Re: What's the solution to the illegal immigration crisis? Sincere question.
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 11:48 pm
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1101 1010 T 1110 1101 0x11honorentheos wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 11:47 pmAlternatively, consider working through this in a more healthy non-deflective manner.
You don't read your own links. You ignored the first part of that CATO piece which said that money paid was for transportation TO THE BORDER TO APPLY FOR ASYLUM. There is absolutely no way to know what percentage of people pay smugglers to get INSIDE the border. What you're whining about is whether desperate people choose to pay for transportation to the border as opposed to walking thousands of miles through multiple countries. The latest wave is from Venezuela. Surely you don't expect them to pay nothing for transportation? Are some of these networks criminal? Sure, most likely. Are some of them dealing drugs and child trafficking? Probably so. But what does that have to do with anything really? You make it sound like these people are just as complicit in sex trafficking or drug smuggling.
You don't think there should be a penalty for people who pay criminal organizations?Vēritās wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:21 amSurely you don't expect them to pay nothing for transportation? Are some of these networks criminal? Sure, most likely. Are some of them dealing drugs and child trafficking? Probably so. But what does that have to do with anything really? You make it sound like these people are just as complicit in sex trafficking or drug smuggling.
I do not believe that, but some do, especially the ones who come here to work in construction.
Do I think people fleeing tyranny and communism who desperately pay for transportation to the border to apply for asylum should be treated as criminals? no.doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 1:41 amYou don't think there should be a penalty for people who pay criminal organizations?
I do not believe that, but some do, especially the ones who come here to work in construction.
That's in reference to the relatively few people who pay to get inside, which does not represent 80-95%. I suspect it represents less than a quarter of all migrants trying to get in. Just look at the numbers of people who show up at the border to apply for asylum and those who are deported back. Obviously they didn't pay thousands of dollars to get to their "final destination" somewhere in the heartland via rental car."Migrants typically pay 8,000 dollars to 10,000 dollars to be taken across the border, loaded into a tractor-trailer and driven to San Antonio, where they transfer to smaller vehicles for their final destinations across the United States, said Craig Larrabee, acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in San Antonio."
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international ... 445_4.html
You're the one repeating a bogus claim, now back it up for once instead of repeating it. Who do you know who has come here to work temporarily just so he can go back to buy a "nice" house in Mexico? What makes a house "nice" in Mexico anyhow? The scenario is fraught with too many assumptions and illogical ones at that. It assumes they're not really coming here to flee anything. All the unaccompanied children migrants are apparently, in your mind, coming here to work so they can go back and buy their Mom a house in Mexico? In fact, why worry about migrants at all if you truly believe they all go back to Mexico anyway?Do you think all of them just stay here and never go back to Mexico?
Compared to Mexican money, yes. But they come for a better life risking the lives of their families to come here, not just for a temporary layover. Your complaints about migrants don't hold water. You're trying to paint them as tax dodging rascals who are only here to use us so they can live better in Mexico. The fact is we have a shortage of workers and the economy would do well to let more in. The fact is Americans who are here legally work under the table all the time and have mastered that system better than any Juan who just came over here. In many cases these folks actually do pay into social security and employer taxes which they will never ever get to benefit from.How much do undocumented construction workers make? Any idea? Of course, you can easily find reports of many who are exploited, but the reality is nobody knows what their income on average is. However, there are some who do make good money.
Oh dang.Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:35 pmMatt Gaetz had sex with minors.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joel-gree ... with-minor
tl;dr - Matt Gaetz had sex with minors.
- Doc
A quarter is a lot.
We don't know how many undocumented immigrants come here through sophisticated subterranean drugs tunnels connecting the US and Mexico, but it could be a large number.
I'm not complaining about the majority of undocumented immigrants. More undocumented women here would be good for society.
WTF?doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 10:13 pmMore undocumented women here would be good for society.