Texas will require proof of legal immigration status to get professional licenses

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Somebody I work with is a middle aged maga wife. She's almost completely disconnected from actual political news so it's entirely ignorance and vibes, not malice, and I do give her credit for the difference. Her husband is a cop. Our workplace issued a Know Your Rights statement. We've talked just a little about politics so she asked me about it. Why are they telling us the difference between a judicial and administrative warrant. Why are they giving employees the option to have a separate emergency contact for if they are detained than for if they are injured or sick? Is it because of the ICE stuff. I explained to her that I have a lot of respect for most cops, but that since Trump was elected ICE has hired tens of thousands of new agents. I told her that they get 47 days of training to enforce specialized and complicated immigration law. She was shocked, her eyes immediately popped. She knows how hard her husband worked to get his badge, 47 days. They have the power to detain anybody in America for the color of their skin, or their accent, or their work, if those features mean they might be an immigrant. They have the ability to deport people they detain without ever presenting them to a judge. They have invented those administrative warrants to try to confuse people into thinking they are as legally binding as a judicial warrant but they are not. When your husband gets a warrant he has to get it signed by a judge these guys just slap the word warrant on a piece of paper and waive it around and try to intimidate people into doing what they want. Another co-worker was a homie and asked a question, "So if they aren't real cops can we like, fight back if they try to grab somebody." I earned credibility with her on this. Oh no dude don't do that they are federal agents. They may not be trained. They may not follow the law. They may be thugs. But their badge carries legal protections with it, and their bullets hurt just as bad as any others. That information is really important to drill down on law & order types of people. A lot of people have family who have been in law enforcement. They find this shocking and offensive. It is breaking through, and I encourage everybody to make this one of their regular talking points with "normie" disengaged folks.

It's going to hit everyone dude. Its already destroying the rideshare market and food delivery. It's going to start hitting everything.

Those people are still allowed to work. This does not change that.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/20/new-york-noncitizen-voting-blocked-00240007 New York was considering this but was blocked by the courts, my guess is Texas tried to stop that.

I believe in some areas like California it's allowed for non citizens to vote in local elections like school board etc since they are legal residents in that area.

So do something about it

They vote for Republicans who are out to make life difficult for the undocumented, which means employers can use the threat of reporting them to ICE to ensure they can work undocumented immigrants to the bone, steal their wages, etc. 

>And they also vote for republicans who are out to get rid of their c**** labor. They vote for someone "promising to get rid of the criminals" and then act surprised when the government they voted for does much much more than that. Although big labor (aka agriculture) was even able to get away. ICE started roughing up farms because they knew there were a lot of easy hits to make - and that ended *fast* after farmers started to protest. That's when ICE moved to Minneapolis.

Because Democrats will give those laborers a better shot at some kind of legal status, removing the employer's ability to use deportation as a threat.

They're not getting rid of the old paperwork just because there's new paperwork.

Ask John Cornyn. When he was AG back in 01, he made the decision.

So Texas is a former Mexican territory. Americans moved in, illegally imported slaves, were able to outcompete their lawful free ranching neighbors and when Mexico decided to try to enforce the law they threw and insurrection, murdered the soldiers who were sent to put them down and declared independence. They decided to join America, which allowed them to bring in some Yankee boys to help them settle a territorial dispute over a little sliver of the land that they violently conquered a few years earlier, because they didn't get enough from their slaving and their murdering. The Mexican Army took a few potshots at those guys, so the Americans went a slaughtering and took the entire Southwest. The border is f****** stupid. Communities there go back way before the war. The economies are intertwined. In some places the border literally cuts through buildings, streets, and infrastructure. These are not places that geography wants divided they belong together. And America has always taken our freedoms seriously. We believe in inalienable HUMAN rights, not citizen rights. These HUMAN rights are enshrined in our constitution. We don't hassle people without cause. Of course we've always had our nativists. They panicked that Mexicans were causing wage loss during the 1930s. Border Security was increased. At some point in the 20th century the United States made the first people illegal for the crime of living how they always did - we made it a misdemeanor to cross the border without authorization - and we opened a single Border Patrol station in El Paso where you can apply for a Visa. Overnight tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people along a 3000 mile border became criminals because of a law they had no vote in, had no awareness of, for which they did not change their behavior in the slightest, and which many of them were never, ever made aware of. They accidentally made their children criminals too by crossing this invisible line in the sand drawn up by some assholes in Washington on whim. With all due respect for law and order the Southwest did nothing wrong by ignoring what those dumbass Congressman had done and continue living life as though nothing had changed. We got our first round of deportations going during the Eisenhower Presidency. It lasted about two years and was quietly shut down. Bussing minorities to large camps was a little to similar to a lot of the shit people hated about the 1940s. Ethnic Cleansing came back in the 70s. The Vietnam War caused stagflation to plague the American Economy, and in classic fashion the warmongers took zero responsibility and blamed immigrants. The nativists were ascendant, and going into the 1980 election they were licking their lips to get a bite of the apple when the most unfortunate thing happened to their cause. Ronald Reagan, a Californian, and George Bush, a Texan, were atop the Republican Party. Back then, neither state had a strong nativist wing. We're the southwestern states... real natives of the southwest love our Mexican neighbors. Neither Reagan nor Bush had the stomach for ethnic cleansing, and they both spoke up forcefully in defense of the rights of human beings. Reagan was a truly wonderful communicator. He said that Americans are born every day and some of them are even born in America. He said that in the history of every American family is somebody who became an American by choice, not by birth. He said that if we ever close the door on new Americans, our leadership in the world will be lost. He said that immigrants keep America forever young. He said that anyone from any corner of the earth can come live in America and be an American. He compared us to a City on the Hill, and said that if we must have walls, we must always have open doors. We got a comprehensive immigration reform, the last and most recent one, during the Reagan years. Unfortunately, as great of a communicator as he was I think he passed a bad law. He tried to please everybody and bridge the gap between the nativists in his party and his values. The deal was pitched as amnesty for security - on it's face not a bad concept! But they were never serious about security. For all the bluster of the nativists, the adults in the Republican Party knew there was no way to secure that 3,000 mile long border, and they knew that the way of life in these communities would be seriously harmed by an extreme security state. The cost to the government would be enormous it would be one of the federal government's biggest annual expenses and to solve what problem exactly? Communities living normal American lives on either side of the Mexican and United States borders? It wasn't pragmatic, it wasn't worth it. It was well known then that no wall or fence or security force could do the job. The only way to secure the border was to go for the jobs. The nativists wanted every employer to be required to verify people's immigration status with the federal government. The adults in the Republican Party refused. We got a bill that promised a "secure" border, but made no serious attempt to actually achieve it. We got amnesty, but reduced reliable paths to residency and citizenship for all future immigrants. Enter: Fox News. Enter: The Internet. The nativists were mad and they fought back in the press. They were promised security after all, and they knew they were robbed. They told the American people horror stories. A murder by an illegal! Cover that thing 24/7 for a week. DRUGS! They're coming in through the border! As if any society in human history has ever been able to eradicate drug use. Fox News spread fear of immigrants bringing disease, and guns, and crime and drugs and all manner of ill will and they cherry picked any story they could find and blasted it for all the country bumpkin to see from Montana to Iowa to Boston. California and Texas went different ways during this time, I don't know why to be honest. I'm happy and proud to be in California where we stand ten toes down for our neighbors. I don't know what went wrong in Texas - perhaps the oil baron/FBI Director was more popular across the country than he was in Texas and they were always like this. In California we had a governor try to pass a law that would have gone a long ways towards ethnically cleansing California. The Republican Party has won 2 statewide races in the 30+ years since that dumbfuck decision. Texas has obviously taken a more hardline stance, as this So that's the situation as Trump enters the scene. A perfectly fine border. Nativists bitching and moaning for their Congress to do something to fix it. A Congress passing feckless law after feckless law that they say will fix it but never changes anything, because anybody who studies the issue closely realizes nothing needs to be changed. The media landscape - transformed by cable news and the internet, pushing more extreme content, conspiracy theories and hate than the country had seen since the rise of the telegraph. Every president in my lifetime has tried to pass a new comprehensive immigration law to modernize the piece of c*** Republicans passed in the 80s. Every single one has earned broad bipartisan support, but has inevitably been tanked by Republicans. The Democrats have entirely and completely caved FYI, The Democrats aren't the party of the Southwest and they don't defend my neighbors at all. They are more than willing to make that invisible line in the sand as inconvenient as possible for people to cross, to monitor and to track everybody who does. They support immigration quotas which are way too low, pathways to residency and citizenship that are too expensive and take way too long. They used to ask for guaranteed pathways to citizenship for non-criminals, but in the Biden Compromise they literally only asked for a pathway to citizenship for a very small group of immigrants known as "Dreamers," and to increase the number of judges and lawyers who worked these court cases so that wait times wouldn't take literal decades, plural. Trump told Republicans he wanted to campaign on the issue. He told them that he didn't care that they got everything they wanted because winning in 2024 was more important to him. And Republicans, loyal to an audience of one did what he said. Because here's the thing about nativists that's true in the United States and is true of nativists all over the world. They desire most of all to do violence. There is no compromise to sate their bloodlust. Every few generations they must go nuts and unleash themselves upon others. That's why Texas hasn't had this law before. Because it isn't necessary. It's a violation of human rights and dignity. Because the Texas community, like the entire southwest, is a community bonded together, a community which cannot be - well it should not be - divided by some dumbass line drawn by warmongers in Washington.

True, but that’s for the sake of accounting, not necessarily the full legal backing and protections of the government. It’s why visas exist to begin with. It’s a government sponsorship to the certifying organization so that everyone involved can be comfortable that standards and regulations are being met. It’s really hard for a government to justify giving someone the thumbs up that they are performing their job correctly if they can’t say that they are here with permission.

This isn’t rocket science. I’m pretty sure you know exactly the point and choose not to care about the validity of the argument and just want to advocate the sentiment. The point is that it’s an insignificant amount of error/misuse/fraud/insert boogeyman here to make a significant change. Kind of like the election fraud horseshit going around the conservative circles. Have fun posting the same comment as a reply to three separate people though.

You attempted to add context to the numbers and so did they. Your response came off as defensive though, probly why negative?

IDK how they think inflation happens, maybe they think it's magic?

Inflation is the relative value of money decreasing, not prices rising. Labor becoming valuable due to a scarcity is the value of labor increasing and not the value of money decreasing. Things that increase the amount of money in circulation like over printing of currency relative to GDP and increased loans over the amount of real money are inflationary.