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Background checks are done against a known list of those unable to purchase a gun. Determining citizenship is much more complicated. Again, can you prove citizenship if detained? Most people can't.
In terms of your question above, I also would be fine with everyone getting a unicorn pegasus and that's only slightly less likely to happen than deporting 10 million. The other three items you list are all doable in some sense, but there's no way to deport ten million people. It. Can't. Be. Done. The sooner we recognize that the better. And 62% won't be supporting the policy when there are detention camps, misidentified people, deaths, rapes, and God knows what other horrors showing up every day on the news year after year after year.
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What exactly do we gain by this? The cost of what you've outlined starts at around $500 billion. When you look at the economic impact, the cost to provide for separated families that are now on welfare, the estimated 1.5% drop in GDP, and any other variables that aren't covered in the initial estimates to just deport 10+ million people what are we gaining in the end? Under your proposal we're swapping a workforce that's already here and filling jobs for guest workers that come and go to fill the same jobs. Is that honesty worth the pain that every single american would feel? A path to citizenship, immigration reform, border security, and increasing guest workers as needed accomplishes the same with with far less cost, disruption, and doesn't make us look like Nazi Germany. |
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It is fair to say there is not one consolidated, accurate database somewhere. But then, one should be created anyway. We don't just want the "brown" people south of the border, we want the visa overstays also. And just so you know that this is not a new opinion from me, I'll quote myself from pg 2.
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I'm saying, set the goal or vision to get it done, hire a bunch of smarter people than you and me, give them a bunch of $ and backing, and let them figure it out. Quote:
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The GDP number here is higher than other numbers I've seen. But on the low end we'd be looking at a 1.5% drop in GDP. To be honest, your seem to be for this without thinking of the impact and the solution of "get smart people together to figure something out" is on par with wave a magic wand and make things happen. The same with "there has to be a database" and if not then we need one. Knowing that the same people that are largely pushing for this tend to be on the right, how do you think putting their names and information in a federal database is going to go over? There may be majority support now, but this would become massively unpopular in a hurry as soon as the real cost and impact hit people who shit themselves when gas prices go up a dime. Last edited by Atocep : 06-21-2024 at 06:09 PM. |
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I think that's on the extreme low end. You're talking hundreds of billions, maybe trillions just to do the enforcement part. The massive loss of GDP, tax revenue, and inflation would be really destructive to the economy. There's a reason politicians talk about this but don't actually want to do it. It plays well to racists but their donors would kill them. |
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The $500 billion was just the estimated cost to physically remove all illegal immigrants. And as I mentioned, that was a study from a decade ago. Just that part is probably topping a trillion now. The 10 year cost/impact would be in the several trillions of dollars. |
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This is fair. But here's my rationale. I've been asked questions and I've answered them. Then there are more "whatabouts" and drilldowns. Let me say this is perfectly fair (I'm guilty of it myself) but I think we can agree that I'll never be able to answer all the questions to everyone's satisfaction. And I don't claim to have all the detailed answers or solutions. I have the high-level guard rails that I want (but am willing to compromise in with a grand bargain, I believe in compromise). So yeah, being a consultant myself, it is absolutely normal for big corporations or government entities to identify a problem, send out a competitive RFP, review the responses and select a partner to help solve the problem. They understand trying to solve the problem in-house will be problematic, they need professionals. I've been there. It's not "waving the magic wand". I know it needs to go through a planning-analysis-design phase to answer all the questions that people here have. And I do know you can't solve a problem by saying it's impossible to fix/do. There are always options, it may not get to the 100% but there'll be 80% solutions. Quote:
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We know Venezuela won't take anyone back, so what's the plan? Are we going to go to war to enforce deportation?
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I think they have called up medical professionals, experts and consultants to help researchers. I mean great progress has been made in the fight against cancer? Or do you think we are still back in the 80sand at a standstill? BTW I was on the periphery of the IBM Watson AI team working with a medical system on cancer stuff Last edited by Edward64 : 06-21-2024 at 06:44 PM. |
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I'm sure with trillions of dollars, someone could figure out the logistics of investigating, arresting, detaining, trying, and deporting millions of people on top of preventing them from coming back. It'd be a massive undertaking, but with enough money, you can likely make it happen.
The issue isn't that we aren't asking "professionals", it's that most experts on the topic have said that doing so would destroy the economy. Price inflation, supply shortages, lack of service workers just to start. The trickle down effects of food shortages and the gutting of the construction industry would be devastating to every American. Not to mention the national security concerns you have with a country unable to provide affordable food or care for its citizens as the national debt skyrockets while the economy and tax revenues shrink. So it's not a logistics issue as much as there is not enough political capital to push that on to Americans so that you don't have to be burdened hearing a line cook speak Spanish at Chipotle. |
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This is the part that always gets me. I get it that right wing media loves to politicize every violent crime committed by a migrant, but can one person here or anywhere claim how illegals have tangibly made their lives worse? |
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[QUOTE ] so that you don't have to be burdened by the most vile sort of criminal possible at Chipotle.[/quote]
Fixed that utter and complete horseshit you posted for you.
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That’s very good. Basic consulting 101. Do a bunch of brainstorming with the team (and others) to come up with ideas to analyze further. Remember, never approach a problem by saying it’s impossible to fix. There’s always options with differing assumptions, risks, success rate etc. it’s typically a function of time, money, resources and leadership (or in this case, political will) Last edited by Edward64 : 06-22-2024 at 04:27 AM. |
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And how many innocent lives you're willing to fuck up in order to win.
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But it's quite obvious he's in total agreement with the "shithole countries" (and by implication, people) schtick so that's all that matters. Nevermind how disgusting it is to suggest that every non-American born fast food worker is a "vile criminal." Jesus.
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The GA GOP just based a platform that includes repealing a bunch of laws allowing legal immigration and creating "voluntary" program that will encourage blacks to go back to Africa.
The cruelty is the point and no Rand consultant or blue-ribbon commission is going to make this work.
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Exactly. Just like child separation. They have been programmed for decades that brown people are bad and no amount of money, consulting, brainstorming, etc....is going to change that. You can change policy, you can not change xenophobia and bigotry thats been reinforced over a lifetime. |
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I know damned well you can read better than that. And you know damned well you can read better than that, so you should be ashamed of yourself. You wanna go at me, you can find legit opportunities well enough, but don't stoop to this sort of stuff in order to ... what? ingratiate yourself with the worst of the worst FOFC has to offer. The vile criminal act is illegally violating the sanctity of the border. And you knew damned well that's what I meant.
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I will respectfully disagree with you here. I'm not necessarily disagreeing with what you said about GOP party (that's a different discussion), but I am more disagreeing what you said in bold, specifically about how minorities view "immigrants". You do not make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration. There is a difference between controlled, follow the process legal immigration vs uncontrolled immigration. I've looked but have not found any survey that asks the 2 direct questions in the same poll with same population, methodology etc. (1) do you support/want more legal immigration and also (2) do you support/want more illegal immigration. I strongly suspect the answers will be significantly different. There are plenty of surveys that asks questions that one may infer the answer, but nothing as plain and direct. And it doesn't help when media like Gallup comes up with BS statements https://news.gallup.com/poll/611135/...blem-list.aspx Quote:
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So not to clutter up the Harris vs Trump thread, continuing the discussion here with @Passacaglia. The 3 links provides context for the discussion if others wish to participate
Front Office Football Central - View Single Post - POTUS 2024 - Harris vs Trump - General Election Discussion Front Office Football Central - View Single Post - POTUS 2024 - Harris vs Trump - General Election Discussion Front Office Football Central - View Single Post - POTUS 2024 - Harris vs Trump - General Election Discussion |
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In addition to above quote, in my #317, I also said And to be fair (no one likes people cutting in line in front of them) ... And then the 3rd point, why give citizenship if people came in illegally when we can increase guest worker program and provide legal status (but not voting) for all the non-felon illegals. Quote:
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In below thread, I answered how I would handle the 11M+ illegals as President. POTUS 2024 - Harris vs Trump - General Election Discussion - Page 88 - Front Office Football Central, see starting #4351Similar question to you: how would you handle the 158M+ adults that want to immigrate? Last edited by Edward64 : 10-25-2024 at 05:51 AM. |
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Except because the laws are not perfect and both sides do interpret & change them for their benefits, a person's immigration status can go from legal to illegal and back again in a few strokes of a pen. Quote:
Immigration to the United States is based on everybody being placed in different lines with different priorities. No one is being cut in line as much as they are being told that their line or their place in their line is of less priority than other lines and other places in their own line. For example, a person could: -come to the US on a tourist visa -work in the US as a model while on that tourist visa despite that being a violation of immigration law, then get a H-1B visa(AKA “skilled workers” visa) three months later without leaving the country while still being a model, - Get one of five EB-1 visa(AKA the Einstein visa usually reserved for Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.) issued to people from Slovenia that year five years after that while still being a model. Oh and being married to a rich guy. -Then became a U.S. citizen five years after that and immediately sponsoring her parents to not only get green cards but to become U.S. citizenship. Yes, I am talking about the former First Lady but it is not about the who as much as it is to show how opaque immigration laws are and how they can be manipulated to fit the agenda you want. Quote:
Because as I showed above, we have been doing so in the past and continue to do so if we need to. We just manipulate the laws as needed. Quote:
HA! What about the last ten years of American history leads you to believe we want more PHDs to live here? But if we do, maybe we can grab all of our PHDs from Mexico, Central and South America and Africa and then grab our field workers from Europe and Asia. Put this law on the books. I refuse to feed into the narrative of non citizens being allowed to vote. Citizens vote, non citizens don't vote. What you seemed to be describing is some artificial level of restriction that comes from a line of thinking that says noncitizens should not be able to progress in U.S. society any further than the citizens are progressing and steps should be taken to put further restrictions on noncitizens to ensure citizens are ahead of them no matter what. Based on the history of the country when it comes to who seem to always get those restrictions and race, well if it walks like a duck... Quote:
Per your quote above, 158+ people want to move here, not become citizens here. Whatever number do end up wanting to become citizens after coming have a pathway to follow. What is fascinating to me about your skillset preference argument is you want to give U.S. citizens a leg up over non citizens everywhere else except in this one area. The one area where U.S. citizens get priority and preferential treatment in the entire immigration process. Why would you want to take away this area of preferential treatment enjoyed by U.S. citizens in the immigration process since giving US citizens preferential treatment seems to be a priority for you everywhere else?
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What I would say is ALL developed+ countries have categories for people wanting to come to their countries. In general, there are immigrants for permanency (voting rights) and non-immigrants for work, tourism, retirement etc. (no voting rights). Therefore, for the 11M+ illegals, I would categorize them in the latter. You see racism, I see what all other developed countries do as a natural consequence in understanding that they cannot accept everyone/anyone that wants to come, immigrate and vote. ... and this includes the progressive wonderland of Nordic countries. Last edited by Edward64 : 10-26-2024 at 07:45 AM. |
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And despite it being a crime, our country has had thousands of people enter the country illegally, then declare their entry legal on at least a temporary basis and has even gone so far as deciding since they were already here we would allow them to stay and even provide them a path to citizenship. Look up Mariel Boatlift for one. I am not debating whether it was right to do so then or whether that time should hold precedent now. I am saying that this the law is the law stance is not a thing when it comes to immigration. Quote:
The numbers are out of whack in your example but let's go with it. If 400,00 applications for visas are in the queue for the legal process, you aren't 1,020 out of the 400,000. You are X number out of in whatever category of visa you are applying for from your country of origin. There are hard caps for the visas that are issued to each country and they are not transferable. I used the example before. Let's say for the sake of this discussion there are 15 employment visas being issued by the US worldwide. For whatever reason(see how this could be problematic), the employment visa cap for Mexico is 5, the cap for Liechtenstein is also 5 and the cap for Egypt is 5. If there are 15 applicants from Mexico who have been there for 10 years, and then 2 applicants from Liechtenstein and 3 from Egypt put their applications in this year, if the applications from Liechtenstein and Egypt are approved before applicant #6 in Mexico, the applicants from Liechtenstein and Egypt did not skip the line ahead of the Mexican applicant. They are not in the same lines. I would suggest that the current undocumented residents would also be in a different line. Quote:
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So, naturalized citizens(voting rights) and non-citizens(no voting rights). If you are telling me that we are only naturalizing 100 people every year, that's fine. But if we are naturalizing 100 people who all meet the requirements to do so but we are refusing to naturalize certain groups because of where they are from, what they look like, or they are not in the top 1% of the country again walks like a duck... BTW if I remember correctly, we Americans HATE when we are compared to those other places. We have our own way of doing this. I believe this is what we brag about re: immigration. Quote:
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When you break down how visas are issued by categories, about 70% of the visa issued by the US is family based. Using sports terms, the caps for employment(21%), diversity(8%), others(1%) are pretty much hard caps, the family based categories are very very soft caps. In theory, that means that only 37.5% of visas issued by the US should be issued to spouses, children under 21 and parents of US citizens. In reality, US citizens have and have always had a Larry Bird exception in this category. There is no limit for us. The category for children 21 and over and siblings etc(33.5%) is a little bit harder but again this category have more leeway than say employment. Quote:
I will come back to this. I will say this is not an issue until we are honest about all the reasons people think it it is an issue.
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I did not get a chance to look over the poll so I waited until I had a a chance to properly go over it. For starters, while there was 16% worldwide was a decade high, it went up a whole 2% from the low point of 14% in 2011 which was down from...16% in 2007. I guess we will see where it will go from there. Specifically dealing with US. I don't think anyone is supervised it is the top destination. I am surprised that the percentage has dropped from a high of 24% to the current 18%. I would think that would make people worried about the foreigners coming in would be overjoyed especially with the percentage of those choosing to go to Canada. For me, the most important part is this paragraph from the Implications section. Quote:
Using the percentages that was used in an article linked in the one you posted as a guide, only about 8% of the global population that wants to move permanently plan to do so in the next 12 months or so. Using that scary 158-160 million number for those potentially coming to the US, you are looking at 12.6-12.8 people showing up at Ellis Island. Among the 8% who plan on moving in the next 12 months, 39% have actively made preparations to move which is define as taking necessary steps such as applying for visas or residency and purchasing tickets. That correlates to about 4.9 million people. Finally among that 4.9 million, 60% or 2.94 million have four years of schooling beyond high school or a college degree. So the vast majority of the people who most likely to show up on borders, are exactly the people we supposed to be giving priority to when it comes to allowing people into the country and are doing so legally. Do we want them here? I would argue that the focus on the 158-160 million scary immigrants as opposed to even considering the more realistic 2.94 million of people who are the most likely to come is an example of why I have the stance I do and why the distinction of legal/illegal immigration is meaningless.
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You seem to say that laws change. I agree with that. So? Law change all the time depending on who is in the Presidency, Congress and SCOTUS. So until the laws change, we follow what is the law now. Quote:
My numbers were just to illustrate. Sure, the illegals would be in a different "line/quota". But there are now 400k legals + 11M illegals = 11.4M now. If you don't think the 400k schedule/process dates will be impacted by an additional 11M to be reviewed, vetted etc. then you have more faith in the INS than I do. There are already years and years of backlog for the legal ones. Quote:
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If the PhD is black, brown, yellow etc. give them preference. If they have needed skills, give them preference. Skin color does not play a role. Quote:
Unfortunately, a great many do not believe we have an illegal immigration problem ... and this plays, in no small part, the appeal of Trump (and the more right wing in Canada and western Europe). Regarding your eloquent quote, times change. We should adapt to the times and current conditions. Last edited by Edward64 : 10-26-2024 at 07:14 PM. |
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If I understand your point, you are saying if we reduce family based immigration (and increase skills based immigration), that this takes away preferential treatment enjoyed by US citizens who want to sponsor those family members? https://www.americanimmigrationcounc...n-system-works Quote:
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Note that I'm not saying decrease legal immigration. I am definitely for increasing legal immigration, and increasing it much more by skillset. Your adult brother/sister want to come over, encourage them to get MS/PhDs, or critical skill like nursing etc. Last edited by Edward64 : 10-26-2024 at 07:10 PM. |
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This is just not true. We recently gave exemptions to Ukraine immigrants over everyone else. We did the same for South Africans after apartheid. We even have special adoption agreements with countries like Russia so that white babies can be adopted easier and obtain citizenship upon arrival. Laws are laws as you say but to pretend their aren't preferences towards specific ethnicities and races is ignorance of the system. |
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My full quote is below and was me saying we should give preference to PhDs (or highly skilled) more than it is now. I reiterate, what I want to happen, not what is happening now. Quote:
But on your broader statement. Nothing is absolutely fair and equal. There are definitely quotas by country (e.g. Ukraine, South Africans) and not specifically for skin color, there are guidelines for these. If you don't like the quotas, then change them through the process. Others will disagree with what you want (some more brown, some more black, some more yellow etc.), but then that's why we have elections and ultimately those rules are created/changed. See link below. The table is not specific to country quotas but backlog on green card by country, you'll see there is plenty of yellow, brown included. So yeah, you may be able to find situations of bias/prejudice, but in-progress shows lots of different skin colors. https://immigrationforum.org/wp-cont...n-Quotas-5.png Quote:
I am not well versed on adoption agreements, but at one time I know there were alot of yellow babies from China being adopted. Is it the US government selecting who is adopted or is it the potential parents that decide? Last edited by Edward64 : 10-26-2024 at 07:15 PM. |
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If the priority is to get rid of the illegals, we can do what we always do. Change the laws/processes to turn the illegals into legals. You know like we do for those with money and connections. Quote:
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Let's put a pin in this piece for now.
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Is there evidence that we need MDs more than we general laborers? If we are prioritizing needs why aren’t we creating more MDs and importing more laborers rather than creating more laborers and importing MDs?
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We specifically limit the number of MDs we can train each year and that number isn't enough to match the current population. We should train more doctors, but the AMA is against that so it doesn't happen.
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We will need doctors, but that's a problem we've let lobbyists create to drive up prices. We can fix it fairly quickly but won't. That is not an immigration issue.
And wanting more PhDs is fine but it seems kind of silly to be importing them. Just make education more accessible and affordable and you'll create more PhDs too. But the PhD thing is just a way to control the ethnic and racial makeup of immigrants. It's not about bringing in more PhDs (why does that even matter?). A system like that would benefit wealthier, whiter nations. And there would certainly be restrictions on PhDs from less white countries by claiming they don't meet some accreditation or some subjective metric. The people arguing that almost always have a vision of their perfect immigrant and we know what they look like. |
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