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Originally Posted by Jazuela
Stop moving the goalposts. This isn't about "controlled vs. uncontrolled" immigration. It's about "badly controlled vs. better controlled" immigration. Immigration is controlled in this country. But OBVIOUSLY the system isn't working, or we wouldn't have the issues we see today. The current incarnation of "controlled immigration" is BROKEN. It needs to be fixed. That doesn't mean removing controls. It means getting rid of what doesn't work, and replacing it with what does work. Or adding to something that is inadequate, but would be of superior and efficient quality if something was added to it. Make what we have better. More for its own sake is not equal to better.
More wall doesn't equal superior control. Kicking them ALL out doesn't equal superior control. Forbidding them from ALL entering doesn't equal superior control. Taking what one small faction of people think, based on something they know nothing about and have no personal experience of, and implementing laws based on that little tidbit of non-information and faulty data, does not equal superior control.
What DOES equal superior control, is implementing modern technological advances to border control facilities. It is adding more staff to the border patrol. It is adding more gates to the border patrol. It is repairing any gates, fencing, walls, or other barriers, that are in need of repair. It is providing more efficient and humane methodology to the asylum and refugee programs already in place. It is adding multitudes of trained immigrations professionals, who can help get some of these folks, who have been here 20 years and have been TRYING to legally gain citizenship even before their visas expired.
There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are "in process" in this country, who have been "in process" for over a decade. There is no excuse for that. They should have either been moved along the path to citizenship, or returned to their countries of origin by now.
End the logjam.
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I have yet to move the goalposts, they are still controlled and uncontrolled immigration. Perhaps the posting in response that referred to immigration not being black and white controlled versus uncontrolled, that there are other types of immigration is the goal posts moving?
There is no dispute that the system is broken, and that repairs, personnel, and technology are needed. However, more wall is needed as part of the infrastructure upgrades. The first step, IMHO does need to be a change in our laws. Perhaps if we spent less time and resources on immigrants taking advantage of the holes in our laws, the people who are trying to “do it right” can be addressed in a timely fashion.