Firstly, we must acknowledge the importance of non-interference in the political affairs of Latin American countries. By refraining from past interventionist practices, we can create a conducive environment for these countries to govern themselves and focus on their own development. This would significantly reduce illegal immigration from these countries into the US.
Additionally, it is crucial to foster collaboration between the United States and the Mexican government to tackle the menace of cartels. Highly targeted US military operations against cartels within Mexico may be necessary. Special forces, drone strikes, and the involvement of our armed forces can be deployed strategically to eliminate the cartels.
Simultaneously, we must address the underlying issues that drive illegal migration into the US from Latin America, particularly Central America, which is where most illegals come from. By investing in aid and resources, we can support the development of infrastructure and economic opportunities in Central American and Mexican communities. This approach would encourage illegal immigrants to leave the US and return to their respective countries.
We should support Central American countries like El Salvador in their effort to purge their homeland of homicidal gangs/street terrorists and make their countries safer. Bukele currently has a 94% approval rating by his people. Some American politicians and NGOs are threatening Bukele, to stop him from "violating" the "human rights" of homicidal street terrorists, that held El Salvador, hostage, for decades.
In the spirit of finding humane solutions, we could explore the possibility of voluntary repatriation programs that provide incentives for individuals to return to their home countries. By offering financial support, resources, and assistance in resettlement, we can facilitate a smooth transition for those who wish to go back and rebuild their lives in their own countries.
And yes, we can also do the strong-arm deportations that you yearn for, along with all of the above. We can essentially tell these illegal immigrants, that if they get caught and detained by our immigration enforcement they will be deported without the resettlement assistance. There will be no repatriation/re-location help, they will just get deported.
They need to turn themselves in and go through the process of resettling in their countries within the repatriation program. If they don't turn themselves in and are caught by law enforcement, they just get deported. That's the smart way to deport 30 MILLION PEOPLE.
The above has nothing to do with Walmart being stingy with their full-time employees and essentially having their labor force subsidized by the US government. Right-wingers need to get out of the way and allow the US government to not just give you rich folks your monthly "employee food stamps and cash assistance bailout", but to ensure all Americans are housed with at least basic housing, and have access to an education, e.g. college or vocational job training.
If you believe you have the right to pay employees whatever you want, despite not being enough for these people to live, then due to the market's failure to provide them with a living wage, the government has to get involved, not just with food stamps and cash assistance. Capitalism doesn't work without at least a little bit of socialism.
Illegals aren't being hired in Walmart, they work the jobs most Americans, especially our new generation with their manicured nails and silky baby smooth hands, don't want to work. It's the labor-intensive, "ugly jobs" that these Latin American illegals are working, not cashier and retail inventory jobs in major retail brand stores.
You shout "Soviet Union!", "Stalin!", when I suggest the US government should have a full-employment policy for all Americans, providing people with a job in the public sector, when they can't find one in the private sector. You don't shout that when Uncle Sam is subsidizing your full-time workforce, because you refuse to pay them enough to live. In order to attract people to work for you as cashiers for ten hours daily, you're going to have to pay them enough to live, if the government has a national full-employment policy. That's why you hate it so much. You love having people desperate for work, due to scarcity of jobs, accepting whatever peanuts you throw at them:
I'm more than willing to pay a few cents more for that box of macaroni as shown in the above video, to make sure the cashier can get paid a living wage. I would even pay an extra buck or two for some items, to make sure Walmart employees are earning a living wage
(earning enough to live on without government welfare). Hell, I'm even willing to give Walmart some tax incentives, to cut their taxes.
You need her full-time, so pay her enough to live on and not need Uncle Sam to feed and house her. You're making billions of dollars a year, hence pay her an extra 3 or 4 bucks an hour. That's an extra $700, $1000 monthly. That's her rent, utilities, and food. When pearl-clutching rich folks like you flippantly dismiss the needs of their employees, Uncle Sam must get involved. The US government keeps this from happening to you stingy ass capitalists:
They make sure the working class
(94% of the population), doesn't eat the rich
(6% of the population). If Todd's way of doing capitalism leads to social unrest and a perpetual series of economic collapses
(boom and bust cycles), requiring socialism to save the day
(US government, tax payer funded bailouts), then your form of capitalism is dysfunctional. It doesn't work:
The purpose of the state is primarily to protect the haves from the have-nots, the owners, and masters from the majority who are owned and have a master over them (if you're an employeeeeeee/exploiteeeee, you're owned).
The state is always a dictatorship dictating for either the wealthy elites or for the working class. When the state is in the hands of the rich, it's called a plutocracy, an oligarchy, and when it's actually in the hands of the vast majority of people, it's a democracy. It's the rule of the people. There will never be a perfect society and government, so at least we can mitigate the chaps or entropy, with a little bit of socialism. Without it capitalism collapses, because of the unsustainable level of inequality, poverty, homelessness, crime..etc. You end up with nothing. We need to strike a workable balance, between Ayn Rand (laissez-faire) and Stalin (USSR). Not one or the other.
