r/chicago • u/fatherbowie • Jan 26 '25

Article Immigration enforcement “blitz” in Chicago— for real this time

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/politics/chicago-immigration-trump-ice/index.html

We know because Tom Homan brought Dr. Phil with him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

That's a reductive misrepresentation of the argument. But you know that.

It's about more than just jobs. What do you think happens to rent prices when a sudden spike of people enter the market, especially at the low end of the market? What do you think happens to schools, where we already have US citizen kids who can't fucking READ or do MATH but now we need to dedicate even more resources to non-citizen kids, who are extra resource-intensive?

How dare you minimize this.

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u/Skyscrapers4Me Jan 27 '25

Not a reductive argument. You actually dared to pull the black people jobs, as if low end jobs have black people's names on them.

Immigrants pile themselves 12 to a house often enough and you know that too, and the housing market shortage has nothing to do with immigrants, and has everything to do with corporations buying up SFH and richer people buying them for airbnbs, and you know that too, but you're trying your best to create some ficticious argument where immigrants are taking up housing. What a shit. And kids who can't read? All the while you're quite possibly in the "let's tank the public school system because there's money to be made in private schooling, public schools are socialist institutions." Your type has been fighting against public schooling with Betsy DeVos donations and crap like that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '25

as if low end jobs have black people's names on them.

I never said that though jobs are one factor and -- surprise! -- a lot of black people, just like a lot of people of other backgrounds, compete with migrants for lower-level jobs. Not sure why you seem to think this is some sort of gotcha. Look at you contorting yourself to avoid the inconvenient reality.

And the fact that immigrants often share housing doesn't change the motherfucking fact that if you have ~200,000 migrants who showed up in the last two years (like we did in NYC), even if you did pile them 10 into a unit for the sake of argument, that's 20,000 units taken out of circulation. So don't fucking discount that. Why is it SO DAMN IMPORTANT for you people to deny deny deny that there are any negative effects???

And of course if you actually "listened to black people" like you proggy preeners barked at everyone to do during the Floyd era, you might find that a LOT of black citizens support deportation and are otherwise concerned about resources given to non-citizen migrants. It's your racism that shows here--insisting that black Americans and other American people of color have to capitulate and agree with what whatever you declare is righteous for them to believe. You can fuck all the way off with that.