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Could you please explain why that's relevant?

Not the original poster, but I imagine one of the things that undocumented people have more trouble doing is getting a mortgage or signing a lease so having a landlord who will take cash definite benefit for that group of people.

There are also citizens who are undocumented because they are incapable of the legal work to reacquire valid ID for various reasons.

That line of logic you have to ask why California has such a low rate though!

How many generations does it take before someone counts as a "real american"? Or is your "foreign-born" designation hiding that it was always about skin color all along?

I think once they’re citizens, and id say generally foreign born retain the $origin-american but their kids don’t always. I don’t think you typing in “purely a matter of skin color” is writing angry posts into the void that have nothing to do with the OP.

My reference to number of generations centers around recent guidance from USCIS to de-naturalize citizens based on broadly defined criteria.

The current discourse in this country centers around suspending habeas corpus to mass-deport millions of people. How do you know who's "illegal" without going through judicial process? You look at their race. And in the end, that's always what it's been about.

I don’t agree in general that’s how the system works or how most Americans think. But again that has nothing to do with the OP. I thought you were asking about American culture and I wanted to clarify.

No, a majority of Americans don't think that way. But unfortunately mass deportation was the central platform of the Trump 2024 campaign, and race is now the defacto targeting criteria for ICE.

Bigot alert!

How is that statistic relevant to anything?

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