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by diogocp 215 days ago
Or deport them.

> Unauthorized immigrants live in 6.3 million households

> Almost 70% of these households are considered “mixed status,” meaning that they also contain lawful immigrants or U.S.-born residents.

That works out to 1.9 million households with only illegal immigrants.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-k...
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myrmidon 215 days ago
If those are below average in CO2 emissions you would make the numbers worse though, and that seems pretty likely to me. Need to deport only rich immigrants owning more than one car.
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jansper39 215 days ago
How many Elon Musk's would we have to deport?
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myrmidon 215 days ago
Counting just private jet flight about 200 Elons (5kt CO2/y). Some people are even higher, and large yachts are worse than business jets I'd assume.

But I'd say that people tend to actually overestimate the share of super-rich; ten thousand normal US citizens emit more than a single billionaire, and there's not that many billionaires.

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louthy 215 days ago
> Or deport them.

Deported people stop producing CO₂? Never heard that before. How does it work? Do they lose the ability to light a fire or drive a car once not in the US? And, presumably, they'd have to stop eating and breathing too?

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