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    Ask people if they care - bodegas were there before the first Yemeni arrived (“bodega” is actually a Latino term, y’know), and will be there even if every one of them disappears from the entire U.S. tomorrow. It’s their own economic throat-cutting, not anyone else’s.

    These people are being - I suppose - “responsible” in their mostly-pointless an utterly-futile “protests/strikes/prayers/dancing in circles”, etc. - but how do they imagine that their jumping-around is going to a) have any useful influence, whatsoever, on lawful Executive Order-produced actions by government officials