It was a wedding, but yes!

I live in MN and have been getting calls stating that, “I need to come in to verify my papers and ensure I am a legit citizen”… I get these calls numerous times a day, starts in English and then goes strait to Mandarin and I don’t even fucking speak that! (9-10 a day).

I was born here by an American woman, who was also BORN here and a dad who came here LEGALLY with a SPONSOR and an American citizen and still am getting these bogus ass calls! I speak Cantonese and Spanish on top of English so hopefully they would send me back to my dads fam in South Vietnam but if not, I would be killed in north Vietnam due to my name and the war… so lovely… (back in the day I would be killed now I would just be shunned).

I am about to hop the boarder and try to get in to see what happens and then just live in Canada, I basically am already there here in MN! Haha!

Hey smuggle in some of that sweet sweet fentanyl to boost your profits

Dev here, checking exploit.

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Yeah, there’s no money so there’s no issue. WAD

My parents believe that democrats are giving “illegal” immigrants welfare.

We are a family of legal documented immigrants, there were barely any benefits for us (especially not the first 5 years), and anything that you could get is means tested and you need all your legal documents ready. Like wtf how do you expect undocumented immigrants of getting any welfare, wtf.

(No they do not watch fox news, its some news account thing that they follow on WeChat.)

And I’m brown enough I’m sure I could be confused as being “Mexican”.

I have two half-Thai, half-white cousins. One of them looks vaguely Mexican / Latin American and the other looks Japanese, and they got lots of shit for that growing up in Florida. Fortunately, that experience really taught them to respect and value immigrants and non-white people.

Just kidding – they’re actually hard-core white-supremacists and trumpers. The only reason trump isn’t their favorite person of all time is that they like DeSantis even better.

Prizes, you say?

I’m wondering if citizens will start self deporting.

The wording sounds like you need to be in the US without legal status. Think it’s like 90 days is the shortest allowed for vacation/business travel before your “illegal”. ~$11 a day is hardly worth the effort. You’re better off sneaking in and immediately self-deport.

So, like, I get your point and all, but think of this: American will be less brown! We’re cutting our nose to whiten our face!

-MAGA

They won’t be getting a 1000 dollars, but they will get a free flight to the nearest concentration camp. It’s a trap.

Definitely sounds like a trap.

(What follows is a slightly unrelated anecdote.) I knew a guy who was a tax preparer back in 2009 when Obama put out the “Making Work Pay” stimulus. You basically got a tax refund of like $400 per person if you met a pretty lenient criteria.

Well, my buddy told me that during the 2009 tax season, he would constantly have people coming into his office trying to file taxes, but they hadn’t filed in a few years. After hours of getting their paperwork together and running through the tax schedules for each year, the tax payer would find out that they owed thousands of dollars in back payments. Rather than file their taxes and paying the delinquent taxes, they would just say “yeah, all I wanted was the $400” and just walk out.

I’m sure the IRS cleaned up that year if anyone who owed was bold enough to actually file.

So we the people are giving them (allegedly) $1000 instead of the multiple thousands that they could have produced for the economy.

sigh. the world is significantly more complicated than that

The people are dissatisfied economically, and that’s why they voted for Trump.

So, what determines people’s income? Wages on the free labor market are determined through supply and demand.

When there’s a lot of supply of labor, i.e when there’s many people who could work in the country, high supply lowers prices. Prices for labor are also called wages. High number of people in the country --> lower wages. That’s where the “immigrants are taking our jobs” saying comes from. The point is not only that they’re taking jobs, but also that wages drop if there’s more supply in labor power.

(What these republican jackasses forget to mention is that this also affects the birth rate. A lower birth rate is good for the people because it means less supply of labor power --> higher wages in the future. Yet the republicans are consistently for a higher birth rate, which makes their whole point that they actually care about the economic situation of the people inconsistent.)

What these republican jackasses also forget to mention is that it’s not only about the supply of labor, but also the demand of labor. Higher demand means higher wages, and lower demand means lower wages.

Now, if you’ve ever built a house you will know that the vast majority of labor requirement goes into building the house, not maintaining it. The same is true for the economy. The economy grew rapidly in the last 200 years mostly because of technological inventions, which lead to a lot of real growth in the world and that created a large demand for human labor, which made wages rise high, which is why people could live comfortably in the 1960s on a single wage income per family.

The economy slowed down growth a lot in the last decades (+0.5% annually in 2019 compared to +3% in 1990) so that reduces the demand for human labor drastically. That’s why people earn less today than last century. If the republicans were honest, they’d recognize that fact, and they would respond by saying “ok, the free labor market doesn’t pay enough wages anymore to feed the people, so we need to help the people by giving them a universal basic income, financed by taxing the rich”. That would do significantly more to help the people than deporting immigrants, by the way, it would help at least 10x as much. That the republicans completely ignore this and don’t even speak about it shows that they are dishonest and do not have the people’s best interest at heart.

YUP