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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStephen Miller doing a hard sell on immigration. The President will not be questioned!
Right now on live TV. "You're going to see MASSIVE support on this!"
Raster
(20,998 posts)...Miller is a natural. I suspect he eats live kittens and worships Satan.
icymist
(15,888 posts)miller is a class all of his own.
Raster
(20,998 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)Stephen Miller is the exact embodiment of "bloodless zealot" that I envision as residing in the dictionary next to the phrase "picture of a bloodless zealot"...
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Why are there so many creepy republicans? Like REALLY creepy.
procon
(15,805 posts)to compete with low wage immigrant workers to do the worst sort of jobs???
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)He also told Glenn Thrush that if low-paid immigrant workers came to the New York Times and displaced him, he might have a better appreciation for what American workers are going through.
I am not making this up.
procon
(15,805 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Waiting for Gov. Christie of New Jersey to weigh in.
Johnny2X2X
(19,240 posts)The Mexican cartels control the border. Like weed, they love that this is illegal as it gives them the ability to charge a lot for passage over their border.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Their plane landed, they got their stuff from baggage, their family picked them up, and they just didn't go home by the date on the paperwork.
So you're absolutely correct: making it harder to come here legally will just make people pay coyotes for border crossings.
This is what's so insane about America: we spend, with hidden costs, about 1.3 trillion a year on "defense" and protecting ourselves from imaginary enemies. Or worse, enemies we create or maintain just out of habit. Meanwhile, if we spent a fraction of that money on, say, improving infrastructure and opportunity in El Salvador -- where a little bit would go a very long way -- there would be fewer immigrants because there would be less reason to leave.
But Americans, in general, are terrified that someone, somewhere is getting something that they don't "deserve." We'll spend hundreds of billions on walls and Coast Guards and ICE raids over the course of a few years and Americans will wave flags and scream approval (and ten percent off for veterans and first responders). But the idea of spending maybe just a couple of billion in direct, middle-size grants and loans to a neighboring country? I'll be lucky if the FBI isn't already investigating me for charges of sedition and communism.
We've known for decades that, as dumb as it sounds, the best way out of extreme poverty is giving people money. No "micro loan" bullshit, no strings attached. It costs a lot more to do that in wealthier nations (where money is worth more), but some largesse in Central America would be the cheapest, fastest, AND most humane way of stopping illegal immigration.
(A similar phenomenon in the US can be found with homelessness. It costs society substantially less to just give homeless people homes. No strings, no sobriety requirement, no trainings. Just a stable home. It works incredibly well, as small experiments in places like Portland, LA, and SLC have shown, but is an incredibly hard sell: Americans don't want to give anything to the "undeserving," even if it's in our own economic benefit. We would rather spend three times as much on the homeless rather than give them homes, and spend literally a million times more on "security" rather than give security to other countries.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)Is that what way too much Xanax looks like?.
Or some other chemical?.
superpatriotman
(6,253 posts)Sad.