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I don’t agree with the border wall but the US needs to do something to stop the massive illegal immigration problem.
I know it is unpopular folks but its time.
1)The best argument against the death penalty is wrongful conviction.
1a) Incomplete evidence can lead to a wrongful conviction.
1b)White collar crime has the best paper trail and most solid evidence.
2)One murder can lead to the death penalty.
2a)corporations kill or let die hundreds and thousand of people die.
There for it is ethical to kill CEOs through lethal injection.
Totally reasonable approach. I don’t think that would fully stop it but it would certainly help
Agriculture in the US would literally collapse in a matter of weeks. Just like… make legal immigration easier.
Agricultural seasonal worker visas are a thing. It's even the one group of visas that has no limit on numbers other than what employers are willing to hire, and they're more protected than a lot of other workers.
It's just cheaper to skirt all that and hire those who have immigrated illegally.
The issue with the protections is that they’re tied to the visa, which can be rescinded by the owner of the farm at a whim. Which is to say, there aren’t any protections unless the owner of the farm decides to adhere to them.
Your second point is entirely true.
Like any work visa, it's tied to having the job. Unlike most work visas, it has additional requirements for the one hiring.
Of course it is. It's always going to be cheaper to hire someone at the cheapest price available than to also have to house and feed them on your dime in addition to pay.>>
Easiest fix is repairing the deeply broken immigration system so that legal immigration becomes a real possibility, like it used to be.
Yep, totally agree. That is part of the solution
Illegal immigration's main impact is monetary, so it costs the country money, but the reason why illegal immigration costs money is because people dodge systems when illegal.
It's a deep irony that the easier you make immigration, the less it costs the country.
The reasonable solution to the costs of illegal immigration isn't to reduce immigration but increase it. After all, immigrants benefit the economy more than natural born citizens do, as you don't have to invest in giving birth, raising and educating them and they pay fees to live here, and they start paying tax from day 1 as opposed to having the first ~16-21 years tax free.
What are the requirements one must meet to legally immigrate to the US? Which of those requirements need to be modified to make it easier?
Having gone through the process myself, many steps are completely opaque. You create a huge bundle of papers, pay a large amount of money on an irregular schedule and wait a long time, and they are lots of rules about what you can and can't do before, during and after.
I nearly got denied because I took a year long course of antidepressants that finished 6 years before my application when they read my medical history.
Awesome, congratulations in getting through the system, that is honestly a lot of things you mentioned.
More follow up questions if you have time:
how much money did you pay in total?
are there english language requirements?
are there American history tests one must pass?
how many years from start to finish did this process take?
was the paper work mostly submitted through the mail or was there a online system that could be used?
you mentioned rules about what you can/cannot do, what are some examples of ridiculous rules of things you cannot do before?
what would be the top three reasonable changes to the system that would make it easier for folks?
Thanks for the conversation!
the answer to all these questions is "it depends" - each that requires paragraphs of explanations depending on which of the several visas you apply for , which also have sub-sets of flavors of Visa
you've mistaken immigration for work authorization, and both with citizenship in some of these questions.
how much money? it was roughly $1000/month for several months but not all of this is payable to USCIS, and some is paid electronically and some by checks that don't clear for months, so the logistical challenges there are manifold
English language requirements: generally no if you have a translator
examples of rules: traveling, Healthcare regarding new medications, having to attend dates and times of meetings in both countries, engaging with political organizations
the top change is to create a new Visa that allows "illegal" immigrants to become legal
Dang, not the expected response to be honest
I thought the core issue was asylum seekers rather than illegal immigrants.
Do we? What's the actual issue with immigrants? They keep the economy going.
illegal immigrants*
Whatever you want to label them they aren't a major issue. We are all illegal immigrants unless you're native
It’s not my label, it is the country’s label. You live here (I suspect) so therefore this is your government’s label, not mine. You can argue about this all you want but it must be addressed.