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They do, but the politics of this means that if you try to temporarily defund customs then you're under the label of "X wants to defund our border patrol and le
by devwastaken 6y ago
They do, but the politics of this means that if you try to temporarily defund customs then you're under the label of "X wants to defund our border patrol and let in anyone!"
- tehjoker 6y agoWe should want to let everyone in. Everyone is drinking hyper-nationalist koolaid.
- popinman322 6y agoIt's a bit more nuanced than that. While we probably should improve/expand asylum infrastructure, and similar programs, we can't just open the borders. We have a lot of social programs that are already strained (mostly by legislation designed to hobble them) by our current population; until those are sorted out we don't have a strong enough foundation for faster/more immigration.
- predictmktegirl 6y agoI disagree. Let's move fast and break things. Status quo is not going to improve our welfare in either the literal or policy sense. Economically speaking, immigration is the most profitable policy decision a government can make.
- clusterfish 6y agoExtremism is very rarely a solution to unsatisfactory status quo. Being an extremist, you are vastly more likely to unite the country against yourself and roll back any progress on your cause than you are to advance it.
- popinman322 6y agoBreaking things in this context would put peoples' lives at risk. There are already millions of newly unemployed citizens in the US. If the system is strained too far those who are already at risk could lose access to shelter, food, and clean water. Not to mention anyone who's unemployed likely doesn't have good access to healthcare right now.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoSo fix the programs that provide those things. I’m a hard libertarian on this issue. The government should not be telling us where we can travel or live. We wouldn’t accept it from our government and nobody should accept it from other governments either.
- NeutronStar 6y agoYes! Let's allow 100M immigrants to come over! Fear nothing folks! /s
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoThings are already broken man. If they get much more broken there's going to be riots in the places rich white people live. Now that I think about your idea more, I agree. Destroy the entire social safety net, bring in 20-50 million refugees and hope America survives the civil war.
- part1of2 6y agoI’m going to assume you’re being sarcastic because there is zero evidence that’s a good idea
- OminousWeapons 6y agoWhen you have finite resources and an economy that is not driven by unskilled labor you cannot have unlimited immigration unless your stance is that new migrants will be ineligible for public assistance. You risk bankrupting social programs otherwise. Mass migration also hinders assimilation. When you have a steady stream of migrants, those migrants can integrate into the local culture. When you have a massive burst as you would if you suddenly deregulated immigration, those individuals have enough non-native support as to never come under pressure to assimilate. This is not a good thing and is precisely what leads to massive nationalist backlash. All that being said, I do support generally increasing quotas while also largely uncapping skilled immigration.
- part1of2 6y agoCan you name a country that doesn’t have borders, customs, and immigration policies (besides maybe Somalia)? The Schengen zone still has it too
- tehjoker 6y agoI think people should be able to pass freely but economic goods should be legislated.
- gumby 6y agoWell of course, but they are already being oppositional by refusing to obey a lawful request. So this kind of response should be expected and not feared.
- part1of2 6y agoI think OP means they can defund the director’s salary