Some inconvenient facts about immigrants that MAGAs hope you ignore:
•Seeking asylum is a legal & human RIGHT, protected by the US Constitution and the UN Convention on Refugees (to which the USA is a signatory)
•Both documented AND undocumented immigrants have LOWER crime rates than US Citizens (and usually higher vaccination rates too)
•Undocumented immigrants pay MORE in taxes ($12B annually) than Trump ever has or will (and get none of the tax benefits)
RT if you learned something new!
@QasimRashid All true. The self-destructive behavior of Republicans truly astonishes me.
Latino immigrants are extremely diligent and eager about paying their taxes, buying a home, paying property tax, etc. Unlike most USians, who complain and avoid taxes as much as they can.
On the other hand, it's all about power. Republican politicians know that a large segment of the population responds strongly to xenophobia and hate, so that's what they push in the hope of taking over.
@QasimRashid @shuttersparks clarification: I edited my initial response, adding “bosses of.” Without that, my original wording incorrectly implicates the immigrants, not the real abusers of human rights
@shuttersparks @QasimRashid True. And many businesses rely on immigrant labor, including human-rights-abusing bosses of illegal immigrants.
CEOs and factory farms are all too happy to profit from the cheap immigrant labor—jobs that entitled white people don’t want—while donating disproportionately to anti-immigrant (and anti-union, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-education, anti-women, xenophobic, antisemitic, anti-democracy) GOP candidates.
Wave that flag!