Trump's Beautiful Wall

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I know I, as a tax payer, would feel better leaning into tech over a physical barrier for a host of reasons. Hopefully the Democrats can convince the Shitbird in Chief to do the same.

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Kelly is also recently quoted as saying that the concept of a concrete wall was discarded early on. Meanwhile Trump is still calling it a wall.

I'd be okay with tech solutions as well, though I'm not sure what those would entail.
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Jersey Girl wrote:Kelly is also recently quoted as saying that the concept of a concrete wall was discarded early on. Meanwhile Trump is still calling it a wall.

I'd be okay with tech solutions as well, though I'm not sure what those would entail.


Neither do I, but there are a TON of really cool solutions to surveille the border from a satellite to drones to cameras to ground sensors to people. I'm also a fan of a pathway to citizenship which includes ID'ing immigrants, giving them tax numbers, and then after around five years offering them citizenship if they're gainfully employed, net contributors to the system, staying out of trouble, and willing to take the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance. Why not?

Where I'm a bit fascist is if they're welfare bums or criminals they gotta go.

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The only thing I could think of was drones. I wonder if ground sensors could be disabled?

Anyway, good ideas.
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Where I'm a bit fascist is if they're welfare bums or criminals they gotta go.

- Doc


How can you deport anyone when you can't stop them from entering the country illegally in the first place? All you're doing is providing a free vacation home for a few weeks. It actually kind of scares me that we deport dangerous criminals in lieu of incarceration given the border has been purposely left porous.
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ajax18 wrote:
Where I'm a bit fascist is if they're welfare bums or criminals they gotta go.

- Doc


How can you deport anyone when you can't stop them from entering the country illegally in the first place?


So ... despite the best efforts of ICE, is it your position that no illegal immigrants are currently being deported?
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ajax18 wrote:
Where I'm a bit fascist is if they're welfare bums or criminals they gotta go.

- Doc


How can you deport anyone when you can't stop them from entering the country illegally in the first place? All you're doing is providing a free vacation home for a few weeks. It actually kind of scares me that we deport dangerous criminals in lieu of incarceration given the border has been purposely left porous.


How damned retarded are you?

From the 1980s to the mid-2000s, apprehensions at the border — the most common measure of illegal immigration — routinely reached more than 1 million migrants a year.

Today, they are near historical lows. In the fiscal year that ended in September, border authorities apprehended 521,090 people.


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ajax18 wrote:
Where I'm a bit fascist is if they're welfare bums or criminals they gotta go.

- Doc

How can you deport anyone when you can't stop them from entering the country illegally in the first place? All you're doing is providing a free vacation home for a few weeks. It actually kind of scares me that we deport dangerous criminals in lieu of incarceration given the border has been purposely left porous.


Ajax...the 50-60K you mentioned previously were apprehensions.

The charts are on the CBP website.
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So ... despite the best efforts of ICE, is it your position that no illegal immigrants are currently being deported?

My point is what is stopping someone being deported from just coming back. Perhaps you should ask Kate Steinle, but unfortunately nobody in this world can anymore.

Most welfare recipients amongst illegals are the children of unwed mother illegal immingrants not working age men. I seriously doubt Doc wants to limit the number of unwed mothers entering the country illegally to live off the tax dollars of working American men and women.
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Ajax...the 50-60K you mentioned previously were apprehensions.

The charts are on the CBP website.

You're point is noted. But how many enter illegally who are not appreheded? The illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle was deported multiple times.
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One of the weird things about the “open borders” rhetoric Ajax is imbibing in is literally no other area of law do you see people pointing to the existence of lawbreakers as proof no law exists at all. Like, people aren’t saying we live in a speed limit free society. And the Venn diagram between people who do that and argue that gun laws are a bad idea because criminals won’t listen to them is pretty tight.
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