
This is cute, and true, as far as it goes, but when you think that undocumented workers (and most brown and black skinned people in this country are documented), though a lot of non whyte folks also work in low paying essential jobs, but the Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. If undocumented immigrants acquired legal status today and citizenship in five years, the economy would add an average of 159,000 new jobs per year, and formerly unauthorized workers would pay an additional $144 billion in federal, state, and local taxes over a 10-year period.”
Undocumented workers make up about 20% of all hard physical jobs in America, they create more wealth and actually create more jobs than they cost in services, by a long shot. The only people who benefit from getting rid of undocumented workers are politicians who fear monger certain racist voters by lying about undocumented immigrants.
in direct labor, undocumented workers contribute between $400-$500 billion each year. They spend about $300 billion in the local economy, creating another 10,000,000 jobs for native born Americans.
So yes, no one will be there to wipe your butt, to fix your food, to help you up when you fall. but even if you dont need any help with this, you might not appreciate the shortages in staffing at all manner of service, construction, and agriculture, you might miss the $100 billion in taxes, you might hate the 15%-20% increase in the cost of almost everything, even if you dont appreciate the cultural and creativity in art and food and music. you are gonna miss the 15 million folks certain racist politicians are willing to kick out of our country.

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