Oh gee, attack me to avoid the thread topic. So unexpected.
It’s a humanitarian and financial crisis. But please, run on open borders and get Trump elected again.
Mathematics are disagreeing with you. There were over a million arrests at the border 20 years ago (or so). During that 20 years, the GDP doubled, stock markets doubled, and family income rose.
The manufactured crisis you guys keep propagating is fine for the base. Getting anyone else to believe your bullshit will be difficult.
As for the “humanitarian crisis”; perhaps you should stop kidnapping children and holding them for 2+ years away from their parents (our official policy now). Now…quickly cue, “well under Obama….”. Old play book.
Being against the worthless wall doesn’t mean you’re for “open borders”. The wall will do very little to stop illegal immigration.
Obama’s Homeland Security man says it’s a crisis. Take it up with him.
Yes…one that Trump created.
Obama, by the way, deported so many people that some Hispanic activists called him the “Deporter in Chief”.
What are you arguing? That there are not thousands of people trying to illegally cross the southern border?
No.
I’m pointing out that in 2000 or so, we had a greater number of persons arrested at the border than we have now…by leaps and bounds. If you believe the conventional wisdom that for every one we catch, we miss one or two more…that would mean that 2 million came across in circa 2000. During that time, we haven’t had some sort of economic calamity. In fact just the opposite.
These are facts. Try using them sometimes.
Specifically, what point are you attempting to make? Just lay it out.
We’ve had the same situation on the border for about 60 years more or less.
During that time, the US has become the one indispensable nation on the planet;
- Militarily the strongest
- Economically the strongest
- Culturally the most significant
- Intellectually the most rewarded
The influx of illegal immigrants has not hindered the evolution and expansion of our civilization by any measurable metric. It is, in fact, arguable that it has assisted the expansion by providing cheap labor in areas where most Americans do not want to ply their trades.
On the flip side, I do think that illegal immigration is a net loss for the nation but it is far from the onerous crisis (much less national emergency) that is regularly cited here by losers like yourself.
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My turn:
Isn’t it true that you could give two shits about illegal immigrants from Canada, Europe, Germany etc….?
Isn’t it true that the reason you could give two shits is because they look like you?
Isn’t it true that all of this nonsense about the “crisis on the border” is about one thing; you guys don’t like brown people and you think this wall will solve your personal issue?