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Would you support deporting people who are criminals? Or have no intention of ever working and just want to live off various welfare programs? Trying to find so
by cheese4242 9mo ago
Would you support deporting people who are criminals? Or have no intention of ever working and just want to live off various welfare programs? Trying to find some common ground here.
- idle_zealot 9mo agoNope. Access to food, water, shelter, and freedom of movement are fundamental human rights. I'm not a proponent of executing useless eaters. If you commit a crime with a prison sentence then you serve that sentence where you committed the crime.
- cheese4242 9mo agoThanks for taking the time to clarify your position. So if China or some other country decided to send 10 million people here for whatever reason, you think our official policy should be to welcome then in and provide them food, shelter, etc...? What about 100 million people? Should they also be given citizenship and right to vote in addition to food/shelter?
- idle_zealot 9mo agoThe only issue would be logistics. Getting supporting infrastructure and housing set up. But yeah, ultimately. More hands, more consumers. Why wouldn't we want as many citizens as possible, we certainly have the land for it.
- cheese4242 9mo agoI wonder in such a case if more populous countries like India or China could in theory send over 100 million+ people to our country over the course of a decade, and then once those people are citizens, legally vote for the US to be annexed by China, etc.. You could conquer a country without a single shot fired.
- idle_zealot 9mo agoYeah, sure, if Chinese people were ants in a hivemind that strategy might work.
- nozzlegear 9mo agoPutting aside the blatant unconstitutionality of the question, how often does "should the US be legally annexed by China" come up on the ballot?
- innagadadavida 9mo agoAnother hypothetical is what if those 100 million turn out to be right wing radicals.