Red
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By all means fact-check the following. It is AI:
Based on recent estimates and research, the vast majority of the approximately 11 to 13.7 million undocumented individuals (or unauthorized immigrants) living in the United States are law-abiding residents who are economically active and living as neighbors in communities across the country.
Here is a breakdown of the data regarding the characteristics of this population:
- Workforce Participation: An estimated 74% to 80% of the undocumented population is employed, with approximately 7.6 million to 8.3 million working in the U.S. labor force. They make up just under 5% of the total U.S. workforce.
- Law-Abiding Status: Research indicates that undocumented immigrants are, on average, less likely to commit crimes or be incarcerated than native-born U.S. citizens. One study found that undocumented immigrants have a 41% lower criminal conviction rate than native-born Americans.
- Long-Term Residents: The majority of this population has deep roots in the U.S. Roughly 79% of unauthorized immigrants have resided in the United States for a decade or more.
- Family and Community Ties: About 38% of undocumented immigrants (roughly 3.9 million) are parents of U.S. citizen children, and 16% are married to a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.
- Economic Contribution: Undocumented immigrants are concentrated in industries such as construction, agriculture, hospitality, and manufacturing. They contributed an estimated $100 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2024.
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So, this is a lot more contextual than “illegals” I prefer “undocumented human beings”, which, considering Stephen Miller’s chosen method for deporting them is via a militarized above the law police force, is the least anyone can do to push back every effort to demonize and dehumanize them. The least we can do is acknowledge their humanity.
Reports have frequently mentioned Miller having meltdowns over not meeting the daily quota of 3000 arrests. He’s in a hurry, given the 11 million plus he wants removed. Given the true nuance of those millions of undocumented human beings, (and I get it that Trump did not run on any such context/nuance and Miller doesn’t care),when your chosen method is sending small armies into selected cities to perform what we see and what citizens there experience, it will indeed result in this:
View: https://x.com/maddenifico/status/2017729946580344986
Which is why going about things this way is so dumb. Trump understood the human nature of the particular flock he sought, by appealing to anger and hate, and he did so from day 1 in 2015. Appealing to people’s darker angels. And you lack the ability to even recognize that is what he was doing. A transparent con artist.
But somebody dropped the ball, Miller at the least, for not understanding human nature also has higher angels. People who care about their neighbors, and simply don’t like seeing the militarized violence toward citizen and non citizen alike are listening to their own higher angels. If one is on a crusade to rid America of everyone one’s white nationalism despises, chances are one’s darker angels have the reins. I think Stephen Miller forgot how much people really don’t like bullies, how many are willing to say “this is not America. This is not who we are”.
Appealing to anger and hate, letting the word “illegals” erase any closer look at who you are hurting, that does not work with all Americans.
Some of us are actually decent human beings.
And you don’t recognize it, or care in the least if you do, no more than Miller ever would. Cruelty is the point. You’ve slammed what you think America before Trump was ad nauseum.. But you don’t recognize a militarized police state in the making. That flies over your head. You don’t catch the hint when the cry baby gets ready for another sleight of hand with our elections.
I see citizens who care about their country, and for all our faults in our actions at times, still believe in all our ideals. These are the times when that happens. When people actually stand up for what is right. These are the times that try men’s souls, yes they are, and in our time, and these are the people that respond and say no to your style of ignorance. Some of us see human beings. You see “illegals”, and fascist mentalities don’t need more than that label. You’re bloviating from the wrong side of history.
View: https://x.com/zazzybritches/status/2018806905892933640
I don’t believe your history is a real history at all. Seems more like grievance than reality. You seem to believe in Trump’s “Hellhole America”. It doesn’t really exist. It was never anything but an excuse, a sleight of hand, bloviated in his daily tweets, while he fills his pocket with the greatest open display of graft at the highest level ever seen. Maybe you favor Miller’s fascist ethno-state as well. That’s Miller’s aim, so it’s the money grubber and the white nationalist. That’s a team for the ages, destined to have a very unhappy end methinks.
Far too many Americans understand that we are better than this.
Not good to sleepwalk through the history of one’s own lifetime.
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