Comment by ciconia
4 months ago
I think if there's a rational reasoning behind Trump unleashing ICE and the national guard on the domestic population, this must be it: "the economy is doing really bad, and we need a smokescreen so people won't talk about it."
Hmmm kinda ties into the whole problem of well-off/happy people not being particularly eager to chant "foreigners out", but when they're desperate they take any explanation for their misery they can get their hands on that sounds workable (because, no, you can't go up to a billionaire and just "take all their stuff", but you CAN beat up a foreigner or other disadvantaged person that is worse off than you)
I think another reason for the recent global rise of anti-immigration parties is also that the relative economic value of immigrants (as unskilled labor) has gone down, and the "costs" (cultural/language friction) have become more visible.
> the relative economic value of immigrants (as unskilled labor) has gone down
As in "farmers don't find people to do the work (il)legal immigrants did" down?
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