• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Finally. Someone willing to talk about the issue other than, “ALL IMMIGRANTS GOOD!” And if you don’t believe that, you’re a racist fuck.

    Been beat up, here and on reddit, in past years for stating that, yes, we had a nightmare at the southern border. Officials were overwhelmed and under financed, immigrants faced a fucking humanitarian disaster. People were suffering and dying and what did liberals have to say? “Man, fuck you, it’s not true, it’s Fox News propaganda.” Meanwhile, the population of Chicago flooded in, year after year. How the fuck are we supposed to create the infrastructure and housing for America’s 3rd largest city, every year. (I got numbers to back that, but I doubt any here give a shit.)

    And JFC, no liberals are bitching about the modern-day slavery aspect. I’ve seen very few positing that we should go after business owners. “Just pay them fairly!” All for it, but the grocery bill is going to explode. And we’re just now seeing the results of running them off, only just begun.

    Yes, only Americans are racists for wanting to control our borders. Meanwhile, in Europe, where anti-immigration sentiment and protests are spiking… silence. (I think this is mostly down to overpopulation, but that’s a whole 'nother rant.)

    Don’t start me on assimilation. My wife is Filipino. Her and all of her friends have assimilated nicely, thank you very much. Meanwhile, the dudes at the taco truck can’t take an order, from a very limited menu, in English. Had always figured people like that were brand new. We took one of my wife’s coworker’s kayaking. Cool guy. Gay Honduran, walked 30-days to get here. Fucking tough enough for me! He didn’t know words like, “boy”, “girl”, “year”, “please”. Assumed he just got here, OK with that. Nah. He has been here for 5 years.

    We need immigrants, but we are fucking it up so badly I can’t get my head around the stupidity.