This is apropos of nothing in the events of the last week, but it occurred to me yesterday, so I thought I'd share it.
The general case for allowing mass migration is that if you do not allow any given family of refugees into your country, you are heartless and probably full of hate.
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| How could you turn them away? |
That's pretty hard to refute. At the San Diego airport, when the invasion was in full swing, almost all of the illegals you saw flying to destinations across the US were single, military-age males, but there were a few families like the one pictured above. You couldn't help but feel compassion for them. Still, can you take all such families?
Where do you draw the line? Taking an estimate at random, during the Biden-Harris years, we had 12,000,000 illegals come across the border. Many of our cities, the sanctuary ones in particular, are now having to cut services to citizens so they can care for the illegals. Some of our smaller towns who were targeted by the administration for total demographic change have been completely overwhelmed.
Meanwhile, the population of Haiti is 11.7M. Honduras' is 10.6M. Venezuela's is 28.8M. Nigeria's is 223.8M. It's a good bet that most or all of those populations would like to come here. Can you take all 275,000,000 of them? No? Where do you draw the line? Pick a number.
No matter what number you choose, there will be a family just like the one above left out in the cold, living in poverty. No matter how many you bring into the country, you can be accused of anti-immigrant hate and racism because that you don't care enough to allow that family into the US.
This is how you get to infinity, by the way. One more. Always one more.
It is the act of drawing the line that is hateful. Any limit at all is racist.
Now imagine that you don't pick a number at all. You say that we must accept anyone if they want to enter the country, yea, even unto 275,000,000 of them.
You only say that because you're full of anti-Muslim hate. Why didn't you include the 23.3M of Syria and the 240.5M of Pakistan? It's because you hate them, don't you? How can you be so cold and heartless?
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I have to stop here. It makes me sick to even have to communicate with hate-filled racists like you. You're the reason Trump won.
And get your butt off the plane, train, bus, etc., so the (you name it) can ride.
ReplyDeleteOh, and btw... no 'new immigration laws, etc' until existing ones are ENFORCED. Prove you are up to enforcing existing law... then we can (if need be) talk about new laws.
ReplyDeleteTim, I'm on the border. You just can't imagine how bad it is. Is it 6M, 12M, more? What difference does it make? The number is irrelevant to the thesis of the blog post.
ReplyDeleteOK, I'll bite. If it is so bad where you are, why don't you act like it? Why are your posts about illegal immigration almost entirely about things that are happening thousands of miles away from you, often in completely different countries, rather than on what you can see with your own eyes right where you are?
ReplyDeleteJudging from what you post, you make it look like everything in San Diego is basically OK, and so you are reduced to ranting about the often out-of context and uncheckable things that you stumble across from around the world during your morning rage-scroll. If there is plenty of stuff to be concerned about right where you are, why not talk about that instead of getting all in a lather about what is happening in Springfield, or England, or France?
Look, you have the potential to be something other than a conduit for miscellaneous propaganda from people that you don't actually know, whose accuracy you can't check, and who are in any case so far away from you that what happens where they are cannot possibly have any direct effect on you. You could look at what is actually going on in San Diego in some depth. Who are the people immigrating? Where did they come from? What ultimately happens to them? Are they committing crimes? If so, where and what kind? Are they causing unemployment? Then who is hiring them? Do they stay, or do they ultimately go home? What are they costing us by being here? And for the sake of fairness, do we get any benefits from them being here?
There is all sorts of local information about the immigrant situation in San Diego that nobody else is providing, that you are in an ideal position to find out. And if you did so, it would be a real service to everybody. This is something that has long been ticking me off about what the Internet in general (and Social Media in particular) has become - almost everybody is just passing around the same junk that they got from someone else, and only a tiny fraction actually originate anything new and of value. In my own small way, I've tried to make sure that my blog is at least something that originates with me and not just cruft that I'm passing along. I think it would be nice if you resolved to do something similar.