (it’s not “math”) that this is good and acceptable expenditure of funds. IOW eph Trump, Elon is right.
This was the “who will pick the cotton” defense of slavery.
Before Democrats’ open borders scheme, crops were picked by American citizens and green card holders. It was the influx of illegal immigrants that changed entire industries.
Landscaping companies that paid a fair wage, and were knowledgeable in horticulture, could not compete with illegal alien crews who were paid cash, no work comp, or other benefits. Within a few years, you could no longer find a landscaping company other than illegals, topping trees and hacking bushes with hedge trimmers.
The construction industry faced the same pressure, where companies that hired illegal aliens underbid those who employed citizens and legal residents, paid work comp, carried bonds, etc. Homeowners go with the lowest bid, and before long, crews who spoke no English were not meeting building codes in their work.
When all immigrants come through legally, there will no longer be widespread cash under the table workforce that drive businesses who follow the law right out of business.
This is one of those days I wish JT would purge all comments and begin again! Where did they go so far off track?!
Which comments? Res Ipsa comments or Trump vs Elon Musk comments? They’re all a reflection of who we are a civilization, JG Gordon. I’ve been stating as such on this forum for years
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Just enjoy the memes.
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Trump should set that red Tesla he bought on fire on the White House lawn.
EVs suck anyway.
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I wish Biden were alive to see this
Clown World ™ 🤡
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Steve Bannon calls for the Trump team to “seize SpaceX tonight, before midnight.”
We’re not China. You don’t just “seize” a private company because you’re mad
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There are too many banger jokes to retweet right now. Sensory overload
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Has someone tried unplugging Musk and Trump and plugging them back in?
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Never have two men needed their phones taken away more than right now.
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“This is one of those days” happened long ago, long before the election.
The dembots invaded en masse with the intent to destroy Professor Turley’s constitutional (i.e. conservative) positions, Trump’s victory, and this site.
Freedom of Speech has unintended consequences.
I’m usually in-sync with Prof. Turley, so I’m inclined to think I’m misunderstanding or exaggerating his anti-government emphasis here.
I do believe it is the intent of the Constitution (at least since the Civil War) to right-size the government whenever the apex of the economic pyramid shifts the the law’s emphasis from balanced protection of property and non-property civil rights to conspicuous preference for the former. Protection of property is just as fundamental a freedom as any any other, and just as essential to Democracy as egalitarianism in general.
When you read Trump-hating craziness on this blog, remember the source. These are the people who hate Trump:
Men should play in, and dominate, women’s sports. Further, children’s genitals should be mutilated and their parents should not have any say.
– The Dems
Men should invade women’s safe spaces like locker rooms and showers.
– The Dems
The border should be open for child sex trafficking and fentanyl importation to poison Americans.
– The Dems
America should spend hundreds of billions on a vast money laundering operation that runs through Ukraine to make DC politicians and arms merchants wealthy beyond their dreams by stealing the hard-earned money of American citizens and transferring it to them, because Putin man bad.
– The Dems
ICE agents should be doxxed and their spouses and children put in physical danger because orange man bad.
– The Dems
Domestic energy production should be shut down because we’re members of a green cult with no mental capacity at all, and we should import energy from terrorist-supporting nations so terrorists will have more money.
– The Dems
We should defund the police and have high levels of violent crime in American cities.
– The Dems
We should let other nations have massive tariffs on US-made goods so that our companies go bankrupt, but let them have free access to the American market with no tariffs because their industries should thrive while ours die.
– The Dems
There should be huge regulatory burdens on American businesses so as to crush small dynamic companies that might otherwise innovate.
– The Dems
We should have DEI everywhere so that merit is never the measure of success, but rather, skin color is all that counts, and it determines whether someone is a bad oppressor or a virtuous victim, thereby reducing the competence in every field of endeavor.
– The Dems
I think Dems would put it much differently: They support social security, medicare, medicaid, education, and the environment.
Meant to say Citizen (not City)
No, they don’t support any of those things.
….and if paying for all these things screws the young people, too bad. I got mine!
The D brand cult only supports these “things” as long as they can pump out the cash to illegals and those with no ID. Also they only support ‘education’ on their terms – as in indoctrination in place of learning , and god forbid critical thinking is taught.
“When you read . . .”
Good list.
Except for this: “We should let other nations have massive tariffs . . .”
Which amounts to:
Your neighbor shoots a hole in his boat. You respond by shooting a hole in your boat.
That is mutually assured suicide.
Your neighbor shoots a hole in his boat. You respond by shooting a hole in your boat.
No, it is leveling the playing field and strengthening one’s hand. Your analogy should be: your neighbor shoots a hole in your boat and you don’t patch it up, and furthermore, you encourage him shoot more holes in your boat.
“Your analogy should be: . . .”
Pretty sure that compelling American companies and consumers to pay for Trump’s tariffs is shooting a hole in your own boat. As is the massive uncertainty caused by those tariffs. As is the protectionism.
As is their horrendous implication: That government central planning is bad — unless Trump is The Planner.
We have an entire region of our country called the rust belt: hollowed out towns, drug addicts, steel plants sitting idle while the factories rust, etc. China doesn’t have that. China shot a hole in our boat by dumping steal. That’s just one example.
Ensuring a level playing field is not central planning. It’s fulfilling government’s core mission of setting the stage for individual private competitors to compete in a fair ballgame where the rules will not favor one side or another, and the winner is based on merit. Trump’s tariffs are reciprocal: whatever they do to us, we do to them. If they get rid of tariffs so will we, but if they hike tariffs up, so will we.
“Trump’s tariffs . . .”
By what right does government compel a company (or a consumer) to pay a higher price for its purchases? That is what tariffs do. They are the government injecting force into a free market transaction. They are the government abridging a company’s inviolate right to contract.
Your woozy metaphors notwithstanding, tariffs are price controls — a central feature of a command economy. And they are a massive tax on companies and consumers — which is government confiscating their wealth.
“. . . the rust belt . . .”
Your attempt to blame China’s “dumping” for that decline is laughably false. That region began declining in the 50’s and 60’s — long before China became a major steel producing country. And that region today is becoming a high tech and research powerhouse.
“Trump’s tariffs are reciprocal”
Some are, many are not. It’d be nice if those supporting Trump’s tariffs actually knew what they were talking about.
“Ensuring a level playing field . . .”
Which, of course, has been the calling card of socialism since its inception.
Such is the evil you endorse when you mindlessly use elastic slogans.
“I wanted to be co-president; they didn’t tell me there’s no such thing as co-president.”
“I’m brilliant; I didn’t know that words mean things and presidents do the things they say with their words.”
“There will be a recession in the second half of this year; who would have ever thunk that a president would put a recession in his first year—that’s never been done before.”
– Elon
I wonder if Elon’s DOGE team got Trump’s tax records when they infiltrated the IRS ???
ALREADY RELEASED ANON!!
The Trump haters are displaying their derangement this evening in a form that is ostentatious even by their usual flagrant standards on this blog. They can hardly get a wink of sleep at night because all they ever think about is President Donald J. Trump, the Commander in Chief, and it drives them coockoo!
*. Professor, your post today choosing the comments of representatives of least intelligence and using curse words opened the worst comments seen to date.
OT: Listening to the news about fentanyl confiscation today and demands made on Canada and Mexico caused me to pause and wonder what kind of neighbor we really are. If it weren’t for the huge number of drug abusers in the US neither nation to the north and south would be under any pressure.
That’s all…