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dickthegrouch

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22. Another little consequence of deporting undocumented workers

Reply to FightFight (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2025, 04:34 PM

Jan 13

Almost all the responsible articles about deportations talk about the workers paying into programs that they are extremely unlikely to collect from.
The corollary to employing citizens in those jobs is that they will have an expectation of collecting from the programs that Musk and TFG want to steal from.

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