Back of the napkin math in my comment:
shalafi
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You can get a fair picture here:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
Nothing you can part a hard number on, obviously. But you can derive trends easily enough.
For example, check 2024, a year that's trended down. Let's pretend that number was 100,000 immigrants/month for all of that year, and we're being ridiculously conservative here. That's 1.2 million souls. These are real people, that require food, water, shelter, medicine, all that. It's a bit staggering just imagining the infrastructure needed, let alone humanitarian needs.
So, using stupid low numbers, that adds to 4.8m people in 4-years. We could drill down forever, but that count is not going to get lower. 7.2m strikes me as a reasonable figure. Especially if we're including immigrants from sources other than the Southern border.
I got some blue ones off Etsy in my vivarium! Super cool little dudes. Along with the millipedes, springtails and snails I find, they eat all the plant detrius. Being, ya know, detritivores and all.
Sounds like hell on Earth to me.
Nice, isn't it? When I was a big drinker, I'd hit my hole-in-the-wall and get a double whiskey and a coke back, no questions asked.
Best part? On on busy Friday or Saturday when there was a monster line at the bar, I could grab a spot, STFU, get my drink.
"HEY! How come that guy got served?!"
"Because he's not being an ass."
And, back to the back of the line for the questioner.
Two old ladies running the place. Never knew their names. But god help you if there was a fight starting. Flirting with a girl one night and some guys got to pushing around...
"ALL RIGHT! GET THE FUCK OUT! BAR'S CLOSED!"
She looked at me kinda nervous:
"Really?"
"Yeah, really. They mean it. We gotta go."
(We didn't go anywhere, but we split in any case.)
This is not that discussion, even remotely. Try to stay on topic.
This post gave me an epiphany! No wonder so many wild movies were made in the 70s! LOL, and the ridiculously sexy shit that came out. Now I get it.
Oh! That's who he is and why he was chosen. Say no more fam.
Exactly where the notion came from.
Fuck am I supposed to do? Go shoot up every house with a Trump flag?
And yes, I'm prepared to shoot them when they come door-to-door looking for "illegals", like my legal, brown wife. Steve Bannon already talking about needing "local" troops for the project. Red shirts, if you will.
You do you OP. It's your right. Or, have the maid do it.
Anecdotally, I've only heard women use that sort of argument IRL. Kinda falls in the, "This widget is 80% so I'm saving money!"
Well, no, not if you didn't have to purchase the widget in the first place.
Men are hardly immune, but in my experience it's more so women.