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Mar 12·edited Mar 12

The solution is easy. Australia had similar issue several years ago when people were coming on the boats causing many deaths also criminals were profiting on smuggling people.

What did Australia do? They passed a law stating that anyone crossing the border illegally has no possibility of ever getting asylum or legal visa and they would be deported immediately.

Also if you get caught employing illegal immigrants you face enormous fines, making entire market for illegal migrant labor dead.

Solution already exist, there is just no will in congress to do anything.

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Honestly, it's an easy solution.

1. CLOSE the border. Like COMPLETELY it shut it down. Announce it to the world, we are shutting it down until...

2. We sift through all the illegals who are here. If you are here and want to work, LINE UP. You will work and you will be TAXED up the ass like all working Americans, but there will be a path to citizenship. If you don't like it....

3. SHIP back all criminals and deviants. During the above steps...

4. Work on all immigration laws to rectify all border and immigration problems, then...

5. Re-open border under a much tighter security not letting EVERY GOD DAMN LIVING BEING CROSS OVER.

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Build a wall as tight as the Egyptians have with Gaza.

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Gee... what should we do about the border crisis?

1) Revert to the policies in place on January 19, 2021

2) Find all the illegal aliens that have arrived since January 20, 2021 and send them home.

3) Apologize to all Americans

This is pretty damn simple. What is to debate?

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This isn't about immigration. This is an outright invasion. And our current government is letting it happen. They don't care who's coming in or why. They are NOT protecting us. It's TREASON.

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The border crisis is 100% on Biden. His time in office is historic in that for the first time ever, an American presidency defaulted to a position in polar opposition to federal law. Instead of the conventional “block, detain, deport and deter of all previous Democratic Party presidents,” the Biden administration has taken the formal stated position that southern border traffic should be made “safe, humane and orderly” into the nation’s interior. No American president has ever decided that, as a matter of national policy, the executive branch would abdicate the enforcement of immigration statutes and basically erect turnstiles at the border, refusing to stymie illegal immigration as required in well-established federal laws. For the first time since federal immigration laws were passed in 1903, a president effectively ended deportation of every kind and established in its place a first-ever sanctuary nation.

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/la-invitacion

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I find it mind boggling these are the best people they could find to have this debate. It’s like they’re trying to make us dumber. If you’re going to have a debate structure it like a debate - here’s someone’s who had their ranch overrun on the border. Here’s someone who is employing migrants and the cost/benefit. Here’s hoteliers making serious cash on this “crisis.” Here’s someone who works for an NGO that’s bringing people here. Here’s someone working against those NGOs.

This “debate” is talking head morons who know nothing about anything… how is that POSSIBLY the best someone with resources can come up with?!

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Mar 12·edited Mar 12

How do we fix it? Easy. Grow some guts and deport the entire lot of them. And if people protest, tough. This tidal wave is ruining our country. Worse, it's deliberate. A country with sane people would grab the ringleader - JR Biden - out of his lair, walk him to the nearest lamp post and stretch his neck. Just like the justice meted out to similarly destructive autocratic fools such as the Ceaucescus. Don't like it? Tough. I don't like my country being invaded and ruined.

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The premise is a lie. Nobody is asking for closed borders. People are asking for enforcement of immigration law.

The American citizens who are descendants of legal immigrants are rightfully angry and confused by the catering to those who do not even make any pretense of attempting to follow the laws set by congress in order to arrive on our shores. It's a bullshit argument to say Americans hate "immigrants." Americans hate politicians who like to conflate those who follow the law with those who don't. A special place in hell awaits those semantic language-fuckers.

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What should we do about the fact that lowlife intellectual pussies who attended college are allowing psychopathic Neanderthals to invade our country??

I don’t know.

Obviously the NGOs and the drug dealers and the various Democrats involved in this human trafficking scheme should be hunted and killed by the military.

But we won’t do that because this country is already dead. However, we still have time for some more homosexual parades so we should do those as the public suicide of America continues.

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Bogus Question: Very few of us are in favor of closing the border. Most of us are in favor of regaining control of our border.

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Why do they always use images of families when the vast majority are military aged single men.

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Controlling our border is not rocket science. Immigrants should obtain pre-screening and authorization from abroad except in rare instances (e.g. slaughter of Yazidi Christians) with Executive and/or Legislative approval required. Those who cross without such authorization should be immediately deported across the same border they crossed. Legal immigration should be increased, and it should target the needs of the U.S. economy in terms of skills or capital the individual brings. Legal immigrants should be allowed and encouraged to work immediately. Illegal immigration should cease. Seasonal visas for agriculture should be available for farming, with employers making reasonable housing arrangements for these temporary workers. Immigrants who commit serious offenses should be deported. If those offenses rise to the level of terrorism, any immediate family/relatives should be deported as well. Minors who came here should have a path to citizenship. Adults who came here should be vetted individually, with a possible path to residency but no path to citizenship unless they return to their countries and apply legally.

Next question.

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Whoever is on the opposite side of Cenk, please ask him why he thinks it's A O K to let the world come to America, but Jews can't come home to Jerusalem.

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Note that no one would be "undocumented" if they were documented ( photos etc) before they enter the country ( just as those who seek to fly must show a photo ID-- in contrast to voting of course).

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Terrible debate question for such a serious issue, combined with a mostly ludicrous panel to discuss it. (I don't agree with Sohrab Ahmari, but at least he's a serious debater.) No. The answer is "no," but for the Democrats in charge, "no" means virtually no border control. I'm very pro-immigration, but what we have now: sneaky workarounds using planes and busses to send illegals across the country in the middle of the night and/or stopping them--if possible--and then releasing them with court dates years in the making is so obviously unworkable and un-American that I can't grasp the usefulness of such a *debate*.

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