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Mark Bryant's avatar

Excellent analysis.

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Herodotus II's avatar

Thank you for a well-written, must-share piece. I'd not even considered this part of the equation. (And a bonus kudo for sharing SA's "burrito antifada"!)

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Ardath N Blauvelt's avatar

Hmmm. Very interesting. The name of the game at every level and in every instance seems to be a form of money laundering of very dirty money.

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williamharris's avatar

The difficulty with this take lies in the noise of the administration: let’s grant that this may be a legitimate target, but there remains broad actions by the government that quite apparently do not possess this sort of strategic purpose. In a contrary fashion, such actions appear to be a better fit with the public statements from within the administration, notably of Stephen Miller, a view further reinforced by the seeming back-tracking of the President on raids at certain types of establishments. Moreover, this element of disrupting money laundering would appear to be a fine hook for the warranting of a broader anti-immigrant policy, yet this rationale has (apparently) been lacking. So is there a fire here? Perhaps, but contextual evidence provides some significant caution to such a conclusion.

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Adam's avatar

The protests are the “my tax dollars vs also somehow my tax dollars” meme

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Susan Steffner's avatar

Interesting perspective...

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G.W. Borg (Shadow Democracy)'s avatar

Remittances are a well-known piece of the immigration picture. But when immigration percolates up as a hot issue, media avoid the subject and instead focus on taxes paid by illegals who will never receive benefits. I suppose that's true. But so is the remittance factor.

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