# The Biden Administration - the first 1,500 days \[NOT an Afghanistan discussion\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 8, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057 "2020-11-08T15:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 540
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057/540 "2021-03-28T18:56:17Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Yes, the options are that we either deal with them humanely, or we don’t deal with them humanely. Do you have something else in mind? Well, you’d originally written _“deal with them humanely, or to simply prevent them from crossing by any means, up to and including lethal?”_ And I figured _that_ framing left more possibilities open than, well, This-Or-Not-This. > [@](#): > > What is your proposal for how we should “deal with folks who show up to illegally cross the border”? The 13th Amendment says that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. I propose that we make _that_ a punishment for illegally crossing the border; we don’t _have_ to go straight to it, we‘d still have the option of letting them off with a warning as we kick them out of the country — but once we’ve made clear that they can be sentenced to hard labor, we can amiably shrug if they mull it over and decide, _oh, yes, that’s what I’d like, please and thank you; here I go walking right up to the border and, upon being given fair warning, accepting the offer._ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-biden-administration-the-first-1-500-days-not-an-afghanistan-discussion/925057)._