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Originally Posted by Adder
Same re immigration, but my impression was that Biden rolled back some, but not all, of Trump's oppressive immigration policies, leaving him more restrictive than Obama. Immigration advocates have not been happy with him from the jump.
Not sure that any of that had anything to do with appealing to latino voters, though. Gets framed that why by Washington types.
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I think the Washington types hear or see the same "anecdata" (I hate it, too, but what else can one call it?) people around here relate to one another. That is, for reasons I don't understand, legal immigrants and children of immigrants seem to be most exercised about unlawful immigration.
Upper middle class white folks like yours truly don't seem to care a lot. Hence, I don't follow it.
I also happen to really like immigrants, lawful and unlawful. This stuff about many of them being violent welfare moochers has never been anywhere close to my experience in the more than 30 years I've been interacting with them. I've worked for a few. Maybe I wasn't supposed to do so... But clearly, I don't care about that. If a guy wants to set himself up in business and has worked hard enough to put himself into a position to do so, he's exactly the kind of person who ought to be incentivized to stay.
