You're saying it's rational for me to steal from my neighbor who makes more than me? Or rational for me to burn down forests because I want to make money? Maybe start squatting in a nice empty house because I don't want to pay my mortgage? Rational to do cocaine because things haven't gone my way in life? This is how losers justify bad decisions over and over again. The line was drawn a long time ago and we keep moving goal posts to suit personal narratives - who has the courage to actually see what's happening out there? I do.
Not what I said. I said that they were good for Texas economy. That wasn't surprising to me, but what was surprising was how beneficial to the economy they were, and how much the economy would take a hit if only 20% were deported. I didn't weigh in on if they should be welcomed with open arms. I thought the study was interesting.
No, but there needs to be a more efficient way for these guys to come over and work. The visa/greencard situation is a ****ing nightmare. And I don't care what people say about wages and such: no American will do most of the work that they do. It just will not happen. It would have taken me 10 years and 45K to get my hombre legalized...he said "I'm not going to be here that long." He retired back to San Felipe de Guanajuato a couple of years ago. I miss Zeferino. Hardest working, most straight up quality dude I've ever been around.
People have always tried to seek a better future. That’s nothing new to the human race. Causing harm to others, to self, or the environment is a separate independent decision. They aren’t the same thing.
Unfortunately, you don't understand the basic fundamentals of how a country works without descending into chaos. That would require intelligence. Throwing up your hands and saying maybe it'll work when something is already broken internally is a recipe for disaster - 100% of the time as history has shown. Why not spend your time working on ways to fix the internal issues first?
Voters don't want to improve a system, let alone one associated to a problem they want gone. Reforming immigration for the better means more immigrants without the official designation of being second class or illegal. Great in concept for both sides to propose answers, but ownership is too heavy a price for either parties. After we "fix immigration", we fix our tax system, then we fix those hospitals that give us painful shots or crazy expensive chemo. Explains the anarchistic nihilism infecting Republican leadership for the past decades....
Are you saying that undocumented immigration is causing this country to turn into chaos? Actually, the economy has done better with it. if that’s not what you are saying, I don’t know what you are talking about.
All these immigrants are / were great when the economy was booming .... That worm has turned. Lets see how good they are for us in an economic downturn.
