That’s a fair critique, I made it sound more like US citizens are snobby for rejecting underpaid, dangerous jobs when in reality the US’s base infrastructure still entirely relies on a form of slave labor to persist. I should’ve been more nuanced with my description.

Yes, if we remove our migrant population then we literally lose the majority of our food production workers. I think it’ll also impact our construction work force, much of our factory workforce, our waitstaff, and various other jobs US citizens turn their noses up at - because those jobs literally would not sustain them and would destroy their bodies over time. Most of these jobs are sustained entirely by the desperation of immigrants trying to escape their prior circumstances.

Edit- added more detail in bold to make it clearer the the issue lies in how these jobs are conducted rather than being with US citizens.

This could likely lead to a period of no planes flying over these states, since airlines wouldn’t want to face whatever fines are stated in these bills, yeah? If any of these pass, it’s inevitable that they’ll either be ignored or backpedalled on in the future. I imagine they’re mostly just virtue signalling and have no intention of actually passing these laws.

Are you under the impression that the US is the only country with meth? Literally every country mentioned has to deal with meth heads, I assure you. None of them gun those people down. It’s a person having a medical emergency, not a rabid animal on the loose.