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Because foreigners are not welcome. Seriously, this isn't hard to understand. The US is an unfriendly, hostile nation. While most Americans, individually, ar
by idontpost 8y ago
Because foreigners are not welcome.
Seriously, this isn't hard to understand. The US is an unfriendly, hostile nation. While most Americans, individually, are not unfriendly or hostile to foreigners, the government is decidedly so and has been for decades.
- _red 8y agoNot true. The southern border is wide open. However you need to be the right socio-economic stratum to be accepted. We are mainly interested in importing slave chattel, who can be used to pick avocados, clean the rich houses, and vote democrat. Its the modern plantation 2.0 system.
- nraynaud 8y agoI live in Arizona and my experience is not that of an open border. There are packs are rich republicans with guns scouring the border to play tough, defoliation by helicopter, occupied-France style CBP checkpoints, random Chinese citizens being killed in the streets, and a town of laws against foreigners.
- adventured 8y agoThat doesn't match up with the facts on illegal immigration figures at the borders. There have been over a million apprehensions by CBP at the borders in the last three years of people who are not in the US legally. Those are just the apprehensions, a huge number beyond that are not caught. The best estimate is that several hundred thousand people are crossing the southern US border illegally per year and not being caught.
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- civilitty 8y agoMore than half of all illegal immigrants overstay Visas (and arrive by airplane). Annual apprehensions at the border are down by like 80% since the mid-2000s - and not for lack of trying.
- metalliqaz 8y agoThat screed has so many internal contradictions it made my eyes cross.
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- xenihn 8y ago* Unless you have lots of money and plan to spend/invest it in the US
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoThe "and" is critical in that statement.
- ad_hominem 8y agoI mean we did have 3,000 people die from airplanes being hijacked and flown into buildings - the TSA didn't exist before then. Unfortunately our gov't is like an overreacting immune system inflaming the entire body and causing unnecessary damage to functioning systems. edit: Also Canadians in here, let's not pretend like CBSA's shit doesn't stink
- idontpost 8y agoYou should try reading the link first. The TSA is not the issue under discussion. It's Customs and Border Patrol that's the issue.
- ad_hominem 8y agoYou should try reading the HN guidelines first that say not to accuse someone of not reading the article. Sometimes discussions can meander outside the original article's context.
- bparsons 8y agoCBSA uses the exact same security standards as TSA, but manages to make the airport security process much, much faster. I think it comes down to airport design and staffing resources.
- cylinder 8y agoIt's just Americans being really had at organisation, training, planning especially in government. They also hate government so underfund it so they hire bottom barrell people to be agents.
- wyclif 8y agoIt's not that foreigners aren't welcome. If that were true, we'd just ban foreigners and refuse to issue visas. It's a lot simpler and possibly more unpleasant to think about than that: we don't care about you. Foreign tourism isn't important to us. You don't pay the bills for all this bureaucracy, and he who pays the piper calls the tunes. You don't call the tunes, US taxpayers do.
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