100%. Spot-on. In this country today, the working poor are de facto second- or third-class citizens. Increasingly de jure, too. In practical real-world terms, just being VLI almost unavoidably implicates a person in some kind of crime. Someone recently expressed it this way: when checking out a certain gated community as a possible future home, they asked a resident of that very well-off enclave if they had any problem with crime. The reply, given with a sly wink, was: “No problem at all! We have no unorganized crime here.” That’s the present-day USA in a nutshell. If you’re wealthy and part of the club, you have no worries. You enjoy automatic immunity. If you’re working-poor, you can be fired or evicted or hauled off to jail for anything. Or even for nothing at all. Of the very few rich people behind bars today, most are there because they neglected to bribe the right official. Or the bribe was perceived as too stingy. It’s a national scandal and needs to be addressed.

Dee’s comments should get an award for uncreative fiction.

Sorry about the unintended duplication of my reply. I was undecided about how, exactly, to phrase it. Inadvertently added a second version while erroneously thinking that I had failed to send the first one. The world of digital communications is still a bit new to me.

Hello Fred. Good to hear from you again. Whenever I want to understand the pro-Trump mindset in its pure undiluted form, I read through some of your comments. No one else expresses it so directly and forcefully. I’m sure Trump himself would be favorably impressed.

Hi Fred. Good to hear from you again. Have you ever considered going into politics? You have a definite flair for articulating what the good-ol’-boys want to hear, in certain parts of the country. Mr. Trump would certainly give you his stamp of approval.

My forbearers were German farmer stock.

For all of our history, immigrants came to America for opportunity and to be “an American,” that is, up until the DNC rebranded itself effectively as the “Sedition Party, the “Anatcho-Socialism Party,” and are fighting to turn off the flame on our melting pot making it cool so those peaky truths we hold to be self-evident and endowed by our Creator may instead become the patronage of the Democratic Party, or any Party that lives off of the dependency of the People, their Subjects.

The Socialism and sedition hiding behind the inane term of “tossed salad” (non) assimilation deprives immigrants of the quintessential blessing of being an American.

Kenneth,

Wittingly, or unwittingly, you’re playing the DNCNN’s game of conflate categories. I mentioned this previously.

The previous cabal administering our Executive Branch incentivized, aided and abetted a mass migration of illegals, a flesh army if you will, aimed at the heart of our Republic: the census, and one man, one vote. Should the Electoral College fall, so shall the Republic and the Constitution will be a dead letter to be cut and pasted by whomever holds the biggest megaphone.

I’d been a Democrat for thirty years with a raging case of TDS. I will set-aside my feelings about the return of the “spoils system” as it energizes and revitalizes the “Decider Branch,” the “Make it So Branch.”

President Trump is not god, but he is doing god’s work. We won the Cold War and the flowers of our victory are in bloom and the fruits are ripe.
And if the term “god’s work” turns you off, then PresidentTrump is doing the work of history and paying the debt of all the blood of our men and women spilt for our nation, not to pass to the other side of one war, or another, but to endure into the next millennia and beyond.

Thank you for putting the report together. Years ago, I left the for-profit sector for the nonprofit world and worked in housing for about 7 years for both The Pine Street Inn out of Boston and Caritas Communities based in Braintree. Ultimately, because of my frustration with what I felt was overregulation, I went back to for-profit work and currently give as much of my extra time and money as possible to a couple of nonprofits. I’m happy to share my experience with you next time I visit your office. Eric Helmuth has been kind enough to be helping me with one of those nonprofits, so I’ll probably be there soon. Just let me know.

Sincerely,
Sean Flinn

The Biden/Harris team stopped more than 3.3 million illegal entries at the border and sent them back to Mexico. The Trump/Pence team stopped and returned only about 400,000. Draw your own conclusions as to who allowed “open borders.” Btw: there were never more than 14 million undocumented immigrants in the entire country at any given time. The sheer logistical impossibility of bringing that many –plus an extra million to make up your imaginary “15 million” total– into the country during Biden’s 4-year term, should tell you how ridiculous the idea is. Every bus, train, airplane, taxi, car, scooter and donkey in the entire nation would have had to be carrying “illegals” up into the various states, and then would have had to turn around and immediately gone back for more. And so forth, 24/7. Of course that never happened.

The Democrats have found profit in the destruction of our Republic.

Agreed

No, Janet, none of them would. Ask any farmer: how many blonde-haired, blue-eyed, working-age anglophones with a valid US birth certificate have ever applied for stoop-labor jobs in the fields. Or…if any of them actually submitted an application and got hired…how many have stayed on that job for the entire growing, harvesting, or processing season. The farmer will burst out laughing. In several of the big agricultural states, studies have found that 50% or more –sometimes considerably more– of the seasonal agricultural workforce is both migrant and undocumented. If all those folks get deported, America will go hungry in a big way. I’ll be happy to cite some reliable statistics here, if anyone cares to see them. And if it wouln’t be improper to take up space that might better be left open for other people’s thoughts.

Check your facts:
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/role-recent-immigrant-surge-housing-costs

Great research..well done. great points.

Greater Boston is an historic area and ill-suited for sedentary growth. It is not healthy in any way, shape, or form.

Republicans can do unions. Republicans can do consumer protection. What do we need Democrats for anymore if all they do is traffic in sedition and agitprop? “Tossed salad” non-assimilation that deprives immigrants of the quintessence of being an American?