There are only 2 million unemployed Americans right now. Most of the illegal immigrants have jobs and fill in the gaps, such as working on farms and factories. If the 20 million illegal immigrants are deported, want that create a massive laborer shortage? Won’t the work follow the workers to Mexico?
exactly. we changed dance partners once (a needed change - biden was likely to give trump a squeaker victory) and now we kinda have to dance with the “2nd one we done brung”.
wish special interest money had not knocked off progressives in the primary. just have to hope that remaining progressive voices has some amount of backchannel influence and I think there is cause for that hope.