spudone wrote:
big kahuna wrote:
spudone wrote:
I honestly don't care about border enforcement beyond what we already have. Like I've said before, it is similar to the war on drugs. You can't win on the supply side.
Fix the demand for illegal workers. Actually, I kind of agree with that.
But that doesn't mean I want a bunch of
inmigrante ilegales running around the country.
And those fuckers overstaying their visas? Their asses gotta go as well. Maybe if we started fucking their shit up and treating what they're doing as a serious matter folks would knock that shit off. But we won't, sad to say.
Your hyperbole aside, my suggestions:
1) e-verify and work visas, with the caveat that a worker can't renew for another year until there's dated proof of exiting the U.S. first.
2) work towards better foreign policy regarding conditions in Central America (thus, people will have less desire to leave their home countries).
3) I don't have a good solution for #3, but if Mexico gets a better handle on their drug cartel situation, civilians are less in harm's way, and less likely to flee towards the U.S.
I think on #3, for the long haul, we can do much more to address the opioid epidemic in the U.S. and provide better treatment. Eventually this will curb some of the demand. Right now we've just clamped down on the prescription drugs and Mexico has filled the void.
Every dollar to the cartels just entrenches their power.
Lots of good stuff, that Democrats and their buds among the pro-Chamber of Commerce Republican side of the house are likely to try to kill in the womb.
"Better foreign policy in Central America" sounds great, though I don't think anyone here in the U.S. has any idea of what that would be. Certainly, those idiots down there wouldn't know, and wouldn't care, other than that if we would just give them billions more in foreign aid it would help (not).
All I know is their asses need to stay down there and not come up here. Most of them are coming for jobs or other economic reasons, which isn't a valid asylum reason, nor is crime in their neighborhoods or states or provinces or cities. I'm sorry for them, but their countries need to unfuck themselves. If they want help with that, we can pitch in. We've done that in the past, I think.
"Politics is just show business for ugly people."