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> The US just lets foreign countries use it for its resources now.

The US is dead last in net exports in the entire world[1], so you literally couldn't be more wrong about this.

> India just hit a record for remittances from the US

Those workers pay their taxes. It's up to them what they do with the rest of their salary. Or do you just want to raise taxes on all US immigrants?

> much of the country is struggling for jobs

This is among the best job markets for workers in US history. Companies are struggling to fill jobs. We need more immigrants to fill those jobs.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_expor...

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Silver lining to all those remittances: if the whole world is using our currency to buy goods and services (and also holding dollars as a reserve currency) we can print a lot more money before we’re affected by inflation, or at least that’s how I understood it.

That's got nothing to do with remittances. That's got to do with central governments... And many central governments are moving away from using the US as central currency recently because we're being destabilized. Partly by massive amounts of immigration on the order of 2 million per year, as much as the population of some entire states!

>This is among the best job markets for workers in US history.

And yet most companies are either laying people off or have hiring freezes, and I've personally been unemployed for three months now. Your post has no basis in reality, and it sounds like you're trying to come up with post hoc justifications for your political orthodoxy.

The economy has been rapidly adding jobs lately, so how can most companies be laying people off?

I'm sorry you're unable to find work, but an anecdote isn't data.

You need to o differentiate between middle class jobs and poverty jobs like Uber driver and burger flipper.

"Adding jobs" is a poor and lazy indicator of a healthy middle class and healthy economy.

>This is among the best job markets for workers in US history.

Jobs that don't pay the bills are abundant!

There's never been more subway sandwich and Uber driver jobs in history!

Middle class jobs? Flooded with immigrants and hyper competitive.

Much like the housing market which is skyrocket expensive partly because of the 2 million immigrants (the size of some states!) we let in per year who increase demand for housing.

> Those workers pay their taxes. It's up to them what they do with the rest of their salary

Yeah spend it in other countries vs an American who calls this place home who will spend it here to better communities in the USA? They're literally here to exploit the economy of the USA.

Also, what does exports have to do with anything? Does that include siphoning money from the taxpayers to Ukraine? Or siphoning money from the economy in general by immigrants?

Do you feel that Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Rupert Murdoch are immigrants who exploit our economy? They have enormous wealth outside the country and pay very little in taxes (much less than Indian immigrants do).

They treat the United States as their home.

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