Question to our US friends: Do you think your Title 42 expiration could be an inflection point?

submitted by hfxB0oyA from self.AskSaidIt

So, I saw this tweet from Trump ally Kari Lake, stating that "There are 700,000 illegal immigrants waiting along our southern border for Title 42 to expire."

The thought that this brought up for me was; is this the moment where the water floods over the dam? Is this when the media narrative breaks down and people stop listening to the WH saying "everything's fine" when there are a hundred video clips online of a sustained stream of people crossing the border? Is this where twenty buses a day are sent to each sanctuary city and the Biden voters see firsthand the human scale of the situation?

And if so, what happens in a country that is so divided against themselves? Does this constitute the final flip of people away from legacy news channels and towards independent journalism? If so, how many people who were blissfully going about their days being soothed by their TV channels are going to experience a massive and immediate loss of faith in their institutions when they finally listen to the on-the-ground reports and see that those reports have nothing in common with what they were being told?

What happens next? Or are things not so bad? I'm writing from outside the US, so I just don't know.

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[–]jerkwad152 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It'll never happen, but I'm in favor of shooting any of the 700K who steps over the border. That's a fucking invasion force.

[–]Ehhhhhh 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

While I have positive experience with Mexicans in my area, overall, the illegals are a drain on the system.

They get free medical and education that our tax dollars pay for. If they work, they claim max deductions so that minimal taxes are taken out. While education has already dropped severely in quality and usefulness, they were already dragging it down with other minorities. If a class has to accommodate an non-english speaking illegal alien, then it slows down the class and costs us more money.

If we need more workers, then we should allow them to come over legally. Shills like to lie and say that they just merely take jobs that we don't do, which is bullshit. Many are hard working but they do take jobs and resources from citizens as well as make all of our taxes higher.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

for every narrative, there is a counter-narrative. for example, one narrative claims that there exists a "sub-class" of "illegals" who "sneak" into the USA and take advantage of money giveaways at the worst, and at the best "steal" jobs that US people would gladly take. the counter-narrative is that there is a group of migrants who come to the USA, are given an extremely limited amount of money to get started, they go directly to work, picking our crops, cleaning our bathrooms, landscaping our homes, they pull themselves up by their bootstraps, doing jobs that natural born US people wouldn't be caught dead doing. choose your narrative, both have their own associated facts and data.

[–]hfxB0oyA[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm inclined to believe in the 'hardworking immigrants' narrative rather than the 'criminal scapegoats' one. That said, my question isn't about the worthiness of the migrants themselves. It's about the mood of the States and if people think this event would set something big off.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

You can bet your ass Texas will bus them to blue cities enmasse. Let them splain it to Brandon.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Perhaps you should count the zeroes in that number again.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

God I hope so, but I'm not optimistic. I thought DeSantis getting Mayor Adams of NYC to do a total 180 on immigration and say 'yes, this is national issue, not a Texas issue, pleaz halp' would move the bar but it didn't seem to.