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Invest in Immigrants, Don’t Deport Them

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08.01.2025

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Immigrants across America are quaking in their boots as they fear being arrested by federal agents and deported from the country – all because they sought refuge from a bad life in search of a better future. Donald Trump blames President Biden for encouraging mass migration, and he is pledging to close the border and deploy U.S. troops to carry out deportations when he enters office.

But there is a better solution to dealing with the millions of immigrants in America. How about we invest in them instead? What if we help pay for their education and turn them into law-abiding citizens who contribute to the future of our country by filling the millions of jobs that are vacant?

How about we take wasted taxpayer dollars and instead build massive communities to house the immigrants as well as our homeless? America wastes so much money and governments can do far better things with taxpayer dollars.

A decade ago, researchers at San Diego State University and the University of California, Davis spent part of a $325,000........

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