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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 18, 2022

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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If you took 50 white American citizens from a trailer park and sent them to Martha’s Vineyard, the same thing would happen. It has nothing to do with immigrants and everything to do with poverty.

You mean, they'd be rounded up and taken to a military base? On what grounds? Wouldn't that be, like, illegal, unless they committed some crime? Poverty, as far as I know, is not a crime currently.

I don’t know if the same thing would happen if one of them had a MAGA hat on.

Migrants require more services than an English-speaker in a trailer park

Maybe, maybe not. The migrants are young, healthy enough to make a multi-thousand mile trek, and motivated to work. The trailer park denizens may well be older, obese, diabetic, and addicted to meth or opioids.