Give me numbers, and THEN we’ll talk. Right now, it’s not even close to reasonable for the citizens of some nations to get here legally. Again, 131 fucking years, and that is for someone with a sister who is a citizen.
A few billion unhappy people aren’t going to come here and we can certainly handle the millions of happy people that would. If we opened it up all at once it would be dicey for a bit, but I’m willing to live with it, or to phase it in if it is demonstrated to make the transition smoother.
What share is that, and how did you come up with it? Also, refuge?
As noted, I would be fine with those of any country coming here, but yes, being a border country and fellow members of NAFTA does make me want to give them a bit more preference, IF preference has to be applied at all.
I won’t hijack the thread in that direction. The point is anyone from America is an American as anyone from Asia is an Asian. They can all be broken down to subcategories and I imagine most prefer it that way. Lynn claimed there were no Mexicans of Asian descent. The fact remains there are plenty.
Thanks. I just wanted to see how well you’ve thought this through. Which is not at all. We have 300 million, and you’re willing to let 400,000 and more in. :rolleyes:
Do try to be something other than the jackass you are, even if just for fun. You’re the one who wrote: (bolding mine)
I find it interesting. Most villages, towns, cities, counties, parishes, states, and commonwealths in the United States strive for growth. They tend to find that gaining residents is a good thing for their economy. Why is growth not good for the country?
Los Angeles County is full. Orange County is full. San Diego County is full. We have built out most of the land for housing, and are short on open space. Water supplies could become an issue, the highways are packed, and the pollution from the additional power plants is an issue as well. My community does not measure itself based on population growth, but rather on economic stability.
So we encourage immigrants to go elsewhere, if in fact that’s so. Your community offers no benefits to new or relocating businesses that draw new population?
Housing issues, water supplies, traffic jams, and pollution are hardly problems that are unique to Southwestern California, and in fact, if we judge only by them, that part of the country has been full since the 1950s or thereabouts.
When the amnesty program gave legal status to 3 million illegal aliens in the 1980’s it also gave most of the 175,000 Mexican immigrants since then a method of immigrating legally.
And that is why I say that a significant percentage of today’s Mexican immigrants are coming here because of the amnesty in 1980’s. It would be very hypocritical if 99.9% of the Mexican community here were against illegal immigrants because illegal immigration is part of their history.
We can’t make it easy. Conservative estimates are that there are a BILLION people that want to and are capable of showing up on our shores tomorrow, there are untold many more than want to come here but can’t get the resources to pay for a plane flight. We simply cannot absorb them.
I think they probably do. They are a good neighbor and our second largest trading partner after Canada.
Is there a United States of Asia somewhere that I don’t know about?
I think we are talking about the notion of trying to deny citizenship to a kid that is born in the USA. We let in about 175000 Mexican immigrants every year, almost all of them are coming here on family reunification. If your brother doesn’t already live here, you got no shot.
A neither do a few billion other people on planet earth, many of which probably live in shitholes that make mexico look like paradise. Though that may suck, I still don’t see the point, unless its that Mexicans are somehow magically America’s immigration “chosen people”.
How many refugee’s from true shitholes is MEXICO letting immigate out of the goodness of their heart?
Does Mexico have a “if you can get here you can stay” immigration policy?