• havokdj@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Kinda doxxing myself a bit but we actually don’t have that many migrants in MS. Most of the ones I have seen as well tend to work family businesses and they migrated way before the new wave of immigration.

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      1 year ago

      2% of MS population is people in first generation in the US, mostly people from Central America

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        1 year ago

        First generation doesn’t mean migrant. Migrants cross the border to work but live in their home nation.

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            1 year ago

            “Migrant worker” has a specific meaning.

            This is not a hot take by me. This is just you not knowing what words mean

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              You didn’t say “migrant worker,” you said “migrant.” All words have specific meaning, that’s not a hot take either.

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                  The chain starts off talking about children. A lot of children commuting internationally to MS these days? Are we granting work visas to children all of a sudden? Clearly no one in this thread is working from the same definitions, but that’s actually how language works. Specificity is key if you don’t want to be misunderstood.