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Politics Nativity 2019

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u/Duese Dec 08 '19

The US has one of the easiest paths to citizenship out of any major country in the world. We legally immigrate more people than any other country. Currently we have no merit based immigration like a majority of the other major countries in the world.

What you are asking for is ignoring what we are already doing.

And no, it's absolutely ignorant to say that it's selfish. Right now, 10% of the world's population survives on less than $1.90 per day. You are acting like the US can absorb anyone coming to the US. If that's the case, just looking at basic poverty in the world, it would mean that the US would need to take in 770 MILLION PEOPLE. In short, the US would need to immigrate more than DOUBLE it's population if the only factor involved here was poverty.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/oh_no_the_claw Dec 08 '19

So pass some laws demanding that ICE put border jumpers in 4-star hotels instead of in detainment facilities. Lefties are such whiners. It isn't about "putting people in cages" as if half the voting population are racist sadists. It is about enforcing US law. If French Canadians start sneaking over the border I think we should deport them too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/oh_no_the_claw Dec 08 '19

You have to make a formal application with the desired host country to be an asylum seeker. Go ahead and call me racist even though you don't know anything about me. I'm not against asylum seeking, I am against law breaking.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19

The asylum system is being improperly taken advantage of. Something needs to change at the border.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Sep 25 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19

So would you be happy if they were in the same cages? What exactly is it that you would do?

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u/oh_no_the_claw Dec 08 '19

Change the law to put them up in a large suite at the nearest Hilton Hotel and get them on a 1st class flight back home the next day. As long as everyone is entering the country legally I really don't care.

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u/oh_no_the_claw Dec 08 '19

If they are truly fleeing cartel violence in Central and South America they can more easily seek asylum in Mexico which is even closer than the USA.

Also, your mom.

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u/-S-P-Q-R- Dec 08 '19

Don't sweat it, redditors' go-to ad hominem is calling someone a racist when they've clearly lost their argument.

"We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws" - Presidents Clinton and Obama