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I mean who thought that this would happen?!

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It is the one big "secret" (because everybody knows it) about the US economy. A lot, and it is indeed a LOT, of it runs on migrants that are willing to do all the "dirty" jobs.
During the pandemic, when I was stuck in Colorado, a house was being built across from our place. I was surprised, one Saturday afternoon, to see three guys working. Then, they turned on some music.
Of course they were Mexican. Because it took them a while to build the place, and I would walk by them to go to the market, I one day bumped into them. We started talking, I switched to Spanish and it became the usual: where was I from, what was I doing there, etc.
I did not ask if they were there legally; what would be the point? The thing was: they were working, on Saturday afternoons.
And then you tell me immigrants are all criminals. Sure.
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The citrus crop was already in trouble and now there's no one to harvest what's left. Higher prices are coming to a supermarket near you.
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ti-amie wrote: Mon Jul 03, 2023 9:09 pm The citrus crop was already in trouble and now there's no one to harvest what's left. Higher prices are coming to a supermarket near you.
Unfortunately, you are correct. That same person is going to get rid of immigrant children born here whose parents immigrated here
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This satisfies a little bit of schadenfreude. I wish all service folks bailed on their jobs for a week to show who's making things hum here.
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Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed during an altercation with another incarcerated person at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida.

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https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/i ... ral-prison
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Owendonovan wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 11:04 pm Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed during an altercation with another incarcerated person at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida.

:bananas:

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/i ... ral-prison
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Owendonovan wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 11:04 pm Disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, who was convicted of sexually abusing female gymnasts, was stabbed during an altercation with another incarcerated person at the United States Penitentiary Coleman in Florida.

:bananas:

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/i ... ral-prison
I read that he was attacked because he made “lewd comments” about the women playing at Wimbledon
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In unrelated news, I’m seeing this morning that they may have caught the Gilgo Beach killer
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JTContinental wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 6:59 pm In unrelated news, I’m seeing this morning that they may have caught the Gilgo Beach killer
This is big news in the NYC area. They went to where he worked too.





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