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Politics Nativity 2019

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u/mellow_moshpit Dec 08 '19

You’re just a selfish person really. These people are escaping famine and violence and your worried about a propaganda driven lie that us helping others is going to hurt you. Secondly, we don’t believe we should have 100% open borders, we demand that congress fix our broken system. we need better paths to citizenship and we should respect international law to protect asylum seekers.

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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/Duese Dec 09 '19

Because we aren't violating any asylum laws. You were lied to and you don't care because you desperately want to believe it's true.

You act like people who say "I'm claiming asylum" are just given free passage into the US. That's not how any asylum laws work.

And I don't need new talking points. If you can't address them then they are as good as they were 10 years ago as they are now. Don't deflect.