The debate over immigration continues.
I have 3 questions. These aren't rhetorical questions, or Socratic questions intended to evoke a specific response. These are actual questions that I don't know the answers to, but whose answers I think are important to forming an appropriate opinion.
1. People talk about border guards and building a 3000 mile wall, but how difficult is it for immigrants to just take the bus to San Diego, tell the folks at the border booth that they're just visiting, and then stay? What percentage sneak in across the desert, as opposed to lying at the border booth? And why would they do that?
2. What would really happen if we just let in everyone who wanted? Not willy-nilly (or pel-mel for that matter), but if immigrants only had to fill out some forms, have a background check, and stay out of trouble and we let them straight in to start working? Why would this necessarily be a bad thing?
3. Why has this become such an issue right now? Was there a specific event that started the current large amount of news coverage, or did someone start advocating one way or another to bring it to the fore?
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3 comments:
1) I don't know.
2) Probably not a bad thing.
3) The Senate and House have been considering fairly harsh "immigration reform" bills. The protests are largely a response to the proposed laws.
1. The pots and pans would give them away.
2. We would become an overpopulated country without enough jobs. It would also strain our school systems, etc etc etc.
3. See #2.
1. They can't bus, actually, because there's a "Dead Zone" right at the border...it kills all electronics and engines. The immigrants have to walk, which makes 'em way easy to nab.
2. Let's send 'em all to Canada, instead. Lots of space up there!
3. Ask the Senate and the House, they know.
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