If there are unproductive high school dropouts, sure, but one can be a drop out and still have meaningful employment and be accretive to society. |
I'm a democrat, voted for Hilary and despise Trump but I am fed up with illegal immigration from our southern borders. Here is why - folks who live in countries to our South right now seem to believe they have an absolute right to immigrate to this country which is why they come in illegally. They seem to believe they are entitled to be here over anyone else. They are jumping over the millions of people who want to immigrate here legally from countries in other parts of the world. Its flat out not fair to the rest of the world.
We need to send them home and, as another poster stated, get BETTER at defending our southern border. The wall is just plain stupid. A kindergartner's idea of how to keep people out. We need better solutions to keep our southern borders secure. And then we need to re-vamp our entire immigration system. Immigration should be based on either merit or asylum, period. Not quotas. Not lottery. If you offer something we need, or you desperately need us, and you can prove you are not a terrorist or an extremist of any kind, you can immigrate. |
Why? Do you think the U.S. needs more immigrants? Explain. |
Unfortunately, liberals are no where to be found on doing what's best for US citizens - they are of the everyone who can get in is entitled to citizenship. ![]() |
fixed it for you |
A few questions. --who determines using what criteria that there is an "association" with MS-13? --on what basis do you conclude that not having completed high school is a drain on society? |
Report them all. You liberals are already letting them vote in droves. You deserve nothing, no compromise, NADA |
What? Completing high school puts you in the rank of the educated elite? |
1) Nativists like to claim they're fine with legal immigration. OK then, if the problem is simply about people sneaking in, then one solution is to make it easier to immigrate legally. 2) Until and unless you can find a source of labor for all the jobs that U.S. citizens refuse to do (a firmly established pattern, BTW), then it would appear we need to keep allowing people in. 3) We are a country of immigrants - that is our history, that is our culture, that is our way of life. I would advise extreme caution before moving our society away from that cornerstone ethos. |
That's like saying, we have a problem with theft, so let's just put the stuff people steal on the town square. We'll still be out of something, but at least it won't be stealing. There ARE other solutions - like stronger locks. Or stricter punishments for stealing. Just because someone is fine with legal immigration doesn't mean they will be fine with unlimited numbers of legal immigrants. Countries have the right to decide who they do and do not let in, and how many. You can solve the jobs issue with automation or increased wages. Otherwise it sounds like you're saying dirty and cheap jobs are ok for immigrants but not for Americans. On the country of immigrants fairy tale, every time I hear it, I can't stop laughing. This is like a Cinderella legend that wouldn't die. This "ethos" of yours has zero reflection in your laws. Zero. America may have been a country of immigrants once but it is no longer that, and repeating it ad nauseam does not make it true. Your laws do not welcome "the poor and the downtrodden" at all. I challenge you to point me to a section of the Immigration Act that makes someone eligible for immigration just by virtue of them being poor. You have limited admission for asylees and refugees, and these require that your life - not your livelihood - must be in danger. Economic hardship is NOT considered sufficient grounds for immigration. You have very limited merit-based immigration, defined narrowly as an employer willing to sponsor someone, or someone with "extraordinary ability', which, by definition, is not common. The fact of the matter is that outside of family connection, there are very few legal grounds for immigrating. Please understand that I don't say this by way of criticism, I say this by way of accurately describing facts and laws. What grounds are there for saying "America is a country of immigrants?" It hasn't been for quite some time, and its laws reflect this. Only in movies and stories. Your culture may not have moved from that "cornerstone ethos" but your laws have left it in the dust a long time ago. |
Answers: - Congress can create a law defining MS-13 gang association. And let's err on the side of caution - even MS-13 tattoos should be enlighten of kick them out. - High school dropouts are more likely to commit crime, be impoverished, and collect welfare benefits. |
Enlighten of s/b enough to. (Weird autocorrect.) |
NP. What about former gang members who are tattooed but have left the gang? HS dropouts may also be more likely to fill "safety-net"-type jobs that American citizens don't seem to want: low-wage, seasonal, hourly. If they are working in a job and contributing, does their HS resume matter? |
Unfortunately, some "good" illegal aliens* may be caught up in this, but remember - they shouldn't have been here in the first place - and it's more important to Americans' interests that we err on the more aggressive side and get the "loser" types out. What's happening is that liberals are more concerned about the interests' of illegal aliens than the good of American society, and we see that in their efforts to "protect" the illegals. Enough is enough. *I've gone back to using the term illegal alien, which is technically correct, because liberals are conflating illegal with legal immigrants and failing to distinguish between the two in discussions. We solve this by getting the technically erroneous word "immigrant" out of discussion involving people who crossed the border illegally. |
You are a frightening and hideous human being! They’re people...with families who are desperately looking for a better life. America’s drug appetite has destroyed their country. |