r/SouthJersey • u/djspacebunny Mod Salem County Xennial • 23h ago
News More than 80 years after their own families were locked up, these Japanese Americans say history may be repeating itself in their South Jersey community
https://www.nj.com/cumberland/2026/05/the-heartbreaking-reason-japanese-americans-are-protesting-ice-raids-in-this-nj-community.html13
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u/Much-Economics3481 BOOTLICKER 22h ago
This will anger many of you in this echo chamber. All people who enter the United States illegally should be deported back to their home country. If they leave on their own then they should be allowed to legally immigrate. If not, they should be forever barred from entering the country.
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u/rjnd2828 22h ago
Are we going to open up enough legal immigration or work visas to do all the work that those undocumented immigrants do today? Or is this just an overly simplistic comment with no relevance to the real world?
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u/AesirComplex 12h ago
You have the word economics in your name but don't seem to know much about it.
Back when I was in college my econ professor was actually pretty conservative but he was very much in favor with illegals coming in to work awful jobs for dirt cheap. Cheap labor makes economies go brr and when you remove that it has pretty awful downstream effects on that business, prices and the overall economy.
This is why Trump gave in and said farmers' undocumented workers will be safe from deportation. Because removing that cheap labor would have been catastrophic for everyone.
That's why conservatives just make me laugh. They care so much about prices of things yet are totally willing to fuck themselves over so we can deport undocumented migrants who have 0 effect on their lives, except making things cheap for them.
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u/Much-Economics3481 BOOTLICKER 22h ago
Which jobs are you speaking of? I hear there is a lot of unemployment, maybe the unemployed will fill the positions. This is relevant
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u/DicksOutForGrapeApe 20h ago
I’m unemployed and would rather continue to be so than pick fuckin blueberries in July
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u/Wild_Boysenberrry 13h ago
To be fair, there’s something to be said about immigrants willing to do that kind of work for next to nothing. A job so bad that no legal citizens are willing to do it for the price clearly means the pay should be higher. If the only people who would actually do it for the offered pay are in a vulnerable status, it means the employers are taking advantage of that. The employers are the real problem and should be offering higher wages instead of creating an ecosystem that treats humans like 2nd class citizens
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u/rjnd2828 21h ago
If you honestly don't know what kinds of jobs immigrants do that most Americans don't want then you should never comment on anything ever again. I assume though that you're feigning ignorance as opposed to being the least informed person in the entire state.
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u/SauconySundaes 21h ago
There’s no way you aren’t like a 55+ former IT guy who people thought would one day shoot up the office. Idk, that’s just the vibe you give off.
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u/Much-Economics3481 BOOTLICKER 21h ago
Does it matter?
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u/rjnd2828 21h ago
Only if you like to eat food or like things to be built or maintained. Assuming you don't need that stuff.
It's not an echo chamber, we're just not idiots.
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u/sundancer2788 14h ago
I've worked jobs where I'm outside in all types of weather for my entire shift which could be longer than 8 hours. I've worked jobs inside where I don't have to be in extreme heat, cold, wind, wet, etc. I'm not ever working those outside jobs again. The unemployed won't fill those positions for very long.
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u/Impossible_Walrus555 16h ago
Sickening. I’ll never forgive maga