Since you've been in the US for a relatively short time, you might not remember that most of these items, in one form or another, are perennial staples of previous presidential campaigns.
First of all, you do not know me, so don't assume stuff about me. I might not be an american, but I have been living in the US for the past 7 years and I am a journalist. The area that I cover is american politics. So, I could say I am more informed than the average american when it comes to politics. People who know american history in depth or who have been living in the country longer than I could teach me a few things, but I have seen so many campaigns since Bush vs Gore that I am confident I know very well which themes are staples and which themes are taboo in american politics. I am not speaking out of my ass.
That's what Trump says he will do; what he would actually do once in office and he realizes that he's not a dictator and that things aren't black and white, is another matter. It's not as if these proposals haven't been proposed already (except maybe the wall, and banning Muslims--he can take credit for those as far as I'm concerned).
Good job, Captain Obvious. But since nobody on these forums believes in crystal balls, tarot cards, or reading the intestines of sheep, we are not going to be able to see the future before voting. We need to stick to what these people are saying in their campaign to judge who to vote for. If they don't follow through once they are in office we can judge them for it. This is democracy 101.
Still, if you insist on doing an exercise in skepticism perhaps it would be best to check Hillary's track record first since she is the only one who has held office. And I don't think anyone can claim that she is honest. So if we are concerned about liars, Hillary would be the first one whose campaign we should discredit consider
she has lied to the american people in very significant ways and then she brushes it off with phrases like: "what does it matter now?". But then, Hillary's campaign would have to have actual substance other than "Trump is racist and his voters are racist".
Seriously, honesty is a word you shouldn't even mention when shilling for hill.
The reason those people are here in the first place is that Americans simply won't do those jobs. Are Americans going to do the seasonal, migratory work of harvesting produce, for any price? Are Americans going to do the backbreaking work of roofers in the hot sun, for any price? I don't think so. So, all that a wall would do is put companies that use cheap immigrant labor out of business, and make the goods and services they provide much more expensive. Also, those workers that would have entered the US illegally will now be stuck in poverty in their home countries. I'm not saying that the US has a moral obligation to take them in for humanitarian reasons, but it is something to keep in mind, because large populations of unemployed, hopeless people can destabilize their countries, which can affect the US.
I don't think you have a firm grasp of how the economy works. Americans would do those jobs if they could do them.
Americans did these jobs before 1965 when the open immigration law was enacted and unskilled labor immigrantes flooded the country.
Any american that is currently unemployed and cannot provide for his family would gladly do many of the jobs that illegals are currently doing in construction, service, manufacturing, and even agricultural jobs.
The reason americans cannot do these jobs is because they don't get hired. Not because they are too posh to build affordable housing, too snotty to pick up phones in call centers, or too spoiled to work for a low wage.
And the reason they don't get hired is not because companies actually prefer illegal labor. It is because american citizens have to comply with US law. And according to US law there is a minimum wage any american employee must receive per hour. Even if I, as an american citizen, wanted to clean toilets for 5 cents per hour, I couldn't do it because american minimum wage law applies to me. It doesn't apply to the illegal mexican who crossed the border yesterday, though. And
no company who breaks the law hiring illegal labor is going to risk hiring an american for less than minimum wage because they could sue them unlike illegals because their hands are tied
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Illegals get hired because they are already forced to hide in order to remain in the US. Therefore, any company knows they will not be sued for paying them lower than minimum wage simply because the illegal worker would be risking a deportation.
Breaking the law is only profitable business when both parties are guilty of the crime. Otherwise you have no insurance.
As for the novelty of Trump's proposals, they
are novel. Especially on immigration which was a taboo subject before 2015. Nobody before him even dare address it unless it was to push for amnesty. Speaking about fixing trade deals with China is also novel, and we both know it, I don't know where you are trying to get saying that his policies have been proposed a thousand times, no matter how much you dislike Trump, facts are facts.
