I don’t know what ‘they’ refers to here. (But whatever it is, I suspect your claim about ‘noticeably hindering its rate’ relies on data existing only in your imagination.)[/quote]
Already pointed out drug muling through illegals is a major way drugs enter the country. Your response of they’ll just use other methods is also without data.
I have data that walls prevent illegal immigration and know illegal immigrants are a major vehicle of drug smuggling. If that’s not good enough for you that’s your issue. But it is evidence.
The wall is to be paid by Mexico making it cost effective.
You mixing up issue of accepting refugees with a blanket travel ban that includes green card holders.
You don’t want to accept refugees? Fine. But this? C’mon, there’s is no fucking way to justify harassing PhD students and the ominous questions that remind me of - try to guess - Putin’s Russia:
Niaz, who lives in Rochester, New York, returned to the US from Canada on Saturday after visiting friends in Toronto. “I was asked to fill a form [at the airport] giving all the information about myself, my family, occupation and surprisingly giving away the password to my personal phone as well as the make and model of my phone,” she told the Guardian.
Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), whose organisation has followed many such cases, said on Twitter: “I want to repeat: Green card holders were handcuffed, their social media was reviewed, and they were asked their views on Trump.”
Unfortunately, the CEO of Twitter, Omid Kordestani renounced his Iranian citizenship - it would be so ironic if he wasn’t allowed to re-enter the US - the CEO of the media platform that basically got Trump elected.
Well we finally agree on something - no countries is required to accept refugees.
I do not think the US is required to accept non-citizens into their country with or without a good reason.
However, I do agree with you that exceptions should be made and the one you gave an example of is a good illustration of where the exceptions should be made.
Ok, I didn’t know that. That’s interesting, that’s fucking interesting man. (I’ll take any chance to slip in a lebowski quote).
I’m sure we could argue about what America is all about, but I say that thinking about how we are basically a conglomerate of other nationalities (of course this is becoming the case more and more around the rest of the world as time goes on).
I think its funny how theres a standart reaction these days of mass protests. Like to fuck with all the 99%ers, BLMs etc. trump just does shit through out his presidency to troll those losers as a distraction while he makes other more serious moves. Thats a thought right there.
“The Geneva refugee convention requires the international community to take in war refugees on humanitarian grounds. All signatory states are obligated to do. The German government explained this policy in their call yesterday,” the chancellor’s spokesman, Steffen Seiberg, said in a statement.
Yes, Chancellor Merkel had to explain this fundamental international treaty to Trump.
The controversy regarding last year’s migrant wave in Europe comes from the fact that the vast majority of them are economic migrants, that they’ve crossed several safe countries and that they’re trying to choose their destination country in which to apply for asylum (Germany and Sweden mostly).
Merkel’s policy of come-everyone-you’ll-get-asylum caused that shitstorm, but that doesn’t alter the relationship of signatories of the Geneva convention towards actual refugees fleeing war.
The US imports nearly $10B worth of produce from Mexico per year. I have a hard time believing there are too many other sources that can compete on price. Trump wins, Americans lose.
