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You don't need motivation, you need self-control.
You don't need more resources, you need resourcefulness.
You don't need luck, you need preparation.
You don't need to be busy, you need to be focused.
You don't need to know everything, you just need to start.
You have everything you need.
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So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?
(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)
Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.
I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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The likes of Cruz and Abbott make me cringe. Neither able to take responsibility for anything. Abbott blaming immigrants on increased Covid numbers, is like tRump blaming China for the virus. Such blatant xenophobia. And Cruz has taken a top place in my list of most deplorable of the crew of deplorables.
It’s worse. The virus actually did start in China. The 1918 pandemic started in Kansas. Immigrants are actually lowering the rate of covid, when not jammed together by ICE, just as immigrants lower the crime rate because they commit fewer crimes. Abbot is desperate to distract attention from his massive power grid failure.
David here, also in MA: One of the very best ways to slow transmission in a pandemic is to shut the borders. It's not helping us to be letting infected immigrants into our country. Biden, who I otherwise think is terrific, got us into this mess by saying essentially he wasn't going to deport anyone.
And, it's important to realize that the flow of low/no-skilled immigrants has put millions of American workers out of work and caused their wages to stagnate and tank. A generation ago, meat packers…
I'd be willing to bet that infected immigrants have far less to do with virus transmission in the US than irresponsible US citizens moving inter and/or intra state and internationally.
I'd also posit that meatpacking consolidation and automation had a far greater impact than did immigrant labor. It's convenient and easy to blame the other.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/41108/18011_aer785_1_.pdf%3Fv%3D0&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjIyJjr-7HvAhVmm-AKHRpoDYMQFjAMegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw0jWi7bMsCEA8bo69tLw72A
You're probably right about infected immigrants. But COVID-19 is enough of a problem without our importing more of it.
The flood of immigration since legal immigration was doubled to 1 million annually in the early '90s has had the same effect on a lot of job categories, many of which cannot be automated, such as hospitality and construction. I'm not blaming immigrants. I blame Congress for enabling ***too much*** immigration, and the Feds for not enforcing our laws, as well as states with sanctuary laws and drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants and other laws that enable illegal immigration.
You might find this Nicholas Kristof column enlightening. (But bear in mind that he's wrong about any need for tech workers from abroad--with them, its the same phenomenon of companies importing them for cheap labor, and forcing fired American workers to train their replacements, and much unemployment among US tech workers.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/opinion/compassion-that-hurts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html
