Sure I would, why wouldn’t I?
Do you understand what a refugee is?
So basically, its all or nothing. I got it.
We (the collective US of A citizens ) would be making whatever rules are best for US.
I don’t know if you’re trying to make a joke or just sincerely confused. Those posts are by three separate people.
Do you understand that it doesn’t much matter if we are making an economical decision?
“A reasonable measure of the worth of a foreigner’s life is how much he may contribute to the wealth of the United States.”
Do you agree or disagree?
No room or consideration for humanitarian decisions? Or is it all about the economics of day trading with people’s lives?
Because you avoided answering a yes or no question.
Your position is no refugees, correct?
No, just pointing out how silly of a proposition that is.
People will go to where the jobs are, where the economic opportunities are. Putting quotas on that will interfere in that natural form of the free market.
If there are areas that we wish to encourage immigration, then making incentives to move there can make sense. Forbidding people to move to places will only create authoritarian policies that will not benefit anyone other than xenophobes.
Well, sure, that’s what we should do. But it seems that our immigration policies are being based on what is best for white people.
That opens up all cans of worms. It’s rather easy to make a rational decision in regards to immigration when you can be emotionless.
Those other emotional based immigration cases would just need to be looked at separately.
Yikes. Human life doesn’t matter? We’re just counting beans?
It’s not about emotion. It’s about who we want to be as a country. Are we what we claim to be based on the ideals we were founded on, or are we … something else now?
I was thinking about this last night and I will encourage you to try this:
Please, stop in a few of those towns of around 2-3,000 people and find the town mayor or other leader. Inform him or her you represent the federal government and that they will in around 2 months, be the delivery point of about 100 refugees. All non english speaking and from a vastly different culture. Inform him/her that town will be REQUIRED to not only take them in but provide housing, food, sanitation, medical care, jobs, plus schooling for any children.
Also inform him/her that in another year, or maybe less, there will be another busload of another 100. Then another. Then another.
Just how will they take this news?
Thing is we DO have immigration. LEGAL immigration where we bring in I dont know like a million people a year. My next door neighbors from the Phillipines are immigrants like that.
We dont need to take in everyone. We can have borders and decide who gets let in or not.
Why would you encourage him to go to a town full of strangers and lie to them?
I dont live there but from what I’ve seen I can agree. I see pictures and stories of many empty neighborhoods.
Let us set up a ridiculous scenario designed to antagonize the target as much as possible, that has no basis in reality, then pretend to know what will happen next.
You sure showed us!
See the post directly above yours …
If you would have driven out to the suburbs you would have seen how full we are getting. In my hometown of Overland Park houses for single family home have skyrocketed and almost all the new construction are apartments or condominiums. They tore down one golf course and built a massive apartment complex plus multi family homes. On Metcalf they tore down old buildings and are building apartments. Heck everywhere I look is apartments, apartments, apartments.
So while we dont currently have the homeless problem of other cities I can see we are barely keeping up.
Traffic is really getting bad and our mass transit options are limited.
Now could we keep expanding and keep slapping more apartments on farmland? I suppose. But thats getting to be more and more expensive plus you must also then expand services like water and sewers plus the new places are further from job centers.
Yes, it is very much about emotion. And every bit of the current divisiveness that is our political parties, is ALL about emotion driven paranoia. Look “open borders!” Look , dying children!
We as a country know we want better, most can even see how to go about making it better. But all the rest would rather play the “not us”, or “but they do it worse” or hyperbole wins the thread games.
No one, not a single one of you, are willing to put aside the political differences to come together. Now the politicians, they make back room deals all the time because its all just smoke and mirrors to their constituents. But oh no, not us, we have all swallowed their divide and conquer (or really not conquer but just keep us in power) pill.
ICE didn’t exist until 2003.
Did you think that before 2003 we had entirely open borders?