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In reply to the discussion: What are we doing appeasing North Korea while threatening Georgia's economy? [View all]bigtree
(92,399 posts)...based in the abusive laws and regulations which have long been at the discretion of the government to enforce, applied by this administration to the degree that they're putting workers in chains and calling them criminals.
You characterize them whatever way you want, project whatever expectations that make you feel comfortable with the position you take about enforcement of the law in this case.
That doesn't make any of this right, and you can argue the law from here to eternity and you won't get a bit of agreement from me that people coming here to seek work and raise families are criminals because they haven't filled out the right form, or overstayed their visas.
They work in the factories that provide economic benefit to Georgia and the U.S., and pay consumption taxes without the benefits of citizenship, and support the local economy with what they spend.
I don't understand posturing against them like they deserve this treatment, but I do understand that this has been made into an accepted American attitude by politicians and others who can't see past their own antipathies toward foreigners who live and work here.
If Georgia residents want those jobs, they should be racing for the employment office. We'll see... I mean I'll see, because after the dust settles here, most people complaining about these foreign nationals working won't care a bit about the economy in Georgia, or this plant's success to bother to look.
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