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It sure would be nice if Democrats were as committed to doing good as Republicans are to doing evil.
Can you explain how managing legal immigration is evil? I’m sure Texas would be happy to bus them all to your house. I trust you have the resources to take care of them.
Are you proposing that the average citizen should have the capacity to house immigrants and refugees, equal to, or surpassing that of one of the largest states in the country?
No but I’m shocked by how many people want to just throw open the border doors. Have you seen the numbers flowing in? It’s only going to get worse as the world economy crumbles. The money used to support it comes from our taxes. Do we need infrastructure? To take care of our own disenfranchised and needy? Provide services to tax paying citizens? The states have limited resources as well. Unmanaged immigration is not good. Immigration laws exist for a reason. I should know, I went through the entire US immigration process legally myself and even sponsored an immigrant while providing support for them. Open borders are no bueno.
There's a lot to unpack here.
No, and neither have you.
It is a design choice - a Republican one - that we make legal immigration so difficult and time consuming that immigrants can't quickly get through the legal process and then pay for the process with their taxes. This argument lets the GOP design their own problem and then complain it isn't solved.
Straw man. No-one is arguing for unmanaged immigration; they are arguing for more immigration that is managed.
Yes, but you are talking like you don't know what that reason is, so I'll tell you. Per the Constitution, the number of House members a state gets depends on its human population, regardless of status. That means immigrants of all sorts, even illegal ones, count for it while standing in the state. The GOP and DNC both assume that districts with high immigrant populations will vote for the DNC, so the DNC always fights for making immigration easier and the GOP always gights for making it easier. Immigration laws are about preserving political power, not protecting your tax dollars.
Then how is it you seem to labor under the misapprehension that legal immigration is implemented in a practically functional way? Its backlog is quite infamous.
You realize e have money for all of that yes? Some FEMA style camps to house folks safely until they are deported or processed is a nothing. A speck. A crumb.
The reason the roads are bad in your town, your locals are unhoused or needy is because of local mismanagement, and federal logjamming.
Lastly, we claim to be the best on the planet. Time to act like it
But that's the problem. Democrats aren't heroes. They're just regular politicians trying to climb the ladder and maybe do a good thing for people they care about personally. They stand in opposition to evil, sometimes, but that's not the same as actively trying to make things better for everyone. You could count on one hand the number of leaders we have actively working towards a better world, and most of them would be considered crackpots.
A lot of the democrats aren't even good politicians, they're just less corrupt than the GOP so they have to do.
They're literally only less corrupt enough (and not an ounce more) such that they don't get laughed at when they say you should vote for the lesser of two evils.