Mass deportation not just cruel; it would be costly

[BamaRefugee]

1. I'm no expert but looking at it from a Los Angeles/California perspective, it would depress the economy???

First off, thousands of apartments would suddenly be empty. I would think landlords would have to lower rents drastically to get income flowing again. And to get new tenants, they will have to improve slum like buildings, (part of my work), but there won't be any workers to do the job.

Thousands of merchants will lose thousands of customers. Sales tax, gas tax, and others will plummet. Payments into Social Security, etc will plummet. Among other things this would hugely impact fire and police budgets, wouldn't it? Rendering the comfy supreme elites way more vulnerable???

Thousands of merchants will also lose thousands of employees. And the *supreme elite* folks who are left are NOT gonna take those jobs. I don't see how things like fast food joints, auto repair, garbage collection, construction, landscaping, hundreds of types of businesses will not be able to keep their doors open. The ones that can stay in business will be charging megabucks for things that were formerly routine, semi-affordable expenses for the general population.

If they target Pacific Islanders, forget about getting decent care in hospitals or nursing homes.

There's too many other possibilities to list.

None of this is racist, please, just my observations on the place where I live, and my work in the legal field takes me every day to the homes and businesses of folks vulnerable to this.