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To me it's just an easy way to control people. Trump's admin doesn't want all immigrants gone. They just know it's easy to make people angry and manipulate what they vote for when they are angry.
Permenant worker Visas are up drastically in 2026 from previous years. Temporary work visas and travels for immigrants are occuring all over. But people like Trump don't care about the racism/division/mistreatment anyone else will ever encounter but himself.
So long as he can lie and keep repeating himself over and over and people believe it, that's all that matters for him.
If you tell someone fentanyl deaths per year ~doubled under Trumps 1st admin, and ~halved under Bidens admin most voters would have gawked at that and called it a lie when voting started in November 2024. Because they were told a million times he is tough on crime, and that the drug problem was from immigrants.
Yet.... All the facts never matched up. The candidates in my state right now are constantly running ads about how they are going to fight violent crime by deporting illegal immigrants who forced themselves into our country. (We are a landlocked state, like 1200 miles from the border). And all statistics show migrants are less likely to commit violent crimes. So you would actually do better at reducing violent crimes by looking elsewhere for the cause.
But why would they care about being wrong, all they have to do is keep repeating others lies as if they are true, and get a quick easy racist base they can build a campaign around.
Just this last week, Microsoft fires 4,000+ employees.... And asks the government to get approval for 2000+ visas for immigrants to fill positions.
Another fun one is teachers. I don't know a single state in the Union that would vote to lower teachers wages if they were asked individually/democratically. Yet more than half the voters voted to dismantle the department of education..
So if the DOE pays 12-14% of public education, de-funding that means either the Republicans were voting to INCREASE their state and local taxes to offset all that, or they were voting to decrease teachers wages...
None of it adds up other than getting a group of people angry, and making them dumber by agreeing with a group than thinking for themselves. They're giving litter boxes to kids in classrooms so they can be furries! The immigrants are eating the pets! They are forcing our kids to be gay! It doesn't need to be grounded in reality, once you have enough of them mad at something, you just throw other absurd shit in there and people will accept it more willingly.