Using the Military for Mass Deportations

[Mik]

@Horace said in Using the Military for Mass Deportations:

Might have to start mowing my own lawn.

Now you're scaring me.

Oh, wait - my guy's an Anglo-Saxon citizen.

[George K]

Although not technically a deportation , remember when the national guard of Massachusetts “transported “a bunch of “migrants “out of Martha’s Vineyard and onto Cape Cod?

[LuFins Dad]

@taiwan_girl said in Using the Military for Mass Deportations:

Well, we may find out. I would still estimate that more than 50% of people who hand pick crops in the field are illegal.

I would also estimate that greater than 50% of the typical Chinese buffet restaurant staff, which you see in pretty much every US town, is staffed by illegals. I also estimate that a lot of the waitstaff and servers do not work for any salary but just make their money in tips. The owner has a house nearby with multiple bedrooms where the staff stays. Usually 12 hour shifts, with one day off per week.

And you don’t see the very real problem with that?

[LuFins Dad]

And again, the official population of the United States in 2019 was 328M. There were plenty of low income agricultural workers and restaurant workers keeping prices and wages low. Today, there are 343M. At least 10M of the 15M increase are undocumented migrants that came to the US since 2019. If you deported every single one of those illegal aliens, you still have all of the low cost labor pool that you had in 2019. There would be minimal cost increases due to labor shortages.