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What should America do about the border?
Accept those that come and act to integrate them into society. They come seeing a better life and reprieve from persecution, just as the immigrants from Europe through the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s did.
I am so for this. I would love for immigrants to come into my area and open businesses in all the empty storefronts and do all the hard work in restoring a lost economy. I don't know what conservatives are trying to protect? The long picked over bones of the 50s?
The "white race" is the lie sold by people like Tucker Carlson and his promotion of the white supremacist "Great Replacement theory." Its why Trump said immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of our country.
There's a reason they were both endorsed by David Duke in 2020.
Practical answer: pour funding into immigration courts and hire a bunch more immigration judges, and scale up the pro bono legal aid.
The phenomena of mass asylum requests are driven by the 4 year wait times to get a case adjudicated. If we got that down to a couple of months, then fewer people with weak cases would attempt it.
these people dont seem to understand the migration actually helps our economy. if immigrants are successfully integrated with jobs and taxes, etc. they cause less legal problems and are a benefit to the community.
but they cant see past their racism. this is all racists all the way down. there is no border problem accept when we choose for it to be a problem.
we spend 2 Billion dollars a day to protect the planet with our 'defense'... but we cant seem to figure out how to just let immigrants come in and get jobs that no one else wants??
Start tracking the number of migrants leaving the country, for starters.
Google "circular migration," if you want to get a full grasp of what's actually happening at the border and what the politicians don't want you to know.
NOT shoot people for a start.
https://bookwyrm.social/book/116487/s/open-borders
Read this. It's in most public libraries, either digitally or physically, if not both.
Open that bitch up and make America truly great. Israel is a false idol, if their God was true then America could be Zion for all people. Instead, religious fascists allow corporations to enslave the public to make room for their own agenda. We should immediately defund Israel and put that money into the border and use it to fund asylum programs, especially for Palestineans and Ukrainians displaced by their genocidal neighbors, as atonement for our own genocidal past.