Foreign wars kill volunteers and churn the MiC, Illegal immigration destroys everyones community and ability to govern. To try and boil them down to mere digits is on the same level of accuracy as saying nobody would be poor if we just raised the minimum wage to $50/hr.
you responded in earnest so I pick you of all the mostly very well put responses from other kiwis expressing very similar points, I like and respect what your saying and most importantly AGREE
You have all missed my point, likely my own fault for losing it in translation but let me put it plainly
The government or whoever you want to call it, the guy who is singing off on and ok taking 8 TRILLION from you and your kids and grandkids for more or less nothing is ok with if not exberient about the ability to keep you surrounded by illegal immigration as the cost they represent is a drop in the bucket to profit the powers that be make off their cheap labor
its also a multicafted issue, if there is a labor pool below "dirt poor" or a underclass its just one more powerful lever of oppression against the masses, "Ohh you dont want to work 48 hours a week for 7% more than starvation wages? Baljeet and his 10,000 cousins can survive on half the calories you can and don't bitch and moan about work-life balance'"
On top of this the jobs we really dont like thinking about (like crop picking) are all done by a group of people that can tolerate such brutal work as it would be what they are doing in their home country but without quite as many gangs running around. there is no threat to unionize or asks for breaks or raises from these workers and if they do they can be intimidated with threat or the actual usage of deportation.
So on top of massive profits, a near slave like mentality of the labor pool (good for long term stability and growth) as well as they psychological aspect of "My boss could always replace me with a harder working immigrant for a fraction of the price" is invaluable to them
All that to say, trump is making a decent show of getting some of these clowns but its a deeper issue than "not able to do it" the power brokers will start to flex their might if their bottom line is touched in any appreciable way
Those who know about California know that if ICE wanted to get RECORD numbers of illegal immigrants they would drive from Bakersfield to Modesdo and you dont even need to get off the damn highway and every single field you pass will be those dark brown guys with big ass hats picking strawberriers and almonds and shit. But they went to the second largest city in the country to make a big show of going into home depot and shit. Ill bet you there is more illegal immigrants in the cenrtal valley than texas but they wont ever touch them beacuse they giant farm companys would raise holy hell.
