My Thoughts on Immigration

[scotpens]

. . . He did it the legal way and it seems a shame that so many others flaunt the system when it makes it that much more difficult for legal immigrants like him.

Flout. Flout the system. If you brazenly and openly defy the law, you’re flouting the law. If you hold up a copy of the Constitution and wave it around in public, you’re flaunting the law.

 

[sidious618]

If you simply are looking for work or a change of scene, then you should follow proper procedure.

Why? If my family lived in a country filled with warring drug cartels, little employment and situations like what happened to today where a cartel locked a casino full of 40 people and set it aflame I'd say fuck the proper procedure I'm going to do what needs to be done.

It's not easy to cross the border illegally so there's no one who is doing it "simply for work or a change of scene." Instances like that don't happen. Juan isn't down in Mexico saying, "Shit, man, I gotta take a tour of the Pentagon, I think I'll head up across miles and miles of dangerous territory to go check that out and risk being killed.

Edit: Oh, and no discussion on illegal immigration is complete without this: link

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I think the U.S. & Canada should close its borders (temporarily) to immigration until we figure out how to employ those that are here legally.

We need to shake the tree and rattle loose those (citizens and immigrants) that that are looking for a free comfortable ride on welfare, disability, slip-and-fall settlements/lawsuits etc., have kids they can't afford for stupid reasons, and aren't prepared to re-train, take pay cuts, join the military, or take the lesser, unglamorous jobs cleaning toilets or doing landscaping, etc.

We need islands to deport these people to, where they're free to live any way they want and see how far their attitudes will take them. And see how long it'll be before they're taking their issues out on each other.

I'm not joking. There are a lot of people out there I'd love to see get their "entitled" butts kicked.

A job is a job in this economy. Be happy if - at this point - you still have one. Even if you're not getting that many hours. Don't grumble, just bite your tongue and power through the day as best you can. Things should eventually balance themselves out once those in authority figure out what's fair and, through due process, penalize the rest.

The only way we're going to sort out the messes, is a temporary closing of the borders to immigration until we get things back on track (more or less).

And what powers the federal authorities, states, counties, provinces, etc. have in re-claiming abandoned properties (warehouses, homes, etc.) in the sub-prime mortgage bubble-burst situation to get employable / tax-paying people on their feet with some of these abandoned properties via renting them (thus recovering lost revenue in low yields at first,) from the government.

We should turn back developers' urges to turn every free inch of space into condos and start building / re-opening existing RV Parks as there are going to be lots of people (ie: truck drivers) seeking work that might require sales and some travel on a commission-only basis and need to frequently change addresses/locations.

We should stop building huge multi-screen theaters as there's money to be made in drive-in's with people on the road as much as citizens/immigrants will be in the next few years, looking for seasonal or permanent (part-time/full-time) employment.

So, just to be clear:

- Militarize the border and block all immigration, legal and illegal.
- Round up undesirables like immigrants, the poor, the disabled, those having too many children, and people who won't join the glorious military forces of the Fatherland.
- Deport them to island "camps," where they'll be "concentrated" in one place to fight to survive.
- Eliminate collective bargaining and unions and tell workers to bite their tongues and produce for less pay, longer hours, and no benefits or job security.
- Have the government seize massive amounts of private property from citizens without compensation and then rent it out to others.
- Then bizarrely given the fascist tone of the rest of your points, reopen RV parks and open new drive-in theaters, because those are doing great.
- Profit.

Your views are like some weird hybrid of Hitler and Cousin Eddie.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

On the other hand, i'd pay good money to see a movie like that.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

On the other hand, i'd pay good money to see a movie like that.