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thesquanderer

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21. re: "Kicking them out wont lower the unemployment rate"

Reply to Tommy_Carcetti (Original post)

Wed Sep 6, 2017, 11:35 PM

Sep 2017

Okay, that's the one I could see the other side picking on. If hundreds of thousands of employed people are deported, don't those jobs open up for other people, and the rate goes down? When the "kid's science teacher" is gone, isn't another hired?

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re: "Kicking them out wont lower the unemployment rate" thesquanderer Sep 2017 #21