Trump Admn Closes Loophole for Migrants Awaiting Green Cards

Complete waste of taxpayer resources.
Designed to harm America.

"Could you explain to the class how making immigrants follow our laws on their pathway to citizenship a waste."

The new rule will cost everyone more time and more money.

But those costs provide no benefit to the future Americans, and no benefit to present day Americans either.

Since you disagree, explain who benefits from this. (You can't do that.)

I guess you think the good that comes from this is migrants will lose their jobs.

You think it benefits America, when there are fewer people working in America.

I suppose you expect those jobs will get re-staffed with inferior Americans who didn't get those jobs over the higher quality immigrants.

So you think it's good for the American economy for businesses to fire their preferred employees and replace them with lower quality workers.

The amount of Biden/Harris allowed to flood this country are a huge resource drain. You may want to look at that waste of money first.
#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

No it wasn't.
Show me the money.
You can't do that either.
You are nearly pure in your protective ignorance.

Doing nothing is costing the taxpayer a lot of money. These people are resource drains.
#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds

How much money?

Do they cost as much as the $150 billion ICE budget?

You have no way of answering that question, because the answer is "No."

Are you even capable of acknowledging these basic economic truths? No.

Republicans simply don't understand how the American economy works.

Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has observed that more than 8 million undocumented immigrants are currently working in the U.S in fields such as construction, agriculture, hospitality, etc. In that sense, they could predict that mass deportations would not open these positions up, but instead lead to 44,000 fewer jobs for U.S-born workers, ultimately causing a 2.6% to 6.2% decrease in GDP over the next decade (Payan & Rodrguez-Snchez, 2025).
www.colorado.edu

The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown
The U.S.-born workers most negatively affected, the economists find, seem to be men with "at most a high-school education" who work in sectors that rely on undocumented labor and were hit the hardest by ICE arrests and deportations.
"We find that for every six fewer undocumented workers working in a local labor market, that there is one fewer U.S.-born worker working in that labor market," East says.
www.kpbs.org

The Many Victims of Trump's Immigration Policy -- Including the U.S. Economy
Immigrant workers also contribute some of their wages to Social Security and Medicare, even though they do not receive benefits from those programs. In 2022, immigrants living illegally in the US paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes and $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes. The loss of this tax revenue concerns many economists since the Social Security fund is already expected to experience shortfalls by the mid-2030s.
So removing millions of existing workers, and intimidating millions more, is starting to shrink the workforce, drive up business costs and consumer prices, and reduce the economy's productivity.
thefulcrum.us

These people are resource drains. Healthcare, municipal services, food, assistance in many forms, housing shortages etc...
#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Quite the opposite.
Immigrants account for approximately 18% to 20% of the total U.S. healthcare workforce.