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originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: DBCowboy
Open borders does not remove the legal jurisdictions provided by borders
It makes a nation just an idea on paper and eliminates a country's identity in a practical sense.
originally posted by: ker2010
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: howtonhawky
Madness. All the people with brains in their head just wanted him to pick up the phone, call ICE and border control, and say "nevermind". Instead he chose to make a big show of it, like he was doing something great. The man's a fool and apparently believes his "base" is too.
I have seen your posts so I know this is like throwing a milk bucket under a bull but here goes:
Fact: The vast majority of the 12,000 children/minors crossed the border by themselves or with a stranger (and a lot of them were SENT across the border by their parents-- so they entered the United States already separated from their families). And no, I'm not just regurgitating a tweet posted by Trump. Even NPR has reported that "nearly 2,000 children" have been separated from their parents (which supports the claim about the vast majority). What were they supposed to do with the minors who crossed the border by themselves? Let them just roam around the country by themselves with no questions and no help? Because that certainly doesn't sound like a solution. At all.
People are obviously taking this to the utmost hyperbolic levels possible (by calling it a "concentration camp"), but the fact of the matter is this: These children are being treated no differently than any other American Citizen child who has needed to be taken out of their family situation due to felonies/crimes/violent crimes committed by the adult family members. And if you cross the border illegally ... THEN YOU ARE BREAKING THE LAW. Simple as that. I have also read reports about how the majority of claims for "refuge/sanctuary" are completely false. I can't believe that people can tell me with a straight face that the system hasn't been abused. Come the # on.
But yeah, "Nazi Germany REEE" and everything. Let's not approach anything with nuance or critical thinking anymore. Let's just all act like we have a nasty case of PMS and throw crying temper tantrums as a method to change policy or as a means of debate.
originally posted by: projectvxn
There is a process in place. I think we both can agree that we need to streamline that process.
Why change what was working well?
Josh Caplan
@joshdcaplan
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson admits to expanding family detention under President Obama.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: xuenchen
So you never thought about the multi billion dollar trafficking and smuggling operations flooding the country.
That's fake news.
Southwestern border
Most of the illicit drugs come into the United States across the vast 2,000-mile land border between the US and Mexico, called the Southwestern border or SWB. Drug cartels in Mexico utilize drug mules, tunnels, boats, vehicles, trains, aircrafts, donkeys, and couriers to get illegal drugs into America. Mexican drug cartels make an estimated $19-$29 billion a year on drug sales in the United States. Conflicts between drug cartels over territory as well as the attempts to stop drug trafficking by law enforcement officials often results in violence, and this has caused over 55,000 deaths since the proclaimed Mexican Drug War began in 2006.
In 2013, over 24 million Americans aged 12 and older were current illicit drug users, meaning they had abused drugs in the month prior to the national survey.
Profits from Human Trafficking by Mexican Drug Cartels
The director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean stated that Mexican drug cartels made up to $10 Billion in 2012 from the sexual services and labor exploitation of human trafficking victims.
A different non-governmental organization, Asahac, estimated that over half of the migrants from Central American who are attempting to enter the United States are captured either by human traffickers or human smuggling rings.
sovereignnations.com...
Why is there a migrant crisis in the Mediterranean? Why are NGOs involved? Because there is an extensive network of open borders activists and organizations behind it; many of them are directly funded by or cooperated with George Soros’ Open Society. Is it illegal? Not really. Political activism is an essential part of democratic societies. However, sometimes it goes too far, or the promoted causes prove to be either unrealistic or unsustainable
thegoldwater.com...
e've also learned that a sect of radicalized Socialists are also assisting in the invasion, which makes the matter this much more threatening to the people of the United States of America, and that George Soros funded propagandists are pushing hard in an information war of manipulation to depict these Communists as being “innocent families seeking refuge,” which is completely false.
originally posted by: Aazadan
a reply to: xuenchen
If we legalized most of those drugs and ended the war on drugs, focusing more on treatment than prosecution we would have far fewer drug users, and the ones we did have would be split between the cartels and keeping the money in the country.
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: Martin75
A country HAS to have borders. It's what makes the country.
So why does supporting the law make me scared of brown people? Stupid has kicked into overdrive
The United States has open borders between states. The states aren't disappearing. Borders are nothing more than an outline of legal jurisdictions.
I see this argument all the time, yet both the US and Europe are standing proof right now that open borders don't destroy the state.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: Xcathdra
I called it.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D) and other Democrats slammed Trump for the executive order on immigration. Durbin was doing an interview and blasted Trump saying his EO is not legal because it violates Flores.
They want zero prosecutions of illegal immigrants. They won't be happy until they get that. They won't accept any bill that doesn't do that. They don't care about those kids. It was never about keeping them with their families. It's about letting in as many illegal immigrants as possible.
originally posted by: ThirdEyeofHorus
originally posted by: Aazadan
originally posted by: Martin75
A country HAS to have borders. It's what makes the country.
So why does supporting the law make me scared of brown people? Stupid has kicked into overdrive
The United States has open borders between states. The states aren't disappearing. Borders are nothing more than an outline of legal jurisdictions.
I see this argument all the time, yet both the US and Europe are standing proof right now that open borders don't destroy the state.
Perhaps the operating word in your own post is "legal"
Think about that. Do you want to eliminate all immigration laws to allow for anyone to go anywhere with zero accountability? Do you imagine that a plan like that really figures in to the NWO Open Borders Society?
originally posted by: Subaeruginosa
originally posted by: SteamyJeans
“The measure would allow children to stay in detention with parents for an extended period of time.
So now, instead of separating kids from their parents, their just gonna detain women and children in (essentially) minimum security prisons, alongside potentially very dangerous and violent men.