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1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

As long as the US provides better economic conditions and a better quality of life, the immigrants are going to keep coming. Trump is doing his best to make sure that isn't happening. With America's aging population and slowed birth rates, giving people paths to citizenship isn't a bad thing. 

Nobody said it was but that doesn't mean you just ignore the rules and let people come across the border illegally and then stay even after being caught and identified as being here illegally.  Maybe Democrats should have actually worked on immigration reform when they had the chance. 

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17 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Nobody said it was but that doesn't mean you just ignore the rules and let people come across the border illegally and then stay even after being caught and identified as being here illegally.  Maybe Democrats should have actually worked on immigration reform when they had the chance. 

They did and had a bipartisan agreement with one of the most conservative senators and Trump told Republicans to kill it. 

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37 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

They did and had a bipartisan agreement with one of the most conservative senators and Trump told Republicans to kill it. 

And this is why he wanted it killed. So uninformed people (ie Fox News watchers) would say the Democrats are weak on immigration and border enforcement.

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50 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

They did and had a bipartisan agreement with one of the most conservative senators and Trump told Republicans to kill it. 

Im referring to when they controlled everything under Obama and had 60 votes in the Senate as well.  

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10 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

They only had 60 votes for about two months and passed major health care reform. 

Is there a rule in Congress that you can only have one ball in the air at a time?  They could have done so much more in that time had they actually wanted to. 

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1 minute ago, GalagaGuy said:

Is there a rule in Congress that you can only have one ball in the air at a time?  They could have done so much more in that time had they actually wanted to. 

Well in 2013 68 senators passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. John Boehner refused to bring it up for vote. Obama did work on immigration and once again republicans blocked it.

Yes, 60 days is not enough time to pass two pieces of major legislation. 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Well in 2013 68 senators passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. John Boehner refused to bring it up for vote. Obama did work on immigration and once again republicans blocked it.

Yes, 60 days is not enough time to pass two pieces of major legislation. 

 

 

 

Not with that attitude.  

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39 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Not with that attitude.  

Are there illegal immigrants on your front lawn or something? Maybe they are not the threat you think they are. Maybe it's a fabricated threat to further Trump's agenda. Such as, fentanyl from Canada. If your family was threatened, you wouldn't do something illegal to save them? Narcissistic, power-hungry men seem like a much bigger threat to me.

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4 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't see a benefit either.  One obvious negative is that it's a waste of resources.  

"Waste of resources" is relative, since there are people getting good and paid for participating in this operation, including local governments that detain immigrants in exchange for large sums of money from the Trump government; private prison corporations that run the facilities to detain them; and the various companies that provide services to facilitate the apprehension and detention, all of which creates a clear incentive to detain as many people as possible.

But even setting this aside, red hats don't want due process for immigrants because they can't enjoy witnessing any cruelty during court proceedings the way they can watching video of raids.

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4 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Well, maybe not a bunch of **** from the White House and her government. But there would definitely have been a bunch of **** happening every goddamn day courtesy of Trump and his acolytes. The difference is she would not have strangled democracy in full view of the country while the Supreme Court handed her the piano wire for the job and Congress stood by applauding.

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11 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Are there illegal immigrants on your front lawn or something? Maybe they are not the threat you think they are. Maybe it's a fabricated threat to further Trump's agenda. Such as, fentanyl from Canada. If your family was threatened, you wouldn't do something illegal to save them? Narcissistic, power-hungry men seem like a much bigger threat to me.

You're right, nobody is allowed to care about illegal immigration unless they are literally on your front lawn camping out and stealing your electricity.  Absolutely ridiculous take, bro. 

The bottom line is that there isn't a country on the planet that doesn't have immigration laws.  Stop defending each and every person in the country illegally and maybe another convicted felon won't be elected in 2028.  

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3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Again gets to why this problem never gets solved: because we can't agree on what the problem is.

The process for legally immigrating to this country has been badly broken for years, and it is part of the reason that we find ourselves where we are currently. Somehow this gets lost in all the punitive focus on "they did it the right way" or whatever.

Of course, none of what is happening is about illegal immigration really, because as far as the guy running Trump's immigration policy is concerned (ie. Stephen Miller), pretty much all immigration is bad. Particularly for those immigrating who don't share his same level of melanin.

Those jackwagons want us to believe that paying ladies five hundred bucks for birthing white babies is going to solve the problem of Social Security old age pension shortfalls. Maybe even they themselves believe it. They haven't explained what's going to happen during the next thirty years while we are waiting for those zygotes to mature enough to start paying into the system.

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