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Immigration issues of any scale do not justify violating citizen's rights, though. Side effects matter and the risks are tremendous. 52% enough or not - that's
by drdaeman 1y ago
Immigration issues of any scale do not justify violating citizen's rights, though. Side effects matter and the risks are tremendous. 52% enough or not - that's what already happened in the past and no one can change the past. There's only the present, that needs to be carefully driven towards a desirable future, with conscious and significant effort to avoid undesirable ones. History is full of stories about how easy it is to fuck up.
It possibly would be very different if federal administration would openly recognize the potential issues and put at least a sliver of effort in showing how it deals with those. I can understand their statement that the scale of the problem requires action of comparable scale - that is logical. However, careless actions become incredibly dangerous at scale, and I have yet to see a sliver of understanding of this, for all I'm seeing so far is arrogant stubborn self-confidence that is very hard to distinguish from malicious intent. And I'm putting a lot of effort here with my suspension of disbelief for the sake of civilized discussion.
Those hotheads are supposed to be a conservative government. They don't act like one at all.
- almosthere 1y ago[flagged]
- jonway 1y agoThis totally incoherent my dude. People shipping contraband don’t normally hang around at the destination, they go back when they’re done. And if someone did, like, overstay a visa used to traffic narcotics or something and “must go”, you’re just cutting their expenses for the next trip.
- almosthere 1y agoTons of gangs have established long term distribution systems. Just because CNN didn't tell you that, doesn't mean it's not true.
- jonway 1y agoSo you’re asking us to let criminals free? Just stop and think for a sec.
- drdaeman 1y agoI get to think and say whatever I want as long as my First Amendment rights still exist. You get the right to disagree and think and say whatever you want. I sincerely hope it's how things will remain, and so will all our other Constitutional rights. Because I witnessed first-hand what could happens when the Constitution becomes a piece of paper, and I hope that no one would ever have to experience that. But more than this, I'm curious what logical connection have made you bring fentanyl into the discussion about purported government surveillance of illegal migrants and possible side effects of this on US citizens and legal permanent residents. Seriously, why have you even thought of it?
- queenkjuul 1y agoSome of that fentanyl came from the US, you know that right?