@mastapasta01@emre_mayo@Paul_Melman@micsolana Few self-repatriate and deportations have only really occurred since Trump was elected. Obama's "deportations" were actually just catch and release at the border because he knew it sounded good. We never get an official number because we cant ask on the census. So yes, 50MM.
@mastapasta01@emre_mayo@Paul_Melman@micsolana 7 million illegals came in under Biden alone and the number was 20 million in 2005. On what earth do you think the number is 14 million.
I would like to remind people that my op-ed "Graham Platner is a Golden God and I Will Personally Wash His Feet and Anoint Him with Oils at His Coronation" was merely a piece of political analysis and shouldn't be viewed as any sort of advocacy.
@emre_mayo@kyawzazaw@micsolana Again, this is trying to reduce red tape (a good thing) by arguing with tens if thousands of land owners, counties, states, etc. or just drastically increasing supply and reducing demand by implementing already existing federal law.
@emre_mayo@Paul_Melman@micsolana It also only covers 2021-2024 illegals (7 million). Expand this data to the 50+ million here and you are in the ballpark of 30% (15% of pop [50MM/330MM] *2.2% of TOTAL home costs)
@kyawzazaw@emre_mayo@micsolana I’m not going through hurdles. You can negotiate with 1000s of counties and cities whose NIMBY policies are done on purpose across 50 states or you can immediately increase supply, reduce demand, and increase wages by implementing laws that already exist.
@emre_mayo@micsolana Gavin Wright, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2022) already proves that illegal and slave labor does not benefit the economy. The economy would not crash when we force firms to operate at fair market wages for legal residents. Illegal labor is overwhelmingly bad.
@emre_mayo@micsolana Instead of negotiating with red tape bureaucrats you can lower the average home and apartment costs by 30% and 20% respectively just by deporting all illegals. This drastically reduces demand in every major metro area in the country. Pick a city and I’ll provide an example.
@emre_mayo@micsolana Incorrect. Labor makes up a small portion of overall home costs. Illegals don’t build better homes. This undercuts US blue collar wages significantly. If you wanted to lower home prices by 40% you’d support mass deportations.
So I just walked by the Art Institute of Chicago where an elderly man, probably homeless, was sprawled unconscious, on the museum's front stone steps in the midst of a heat emergency.
I asked a museum security guard about it and she said she had woken him 3 times and suggested he move into the shade and he refused each time.
I called 911 and the operator said, "Well, is he ASKING for help?"
When I said no, she said, "Well I'm not going to send anyone."
So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun.
I guess that's how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.
Perhaps I should have tried to wake him to try and persuade him to move into the shade but I'm embarrassed to say I didn't. I moved on, like many others who simply ignored him.
I hope we're not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.
@ChicagosMayor; @Chicago_Police; @artinstitutechi.
It is deeply offensive to the sacrifices of those who came before us, that an illegal alien or chinese tourist can pop out a baby who is afforded all the privilege of U.S. citizenship.
The most shameful SCOTUS decision since Dred Scott. Antithetical to what America is about.