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Then lets be blatant and straightforward then. "If you're rich and willing to spend, we want you. If you're average or poor, fuck you."
by kefka 9y ago
Then lets be blatant and straightforward then.
"If you're rich and willing to spend, we want you. If you're average or poor, fuck you."
- ktta 9y agoYou saying that as if rest of the world isn't like that.
- eropple 9y agoIt's not. And, if it were, that has no bearing on whether we should.
- ktta 9y agoI'm generalizing a bit, but if you think that the rest of the world isn't then you are very naive. You simply haven't seen the world through the glasses of being a poor and powerless person from a third world country. Sympathy is dead to governments and most businesses. Especially with the nationalist opinion gaining popularity recently, I would expect sympathy for the fellow human if they're from a different country to die down even more.
- ryanmarsh 9y agoYes we want capital and brains to flow in but your comment isn't fair. The US has a history of settling refugees here. We also have a purposefully porous southern border and have normalized illegal immigrants.
- ktta 9y agoThe current government seems to vehemently oppose the idea of normalizing illegal immigrants.
- rublev 9y agoillegal immigrants.
- ryanmarsh 9y agoIt seems that way. However if we really wanted to deny border crossing we would. It just isn't really a priority. The issue gets a lot of air time but do you think if it really was a national priority it would be so easy to cross? When I was a kid we used to cross the river into Mexico to go eat (on hunting trips near the border). We'd pay a guy to row us across and then back. It was a well known thing. People from both sides used it to go back and forth all the time. Guess what, now that guy in a row boat is an official US border patrol checkpoint. LOL The border is a big joke.
- ktta 9y ago>if we really wanted to deny border crossing we would. It just isn't really a priority. I doubt it. If you really wanted to deny border crossing, you'd have to allocate so much money to ICE that it would upend the federdal spending budget. It isn't feasible easily. That would make the current administration look stupider that it already is.
- HalteMich 9y agoHyperbole
- sumedh 9y agoWhy is that a bad thing?
- kefka 9y ago> The US has a history of settling refugees here. Oh please. You don't know your history then. We also refused Irish during the Potato Famine. This time it was because they weren't "healthy" - aka, no damn Mics. After a campaign of anti-Irish sentiment, the Italians came here. We have a racial slur for them - fops. They were turned out en masse. We denied the Jews coming here in '36. Didn't like Jewish - they kill and eat children! (Yes, this is in the US National Holocaust Museum as example of propaganda.) We denied the Jews again in '46, AFTER knowing the atrocities they suffered in Europe. You know, those damned Jews. In the 50's, we laid heavily into the Slavic and Baltic countries... Those damned Commies. Oh you were leaving because of humanitarian crisis? LIAR. That's just a few examples. This whole Muslim ban has been done before with nations, politics, and religion (Irish, Communist/Socialist, Jewish respectively). Most populist "leaders" will garner support by singling one group out and attacking. Just like Hitler did, and following in the footsteps, Trump.