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by drzaiusapelord 3997 days ago
I hate that you're being downvoted. There's a real gamification of immigration and welfare benefits in the US by shady lawyers that serve the corrupt and steal resources from those who actually need them. These stories are endless.

The big problem with building a pro-immigration welfare state is that there's often no check on fraud. Bureaucrats like bigger budgets, expanding, etc and would rather just rubber stamp everything 'yes' than tackle things like fraud. Judges don't want to be labeled racist or anti-immigration, especially if they are voted in like they are in my state.

Now we're in this ugly position where we've imported all this unskilled labor and are simultaneously building automated solutions that'll make them redundant. Where will the taxi drivers and janitors go when robots replace them? Why are we importing in so much labor when U6 unemployment rates are still above 10%? What evidence do we have that this man is actually a torture risk? In Russia's sphere of influence pretty much everyone is a torture risk. That's what? 150m people?

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I'm pretty sure 150m of Russian people are not hackers investigated by the KGB.