re: #24 No Malarkey!

If Trump actually regained power and enacted his promised mass roundup and deportation of immigrants, it will devastate the economy. Boomers are retiring at a faster pace than young Americans are entering the workforce; even if Americans were willing to engage in physically demanding, dangerous, low wage work, there simply aren’t enough of us to replace undocumented immigrants who do that work now.

The Brits kicked all the “foreigners” out as part of Brexit to the promise of “Jobs for Britons!” 4 years later, the government rolls remain as packed as they did before Brexit, food banks have far more users than they did 4 years ago, and Tory efforts to address this in the traditional conservative fashion of demanding work-for-benefits and legalizing child labor have had little success beyond coming up with new ways to blame everything from COVID to the EU.