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People keep talking about "Federalizing the National Guard" and now you've got other States pledging their NG to Texas in defiance of the Supreme Court (see image).

So is this what CW2 looks like?

P.S. I'm a Brit

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[-] sharkaccident@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I never understood why Republicans hate immigrants. Low educated labor that is highly religious. And if crimes are committed, these people can fuel the incarceration complex America has as well.

[-] PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 7 months ago

It's red meat for the base. The corporate overlords who fund the republican party love the cheap labor they can exploit, and they love it even more because the republican party 'otherizing' the illegal immigrants gets them all sorts of leverage they can use against said labor, since the populace won't care what happens to them.

[-] drmeanfeel@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Republican voters hate immigrants. It's a target the GOP can point at while knowing the flow of cheap labor will continue from increasing desperation all while they "heroically fight at the border".

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

These are all reasons why they actually enjoy immigration. As a hot-button topic, this has paid out endlessly and will continue to because there's no way immigration will be solved peacefully. So they get the fearmongering and political outrage out of it, in addition to cheap labor, and bogeymen to pin rape/violence on as well. They're the perfect target for them to hate, and they love to hate. Nothing gets an old Republican fired up like illegal Mexicans coming here with their guns and drugs and taking our jobs and sending all the money back home and raping our daughters ("well not my daughter, but y'know" 🤠 ) and bringing caravans more of em in their wake

[-] Dippy@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

Same. Tons of hard working people that do a lot behind the scenes. But South Park probably got it right with ‘they took errr jerbs!’ Jobs they wouldn’t do themselves anyway.

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