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Admittedly, my brain is a little scrambled at the moment, so hopefully someone here can help me follow along.
They've deported millions of workers out of the job market. Then why are so many places having massive layoffs, threats of layoffs, and hiring freezes? Should there be a massive abundance of job openings now?
Then again, if they're implying that most of those immigrants didn't work, then where did the whole immigrants took my job rhetoric go? And why would non-working immigrants require us to adjust our expectations down in the job market so much?
Are these double-reverse-plus-infinity immigrants, simultaneously not working and living off government benefits while also taking jobs from people, jobs which mysteriously vaporize the moment the immigrants are deported?
That aside: Less than 2 years ago, my small team at work was looking to hire more developers, a qa person, an assistant designer, and a project manager. Trump took office, and within months, the team I worked in was halved in size via layoffs, a hiring freeze was put in place, and several of the remaining folks were demoted (in exchange for otherwise staying employed). These days, nearly everybody I have talked to in various "office jobs" professional services fields mentioned that they are facing another round of layoffs and that there's a hiring freeze in place.
They didn't deport millions. They have brutalized people enough where seasonal workers don't come to the U.S. or the ones here don't show up to work
and all the goods and services those people would be consuming have disappeared in a puff of logic
No way their labor created more value than they extracted from the system. But that would be a like a free boost to GDP and prop up a larger job market benefiting citizens. No, the white man must be the victim here, i just need to figure out how...