# Immigration restrictions and enforcement, what you support **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147 "2018-08-24T00:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/1 "2018-08-24T00:07:20Z")
In [a GD thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=860873) about immigration, **HeweyLogan** claimed that the liberal consensus on this board is against any restrictions on immigration and against enforcement of existing immigration law. This thread is an attempt to establish what the actual consensus might be through polling, insofar as that is possible. This is a multiple-choice, public poll; the poll answers are not, of course, comprehensive but they are the best I could do. Due to character limits in the answers, some of them may not be perfectly clear (although this is less so now that TubaDiva has increased the limit from 100 to 200 characters). If you have questions, you can refer to my post (#177) in the other thread. Those who support none of these positions or support something not mentioned or something completely different have poll answers as well. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/2 "2018-08-24T01:13:14Z")
I’d like to see some sort of seasonal worker program. I know industries like farming have been impacted by not being able to get their migrant workers. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/3 "2018-08-24T02:13:27Z")
I think people coming into the country should show id and have their hands stamped. No other restrictions. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/4 "2018-08-24T02:22:24Z")
I’d like to see ICE, USCIS, and CBP follow their own damn rules much more of the time than they do. And for the people charged with interpreting and enforcing the law to be much more familiar with it than many of them are. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/5 "2018-08-24T02:49:34Z")
> [@Tatterdemalion](#): > > I think people coming into the country should show id and have their hands stamped. > > No other restrictions. Hand stamps? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/6 "2018-08-24T04:53:56Z")
I voted I have no opinion. I think American immigration issues should be decided by Americans. As for Canada, I support more immigration, with reasonable safeguards to keep out criminals. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/7 "2018-08-24T05:07:24Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Hand stamps? Say, tattoos maybe? On their wrists? ---
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/8 "2018-08-24T05:38:23Z")
I selected all from\* Government should follow the law for immigrants seeking asylum\* to _Stop intentional brutality in immigration arrests_. I’m not from the US, but these are what I support for my own country and by extension the US. I wouldn’t say I don’t suppport any restrictions. Generally, my view is that immigration should be much easier and only a severe criminal history should stop someone from having the oppurtunity to move to another country. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/immigration-restrictions-and-enforcement-what-you-support/820147/9 "2018-08-24T05:49:25Z")
Basically let in anyone who isn’t a known serious criminal (terrorists, murderers, etc). I believe people should have the right to go where they please unless there’s a good reason to stop them; and “America hates brown people” isn’t even close to a good reason.