I especially like it when the open Southern border is linked to aid to Ukraine. The border has been open for years. It was open all through the "build the wall" presidency. It was open during Obama. Open during Bush. Open during Clinton. And really open during Reagan. There was no Ukraine as a country during Reagan, so something else must have been to blame.
Yes, right now the border is open in a really crazy way. But there's nothing anybody will do about it. Have you been to a restaurant lately? Any restaurant, fast-food, casual, fancy, locally owned, a chain, any kind. Have you noticed anything? There are no workers. Everything is slow or doesn't happen at all. Even at $25 per hour for unskilled workers with no experience, you can't find people. Where I live, the local landmark restaurant that stayed open during COVID and defied the governor had to close because there's nobody to work. They survived COVID only to go out of business right after.
I have no idea why this is happening but with the terrible shortage of unskilled labor, there's zero chance anybody is going to crack down on an incoming flow of unskilled labor. If it didn't happen during the high unemployment of 2009-10, why would it happen now? I'm not saying, mind you, that it's a good solution. I don't think it is. But it's clearly the solution that was chosen and is being implemented. This is about Ukraine like I'm about to jump out of the window.
You can't solve a problem that you haven't diagnosed. And we are being distracted from doing exactly that by silly slogans and false analogies. No wonder that decades go by while the problem remains.
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