I have a coworker who is vehemently anti-immigrant. One of the reasons she gives for this stance is that they come to this country unvaccinated and spread disease. Guess who is also anti-vax?

Brexit was the best experiment for that. They kick immigrants out so all jobs went to the local population. People didn't want them, produce was left in the fields, deliveries were not made, tables were not waited on and some companies folded. Anyway, immigration is now back and higher than it used to be, but from other countries.

This one also surprises a lot of people: They pay taxes. Undocumented Immigrants in the USA paid about 11.6Bn USD in taxes in 2019 according to ITEP.

Illegal immigrants actually pay into state and local taxes way more than legal citizens and green-card holders do.

And since they're here undocumented, they can't get anything in return for paying those taxes.

I have SSI it pays peanuts, if I didn't have a job ontop of it, I'd have nothing.

The rules are overly strict and an absolute poverty trap. I cannot legally have 2000 dollars to my name and anything I earn through ANY means must be reported meaning I CAN'T have a side hustle.

I need to stay on the program because my health insurance is tied to it, if I ever lost it I would be physically and mentally near death within a month.

I'm one of the people they're talking about when they mention Welfare Queens

Right-wing ideology doesn't have to be consistent - it merely has to shift the blame for society's ills away from those who caused them.

The anti-immigrant goons don't get the Schrödinger reference.

They shouldn't come here (but they're necessary to run my Florida landscaping business)!

Mass shootings in the news came up a couple o' days ago at work. It quickly devolved into it's all n-words shooting eachother, because that's what n-words do.

Did you know trump is gonna eliminate the income tax once he's elected?

I hate being in a red corner of a blue state.

I’m from a country that people wants to immigrate away. Even I do sometimes.

But at the same time I am disturbed by some actions of the minority of the immigrants who come to my country. I am leaning to be an anti-immigrant and because of that I feel hypocritical and xenophobic.

Sometimes I think it is cruel to be against immigrants because people do not choose their place of birth and their family, just like me.

I'm just not sure what is right, and this loop bothers me.

As such lovers of free market capitalism, shouldn't Republicans want immigrants to come here and compete for work so that corporations can get employees for the lowest wages possible?

Terking all er jerbs!*

FTFY

This kind of reasoning is consistent across all forms of bigotry. Having self contradictory believes about a demographic just so nothing they can do will be the right thing for them to do.

It's especially ironic to hear that from Americans lol my house is older than your country, what "immigrants" you are talking about

They move so slowly and lazily that they are invisible to the average human.