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Ok, so let’s deport everyone who came in through said unprotected open borders. That’s literally why borders exist. To keep foreign threats… foreign.
by vGPU 3y ago
Ok, so let’s deport everyone who came in through said unprotected open borders. That’s literally why borders exist. To keep foreign threats… foreign.
- daveguy 3y agoWeird how the most prominent example of terrorism on American soil from foreign agents was perpetrated with completely legal non-land-border penetration. Seems like we have locals lot more dangerous than anyone coming through the land border with Mexico to work or seek asylum in the US. Actual foreign terrorists just aren't as ignorant as you want them to be.
- seanw444 3y agoOkay so your solution is: open borders and heavier government surveillance to balance it? Fantastic.
- daveguy 3y agoI think you missed the point.
- Levitz 3y agoSo what? Sorry but this is not even a bad argument, it's just not an argument at all. Most shootings are not in schools, so school shootings aren't a problem? Most drug addictions come from prescribed drugs, so heroin and fentanyl being sold on the street is fine?
- zdragnar 3y agoIn 2023, more than 160 people on the terror watch list have been caught illegally crossing US borders: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/number-people-terror-watchlist-stopped-mexico-us-border-risen-rcna105095 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/number-pe... Given that there are 600,000 who were observed entering but got away in 2023 alone, and more were likely crossing unobserved, there's very good odds that they are already here.
- daveguy 3y agoAnd yet we still only have the handful of incidents from foreigners, most of which come over legally anyway. Right wingers have been fearmingering about foreigners for decades. Are they just using illegal entry now when they didn't before and waiting a really long time? You do know domestic terrorism is just as common as foreign terrorism in the US, right?
- electrondood 3y agoExactly, this "open borders" nonsense is a right-wing talking point, like "fiscal responsibility." It sounds great in TV interviews and speeches, but they mysteriously only trot out when there's a democrat in the Oval Office.
- ejb999 3y agois that why the republican mayor of NYC is loudly sounding the alarm on this? my mistake, he is a democrat.
- vGPU 3y agoSo… close the borders. Completely.