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BumRushDaShow

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6. "Are US citizens clamoring to fill the jobs becoming available with deportations of undocumented immigrants?"
Tue May 20, 2025, 10:07 AM
May 2025

They will soon find out but I expect someone is going to use a loophole in the Constitution to take care of that -

Amendment XIII

Section 1.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii


Over the decades, many a Congress have debated a "fix" for that but haven't been able to and figured that no one would broach this anyway. However we now have an administration who could easily "empty the prisons and put them into the fields", without hesitation AND with legal authority to do so.

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