• @jordanlundM
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    He would have to give local police the authority first, right now they literally CAN’T enforce federal law.

    https://www.brookings.edu/articles/local-police-should-not-do-a-federal-job/

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/federal-judge-blocks-texas-law-that-gives-police-broad-powers-to-arrest-people-suspected-of-illegally-entering-u-s

    The too long, didn’t read… illegal immigrants aren’t breaking state or local laws, they are breaking federal laws.

    Local law enforcement does not have the authority to enforce federal laws, only federal officers can do that.

    • @Stovetop
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      229 months ago

      He would absolutely do that if it suits his agenda. Branding it as “empowering the nation’s police” or some bullshit like that will make the thin blue line crowd that constitutes a large chunk of his voters happy.

    • @MrNesser
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      89 months ago

      If a local law enforcement is required to uphold federal laws doesn’t that make them federal employees?

      • @jordanlundM
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        39 months ago

        You would think, and subject to federal pay and benefits, but also subject to government shutdown. ;)

  • @PoliticallyIncorrect
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    The question it’s what America would do without that cheap labor force…

    • shikitohno
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      A good chunk of restaurants will also suddenly close or have massive price hikes when they can’t count on taking advantage of undocumented people and paying them sub-minimum wage off the books.

      • norbert
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        A lot of people have absolutely no idea just how much of their food and housing is so cheap because of (often undocumented) immigrant laborers.

        • Drusas
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          Food, yes. But housing? How do you figure?

          Also, lol at calling housing “cheap”.

          • norbert
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            Every contractor out there uses undocumented labor. Drywall, roofing, landscaping, all skyrocket in price without the labor of immigrants.

            • @Fredselfish
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              The industry I work in "flooring " hope you don’t want carpet or floors install in your homes. Because 99% of the labor done by illegal immigrants.

              They are responsible for all the apartments in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area I know for a fact.

              And the reason they only ones doing it because what I been told by few older contractors is pricing for carpet installers hasn’t changed since the fucking 1990’s.

            • Drusas
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              That’s true. But you’re wrong about calling housing “cheap”, unless you’re in “flyover country”.

              • norbert
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                Cheap is subjective but if it makes you feel better to say “you’re wrong” then OK, thanks for contributing.

                It would be more expensive without undocumented labor.

                • Drusas
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                  Someone’s touchy about being corrected.

                  Whatever.

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      Rural America needs to decide what they want to have happen.

      • @HootinNHollerin
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        They’re too warped by identity politics to focus in any resemblance of solving problems

  • @xc2215x
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    29 months ago

    Had no idea police could be used that way. Yikes.

        • @PunnyName
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          309 months ago

          Ahh, black pilled. Don’t feel hopeful, eh?

          • @WhyYesZoidberg
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            Dude has lost it and just want to watch the world burn. Sad, really. Hopefully he manages to get some much needed mental health help.

            • @Warl0k3
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              I know how he feels, some days. It’s an extremely easy trap to fall into, and it’s damned hard to get yourself back out of it. There really isn’t much to be hopeful for right now. Most of the fucking morons are happy to let the world burn and take the rest of us with them. There’s countless genocides. Barely any nature remaining. No prospects for the future, social events are still on life support because of covid, the list goes on.

              It’s really hard to find something, anything, that you can grab onto and pull yourself out of the bleak pit of nihilism. I find myself cheering for the natural disasters more and more, and I hate myself for that. But its hard not to hope that there is some natural balance to things that will start to assert itself. Maybe the world really can recover from this, if all the damn humans would just die off.

              I’m lucky. My work lets me find some personal fulfillment in that I really am making a positive difference, and I have the data that demonstrates that. But its a small impact, and there’s not many of me out there. And as burnt out as I am trying to fix what little I can… its hard some days. Really really hard. And before you dismiss that painfully cringe edgelord, spare a thought that there’s no help to be had out there, for them or for me. We’re both on our own. But, fuck em for being an edgy little shit. Doesnt really help anyone, least of all themselves.

              • @PunnyName
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                09 months ago

                Solar Eclipse. Do that (it’s what I’m holding on to).

        • @Stovetop
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          269 months ago

          Here, tag yourself in this square :

        • TWeaK
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          Anything that speeds the collapse

          That’s not a good thing.

          frees minds

          Your mind isn’t free, you are ignorant. Trump is not your saviour, he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. You want to depose the financial elite, yet you lick the boots of the worst of them.

        • @mriormro
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          You’re truly a piece of shit.

    • @gmtom
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      29 months ago

      Go back to truth social mate. No ones buying your LARP