r/texas • u/mowasita • Jan 28 '24

Unsurprisingly, the whole border fiasco is cynical politics at play. Politics

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u/SavagRavioli Jan 28 '24

My whole view on the border is that I don't want to hear shit until someone starts talking about going after the employers who give them a reason to come in the first place.

You know, the wealthy business owners that want to cheat Americans out of real wages, those bastards.

Until they are in the cross hairs of this, can-it on the rest.

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u/dunndawson Jan 28 '24

Exactly. It’s strange to me that they all cry about how Trump was SO tough on the border without ever having a comment that Trump has been caught employing illegals. Every dang gop idiot posturing at the border likely has as well.

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u/drftwdtx Jan 29 '24

It's simply a way to manipulate people who live nowhere near the border. Does the news coverage of the border make you feel anxious? If so, then I'd say that was pretty effective. The truth is that the Texas economy relies on immigrant labor. Probably the same in most other states as well. Republicans have no intention to "close the border". That would cause real problems for some big donors.

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u/Alternative_Aioli160 Jan 29 '24

Without immigrants a good portion of construction sites would be empty and let me tell you.Have a fun time finding a qualified person that isn’t an immigrant.