The Right-Wing Disinformation Machine

Archy1221 said:
Enrollment in Medicaid and federal food assistance and welfare programs surged. So did rents and vehicle accidents, including a collision last year when a Haitian without a U.S. driver's license drove into a school bus, killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark and injuring 26 other children.
The number of affordable housing vouchers fell as landlords moved to market-based rents that were rising in the face of higher demand, a blow to existing residents relying on them.
 

Local rents did increase at the third-fastest pace among cities from May 2022 through the end of 2023, rising at a 14.6% annualized pace, data from Zillow shows. But the market also appears to be normalizing: Rents this year have risen at a modest 3.2% pace, 68th fastest among 400 cities sampled.
Local wages were slow to take off during the post-pandemic job market reshuffling, data from Chmura Economics & Analytics' JobsEQ shows. But through the years associated with rising Haitian immigration, wages grew at a more than 6% annual pace for more than two years, about twice as long as seen nationally.
As Powell suggested, the process may have run its course. With the national labor market also cooling, wage growth in Springfield is down to 1.1%, job openings remain strong but the pace of hiring has slowed, and the unemployment rate has started to rise - faster here than nationally.
 
 
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Yeah...it's just horrible that these LEGAL immigrants moved to a town that had jobs.  Sure....there are then issues the community has to deal with.  That happens all over the place.  It has happened in communities like Lexington NE where Mexican immigrants moved there to work in the packing plant.  You also know what?  The community adjusted and it's a perfectly fine community that has welcomed those immigrants.  Now, there are various African immigrants that have moved there and, again, they are adjusting.  I know one of the HR managers at the packing plant.  He's from Congo.  He's talked to me about how part of his job is to work with the various community organizations (school, chamber, churches...etc) to welcome and acclimate the various immigrant groups.

You know what hasn't happened?  The community didn't make up s#!t like how they are eating cats to turn the public against the LEGAL immigrants.

You know what is also interesting?  This isn't something new.  My father tells me about how, in the 1920s and 30s, a big wave of Mexican immigrants moved into our community to work in agriculture.  We were heavy in producing potatoes and sugar beats at the time and these people worked in the fields.  Many of my friends in school were descendants of those first Mexican immigrants from that era.

But....for some reason, Republicans now have a problem with brown immigrants moving into a community to work in industries and become part of the community.

 
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Trump: "You see what's happening with towns throughout the United States. You look at Springfield, Ohio, you look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They're taking over buildings. They're going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden let into our country, and they're destroying our country. They're dangerous. They're at the highest level of criminality, and we have to get them out."

Trumpy Mayor of Aurora: "It's grossly exaggerated, in terms of what the current situation is- and very disappointing," said Coffman. "The impression is that the city was overrun, you know, by criminal gangs. By immigrants, and Venezuelan gangs. And certainly, that is not the case."

MAGA: "That's not what he said and if it it is what he said it's not what he meant even though we all heard it and can read the transcript".   

Lol...more like the new era of gaslighting 

 
Scarlet said:
Trump: "You see what's happening with towns throughout the United States. You look at Springfield, Ohio, you look at Aurora in Colorado. They are taking over the towns. They're taking over buildings. They're going in violently. These are the people that she and Biden let into our country, and they're destroying our country. They're dangerous. They're at the highest level of criminality, and we have to get them out."

Trumpy Mayor of Aurora: "It's grossly exaggerated, in terms of what the current situation is- and very disappointing," said Coffman. "The impression is that the city was overrun, you know, by criminal gangs. By immigrants, and Venezuelan gangs. And certainly, that is not the case."

MAGA: "That's not what he said and if it it is what he said it's not what he meant even though we all heard it and can read the transcript".   

Lol...more like the new era of gaslighting 
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I wonder why they need to make up s#!t about immigrants. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Not really apropos of anything, but Haiti may be the saddest and s#!ttiest country in the entire world. 
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Same could have been said of Ireland during the famine. And a TON of Irish immigrated to America. And they faced the same discrimination and hatred that Republicans are spewing about Haitians today.

Turns out, none of those Irish ever did anything positive for this country. The racists were right. We've never benefitted in the slightest from that era of immigration. 

Ope. 

 
knapplc said:
Same could have been said of Ireland during the famine. And a TON of Irish immigrated to America. And they faced the same discrimination and hatred that Republicans are spewing about Haitians today.

Turns out, none of those Irish ever did anything positive for this country. The racists were right. We've never benefitted in the slightest from that era of immigration. 

Ope. 
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You know who is way too woke? The Statue of Liberty.

 
All this has made me realize there's always cultural growing pains with immigration. For instance in the Detroit metro companies had to tell the Bengali workers to clean up the water that was splashed all over the place when they ritually washed themselves with the sink, and to stop standing on top of the toilets when they were s#!tting.  :lol:

But the companies also learned to provide prayer rooms and work to accommodate their needs while fasting during Ramadan. Everybody has to adjust.

 
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