diogocp 3 hours ago

Or deport them.

> Unauthorized immigrants live in 6.3 million households

> Almost 70% of these households are considered “mixed status,” meaning that they also contain lawful immigrants or U.S.-born residents.

That works out to 1.9 million households with only illegal immigrants.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/07/22/what-we-k...

  • myrmidon 2 hours ago

    If those are below average in CO2 emissions you would make the numbers worse though, and that seems pretty likely to me. Need to deport only rich immigrants owning more than one car.

    • jansper39 2 hours ago

      How many Elon Musk's would we have to deport?

      • myrmidon 2 hours ago

        Counting just private jet flight about 200 Elons (5kt CO2/y). Some people are even higher, and large yachts are worse than business jets I'd assume.

        But I'd say that people tend to actually overestimate the share of super-rich; ten thousand normal US citizens emit more than a single billionaire, and there's not that many billionaires.

tencentshill 3 hours ago

COVID did far more than that. The upcoming healthcare cuts for the most vulnerable should take care of at least that many.

myrmidon 3 hours ago

It might be a tiny bit more feasible to convince 200000 households that they don't need a second car (or switch to electric ones), but mass murder would have a comparable effect on CO2 emissions, yes.

bayarearefugee 3 hours ago

Or we could have done something really wild like not insist on RTO just to appease the ego of middle managers across the US.

micromacrofoot 3 hours ago

well if we take the covid losses as a "close enough" timeline we've still got a lot of room to grow

Traubenfuchs 3 hours ago

I am sure there are more than 18.000 households the majority of US Americans would democratically decide on to cull.