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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look at the size of Texas.

Look at the size of the district.

Of course Texas has the room. If they need the money, they should absolutely receive federal help. Money for every immigrant taken in.

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Or we could just enforce our borders.  I don’t see why Texas is expected to take in migrants but not DC. [/quote]

PP you replied to. We ALL agree on that, but the border is one of the longest in the world and just impossible to secure. High walls were possibly a good idea, but you've seen how easily people can still get across, and how much of it we'd need to build and maintain. Plus, there are conservation areas there, and bodies of water.

We need to act on ALL the options we have: border enforcement is only one of our tools. Being nasty to the illegal immigrants that have been in the country for years and paid taxes is unnecessarily punitive, when we've all benefited from their labor. So the answer has to depend on which illegal immigrant we're talking about, how long they've been there and how they've comported themselves.

Illegal immigrants in good standing should be encouraged to settle in all states that have the room, with subsidies for those states.

- legal immigrant.[/quote]

Or we could just not let these people enter our country to begin with.  [/quote]

What part of long border/impossible to secure do you not understand?

Do you want to talk to Border Patrol in Texas? They'll tell you about it.

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This is a total cop-out.  Of course, we will never stop 100% of the illegal immigrants, but did you see the road blocks put up by big business and their Congressional BFFs when Trump tried to enforce border laws?  And even with all of the pushback, he lowered crossings substantially.  We currently have 200,000 crossers each MONTH (the size of a moderate city).

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Yeah, remain in Mexico and applying for asylum from the next safe country (or your own) is what makes sense if you want a border. Or we need a national ID and no services besides emergency room (and deportation processing) without it ..and then up the work visa quota , and yes pay the workers properly. But they are seasonal or whatnot. It's not immediate immigration and they don't bring their families. They invest in back home.[/quote]

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