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Originally Posted by dirk digler
Rob I will explain a little better but my positions are all National Security related and IMO that trumps most everything else.
1. Building a high tech fence and the US Military guarding the border will instantly stop 98% of illegal crossings and drug trafficking IMO. We need to stop the real problem which is the illegal crossings. IMO this should be the first priority because without it then the problem will always exist.
2. I believe we should stop all legal immigration because we can't handle the load we have now and we have no idea who is in this country or not. Until we have a better grasp shut down any immigration.
3. Basically what I am saying here is not actively have a policy to pursue and round up illegal immigrants unless they are wanted for crimes committed in the US. What I don't want and which is impossible is to go round up 12 million illegals and deport them. IMO that would wreck the economy. But at the same time if INS or police come across illegals then they need to deport them. IMO punishing small businesses is not the answer.
4. I agree with you and I am not totally sold on it but it could be a start.
5. This one really pisses me off. Not only do you and I and the rest of the country have to support dead beat losers who can't get a job but now we have to support Non-****ing Americans with my tax dollars. **** that shit. These illegals get better medical care than most Americans do and that is not right. Also from what I understand in CA if an illegal wants to go to college they can and don't have to pay out of state tuition but if I wanted to send my kid to college in CA then I would. Have ****ing messed up is that?
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Thanks for taking the time to respond, dirk. I certainly understand the national security concerns, and agree that tightening border control should be a priority. I'm just not convinced that a fence is the answer: very expensive to build, maintain, and guard--and will it even really work? I guess I could see shutting down the borders briefly, in exteme circumstances, but I'm not sure we are there yet. Deporting illegals without addressing the reason they come here seems pointless to me. As I've said, national ID would be fine with me; I just think we are still a ways off on getting that one passed. Sadly, it'll probably take another 9/11 or something similar to wake people up. Your last point is the one I probably agree most strongly about. For the life of me, I don't understand how we can administer programs or services to people we know to be here illegally.
That makes no sense. If we are gonna do that, then some sort of earned amnesty and eventual citizenship should be arranged for those people; otherwise, I think we should deport them.