Lol word on Tariq. Glad we agree on legal immigration as well.
I feel like a broken record on the issue but I don't think Americans are generally ready to have a serious conversation around illegal immigration.
For one thing the "crisis" we're discussing is total bullshit... there is no crisis and the number of illegal crossings
have been going down 15 years. Almost every element of the fantasy GOT style wall under discussion is contradicted by reality at every step. There are more modern and technologically savvy ways to improve security further and every pitch for the wall ignores the obvious problems a project at this scale entails. The Cato Institute with whom I disagree on many things actually
had a great write up on this a little while back.
Illegal immigrants tend to make a pretty easy target, especially given that most people are law abiding and reasonably expect others to be as well. But this conversation never includes a frank look at the economic reality which lays the groundwork for illegal immigration in the first place (specifically of the Mexican and Central American variety)
No one is willing to work these jobs that illegals do (as was borne out in GA and AL when these States cracked down on employers). Moreover,
we're unwilling to confront our own part in this mess as consumers who demand a race-to-the-bottom that drives the economic calculus that corporations cynically engage in at the behest of their shareholders. Most of the outrage around the issue feels dishonest and vacuous. Just another way fir filks to absilce themselves of all responsibility for our shared situation while laying all ills of society at the feet of a nearly myrhically awful group of "others". There is an obvios racial and nativist appeal to these kind of anti illegal arguments as well.
Until folks are willing to have more nuanced convos I'm comfortable ignoring the current level of discussion as a bunch of white noise tbh.