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The Border

Brian-M

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I'm currently watching The Border (reality show), with all the border security agents trying to catch illegal immigrants and drug-dealers.

Seeing the extreme amount of risk and effort the immigrants go through to try and get into the US, such as crossing the fence in the desert miles away from any towns, with very little food or water, risking dying from thirst or bandit attacks, and mostly ending up getting caught, I can't help but wonder what the point of keeping them out is.

Why not just give anyone who wants to get into the US provisional Permanent Resident status? Welcome them in, give them official papers and a bus ticket.

It'd save lives (a lot of people die trying to get in) and a lot of effort in trying to keep them out. Plus it'd mean that they'd only have to worry about catching smugglers sneaking across the boarder (because immigrants would just go straight through customs along with returning tourists).

Why don't they do this? Do people think that letting prospective immigrants freely enter the country will somehow cause the US economy to collapse? That law and order will suddenly crumble and anarchy reign supreme?

What sound reasons are there for restricting entry?
 
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What and destroy the USA. The USA didn't get to be the bestest and mightiest nation ever seen by allowing a load of immigrants to settle there.
 
One theory is that some people object more to the ethnicity, language, and religion of the southwards origin illegal aliens and would be more tolerant if the immigrants were more white, more English speaking, and more Protestant.
 
Brian-M said:
I'm currently watching The Border (reality show), with all the border security agents trying to catch illegal immigrants and drug-dealers.

Seeing the extreme amount of risk and effort the immigrants go through to try and get into the US, such as crossing the fence in the desert miles away from any towns, with very little food or water, risking dying from thirst or bandit attacks, and mostly ending up getting caught, I can't help but wonder what the point of keeping them out is.

Why not just give anyone who wants to get into the US provisional Permanent Resident status? Welcome them in, give them official papers and a bus ticket.

It'd save lives (a lot of people die trying to get in) and a lot of effort in trying to keep them out. Plus it'd mean that they'd only have to worry about catching smugglers sneaking across the boarder (because immigrants would just go straight through customs along with returning tourists).

Why don't they do this? Do people think that letting prospective immigrants freely enter the country will somehow cause the US economy to collapse? That law and order will suddenly crumble and anarchy reign supreme?

What sound reasons are there for restricting entry?
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We know what happened to the Indians so we're taking no chances.
 
Brian-M said:
I'm currently watching The Border (reality show), with all the border security agents trying to catch illegal immigrants and drug-dealers.

Seeing the extreme amount of risk and effort the immigrants go through to try and get into the US, such as crossing the fence in the desert miles away from any towns, with very little food or water, risking dying from thirst or bandit attacks, and mostly ending up getting caught, I can't help but wonder what the point of keeping them out is.

Why not just give anyone who wants to get into the US provisional Permanent Resident status? Welcome them in, give them official papers and a bus ticket.

It'd save lives (a lot of people die trying to get in) and a lot of effort in trying to keep them out. Plus it'd mean that they'd only have to worry about catching smugglers sneaking across the boarder (because immigrants would just go straight through customs along with returning tourists).

Why don't they do this? Do people think that letting prospective immigrants freely enter the country will somehow cause the US economy to collapse? That law and order will suddenly crumble and anarchy reign supreme?

What sound reasons are there for restricting entry?
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Do you want your country to turn into India?
 
What I still don't get is this.

If I go to the US.... I just get on a plane and go.... Why don't illegals, simply drive to the states? I know they are poor and can't afford cars... but they pay large sums to get over anyway.
 
Hey, if India is so cool and everything, what were all those Indians doing in America anyway. That's what I think we're missing in all this.
 
TragicMonkey said:
One theory is that some people object more to the ethnicity, language, and religion of the southwards origin illegal aliens and would be more tolerant if the immigrants were more white, more English speaking, and more Protestant.
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Maybe. But after once spending 3 hours at the border crossing between British Columbia and Washington state I couldn't help but ask myself why the barriers and guards are there. You really couldn't ask for friendlier neighbors (or if it's your thing, whiter or more English speaking neighbors).
 
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No job, nowhere to live, what are they likely to do in order to survive if they can't get a job?
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The U.S. is the only country in the world that restricts entry, you know. You can go anywhere else in the world with no Visa, no Passport, Hell, you can even have a tattoo of Budda, or a swastika in plain sight and just waltz right in...
 
rwguinn said:
The U.S. is the only country in the world that restricts entry, you know. You can go anywhere else in the world with no Visa, no Passport, Hell, you can even have a tattoo of Budda, or a swastika in plain sight and just waltz right in...
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OK, this is a sarcasm post. I am really slow on the uptake with these, sorry.
 
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rwguinn said:
Body of work.
Also, look at where the OP lives. Another Island, with REAL sharks in the moat.
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Yes, I did notice that. He should take a trip to one of the border cities we have here in Texas and he might get a clue.
 
I was talking to some long-time residents in a bar in west Kansas last week, and they were bemoaning how "illegals" had destroyed the community they grew up in. They were friendly folks so I didnt engage in political discussion with them--just interesting to hear the perspective of old-timers in that rural area. It is a bit odd how the governement ostensibly wants to keep illegals out, while big-business (in this case, the meat-packing industry) welcomes the cheap labor with open arms.
 
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