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SamuelAdams

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1. The median age of people born in this country is 58.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Jun 9, 2026, 07:15 PM

17 hrs ago

People that age are looking forward to retirement. Our birth rate is low. The retirement of the Baby Boomers is putting stress on Social Security and Medicare. Businesses have been struggling to find workers. Americans tend to not want to do the low wage jobs immigrants do and not have the education to fill all the high skilled jobs. If we deported all foreign-born STEM workers like doctors and engineers, we would have a major shortage of those workers. The only option we have is immigration to fill available jobs.

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Trump team wants to make it harder for immigrants to legally work [View all] BumRushDaShow 18 hrs ago OP

The median age of people born in this country is 58. SamuelAdams 17 hrs ago #1

They'll be easier to exploit that way. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 16 hrs ago #2