r/news • u/PlayaSlayaX • 1d ago

Mexico tests cellphone app allowing migrants to send alert if they are about to be detained in US

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-app-migrants-deportations-consulates-09655e742f2918803881a32620e384ef
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u/Few_Satisfaction2601 1d ago edited 1d ago

I guess they want to be ready after they get deported back to Mexico. Deport all illegal immigrants, support the actual lawful immigrants is the way. There's a huge difference.

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u/bassoonshine 1d ago

The system currently encourages illegal immigration and makes legal immigration much more difficult. This is a feature, not a bug

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u/eldenpotato 1d ago

How is that encouragement? If you cbf dealing with the system in place then don’t sneak in. Immigration into any country isn’t a right

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u/how_2_reddit 21h ago

Mind boggling how people can't grasp this concept. It's as if coming into another country is a God given right that is unjustly denied by that country having strict immigration policies or procedures.

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u/UrbanDryad 13h ago

The US could have functionally ended illegal immigration years ago by harshly holding people who employ them responsible. But we don't because the US economy depends on cheap labor that had no legal rights.

Immigrants pay taxes that they never see benefits on, and that's propping up some of our systems like Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare.

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u/Vulpix-Rawr 13h ago

Yes, but if they make it easy to sneak in and hard to stay, they get to keep their migrant workers for cheap. Then if they overstay their welcome, they just kick them back out.

If they really gave a shit about curbing illegal immigrants, they'd make it easier to get temporary work visas so these people could pay taxes and get fair wages. Give tax breaks to places for hiring a certain percentage legal citizens. Then corporations wouldn't have incentive to hire them over legal citizens because they'd have to pay all their workers fair wages.

They don't, because the system is working as designed.

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u/eldenpotato 7h ago

You make an excellent point

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u/SpectrewithaSchecter 1d ago

Yeah, the US has a hard on for slavery in any form it can get it, be it prison labor or illegal immigrants earning a couple bucks a week, gotta keep agriculture and construction labor costs cheap for those in power