from the people living here all the way up to the President, have ever suggested chopping off people’s heads.
I should hope not.
However, there is a large percentage of the population that drink many flavors of koolaid.
Do you doubt that these folks exist?
Those drunk on the power their illusionary worldview provides them?
These are the people warned against.
Walls may be the only way to control this prison planet.
Asking nicely hasn't worked, so far.
But, isnt the soulution to make the world hospitable to anyone living anywhere?
Better we manage things by improving the situation where the immigrants originate, imo.
My plan is to move there and employ my neighbors.
Our families have come over legally.
Can you understand how simply making that statement makes doublespeak of calling yourself free?
If you must ask permission, you are property of those to whom you kneel.
There is no such thing as govt, simply an organized, armed group of men and women that force perfect strangers to pay and obey.
I agree that “Better we manage things by improving the situation where the immigrants originate, imo. My plan is to move there and employ my neighbors.” I don’t mean that in a duplicitous or sarcastic way. These countries lack the ability to do what we have here without some assistance.
There is no way that uncontrollable immigration will solve their problems.
Presumably, many of these immigrants are risking their lives to come to the U. S. for a better life. Otherwise, why bother.
Along with a better life, comes a new way of living, a new way of thinking, assimilation to the culture that makes this country desirable.
If, on the other hand, they come here and contribute the culture of corruption and dysfunction that made their home a place to flee, then they are no better off than if they had stayed home.
We can assimilate small chunks of people into our way of life so that they and we can prosper together.
However, if they come in too large quantities, it is more likely we will become like them.
You seem to think Mexicans are wonderful people. They can be. I have lived in the U.S. and in Mexico. I am of Mexican heritage. There are many great things about the culture. However, if you take off your rose-colored glasses, you will also see the dark side of the culture. Corruption and bribery are common and accepted. Mexicans think these are bad, however, bribery and corruption are always an option because “that’s how things are done”.
It’s not just Mexicans. They are just an example. People fleeing a country bring with them psychological and cultural dysfunctions that made their country an undesirable place to live. These things take time to unlearn. You can’t just dump millions of them in a new country and expect that they will automatically know how to succeed. Many of us Mexican-Americans still live in poverty and struggle to live up to the American dream. It isn’t as simple as simply changing your address.
This is why I agree that well-intentioned people like yourself move to those countries and teach the people there what habits and ways of thinking can transform their own countries into a place where people are happy to stay or foreigners want to emigrate. Make it hospitable to live there so that they do not have to suffer the journey and separation from their loved ones. Help them elevate themselves at home rather than encouraging them to move here to live like second-class citizens. It is evil to encourage people to break the law and live in this country like slave labor. I think you have a good heart. However, your ideas are inconsiderate of the suffering they will endure and the cost to society to convert them, not even them, convert their grandchildren into functioning Americans.
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I've paid transito bribes.
I tried to negotiate them down, they could see i didn't have much, some did lower their price.
None of them took me to jail for no license, insurance, junky rv, or pulling two carnival rides in tandem.
Try that north of the border and see how far you get before you are putting your shoelaces back into your shoes and walking home.
They play the same game down there that we play up here, except with less money and with a population that knows all of the armed gangs are enemies of the gente.
Viva, Magon!
That said, I've also lived in Acapulco and read the newspapers.
The vecinos said, 'Meh, they were bad people.'
So, yes, once you have a bad rep there are likely to be problems.
Thereby increasing the numbers of criminals moving north.
I agree, we have to free ourselves before we can free others.
Are we free when everything we do only increases the resources of our oppressors?
Once we are free, the world will truly become one big, blue, marble, imo.