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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-04-20/trump-says-hell-suspend-immigration-offers-no-details

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What a truly evil, shitty, nasty thing it is for the President to tweet out a threat against the rights of millions of people in the middle of the night, all the while providing no details at all. 

Spending literally weeks denying the danger of COVID-19 and then refusing to implement actual measures to save lives before abruptly deciding to use the crisis to harm vulnerable people is pretty much the rancid shit we should expect from Trump and his supporters.

Only yesterday, they said the contagion was a lie, and that we should re-open businesses. Now, it's severe enough to suspend immigration despite immigrants having nothing to do with the disease that's been here for coming up to six months. 

Let me be very clear. **Immigrants are good for the economy!**

They are extremely hard workers, for one, typically willing to work jobs most Americans aren't (with a very low reserve wage.) In Addition, they come here and pay taxes, to say nothing of how they spend their money each time they go out to eat, go shopping etc.

Don't think of the "economy" as an apple pie, where we all have a small slice, and the more people there are, the smaller the slices get. It's far, far more dynamic than that, and the free movement of labor through immigration is super important to any kind of free market.

Banning immigration hurts the economy. The same way that banning me from working in city A just because I'm from city B would hurt the economy. 

Trump and his supporters can't just lose in November. They must be crushed. We must bury them, and star the long, sad path to repudiation of everything they stand for. 

Fuck Donald Trump, and fuck everyone who supports him.