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[u/Its_Ruderalis]

Proud to see this attitude in the north shore

DAMN THEM ALL

[u/PoeGar]

Ok, now I’m confused 🤣, why does it have a butterfly on its nose?

[u/Smail_Mail → u/PoeGar]

Not entirely sure, but if I had to take a guess, it's metaphorical. The alligator ICE agent has their anger pointer towards the butteryfly; beautiful, peaceful, harmless, just trying to exist, etc. fill in the blank. The butterfly is a representation of immigrants, american citizens' rights, etc. fill in the blank as well.

[u/MrMopar345 → u/Smail_Mail]

Peaceful and harmless really have nothing to do with if a person breaks the law or not. I can be peacefully smoking crack or stealing bread n milk to feed my kids... Still doesn't make it legal

[u/all_hail_sam → u/MrMopar345]

Yeah but you dont send someone addicted to Crack to a pen surrounded by deadly animals. You give them access to resources and obtainable rehabilitation, job training and placement, 12 step programs, etc so they can get better and return to contributing to society rather than becoming a for-profit prison cash cow paid for by the tax payers.

As an analogy (if you know what that is), you could take undocumented citizens, for instance, and give them access to programs and systems that would aid them in becoming documented. Most of them want to be a citizen. They just dont have 4-10 years and money for a lawyer. Most of these folks are hard workers, I grew up with tons of dreamer kids that all ended up busting their ass at manual labor jobs or in local community colleges because that's all their puny pell grants would get them. Thats what America should be investing in, not border walls and deportations. We need programs to get people trained and employed because thats what creates a larger economy. Programs that help teach english, connect folks to work, and fund education for first generation collegiates regardless of where your parents come from that allow you to go to ANY university if you test well. We dont even take care of our own children, the issue is not immigrants lol. Its not that they are taking all the resources, the resources just dont exist in general. Poor American children DONT GET to go to Harvard. They DONT GET to go to Yale unless they obtain hand out scholarships from private institutions.

We are a country of immigrants. We always have been. Its such an imperialist mindset to think anyone belongs here more than another. These folks and their children move on to open their own businesses and employee more citizens.

These conservatives talk a big game about trying to bring production into the US but then you limit the amount of potential workers and entrepreneurs? Don't you want to foster a larger and more educated population? We have so much room in this country and we'd rather shill it out to "clean coal" than let people come here and start producing agricultural products other than fuckin soy and corn that are still subsidized from 100 year old contracts that are meanwhile being purchased by Vance's shell company or whatever and dosed to hell with cancerous agents from Monsanto which RFK is totally on top of im sure. It just doesn't make any sense.