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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
Last paragraph...."how best to manage immigration?" Actually, it is ILLEGAL immigration that I am opposed to. I see on TV huge line of ILLEGALS crossing our border into our country. Our country that I served in the military for. Those people have NOT served the US - our country. They are here to freeload on America's success. They bring diseases due to being un-vaccinated and we don't know their CRIMINAL RECORDS. There are unskilled men and women and they bring children that they expect America to educate. Basically, we don't either NEED or WANT them here. They just cause problems and then there is the add-on problem that some of them cause crime - over and above their INITIAL crime of transgressing our borders.
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So much to unload here. But ok, lets focus on the military aspect. There are people who imigrate to this country, and decide to serve in the military to gain citizenship, and when they finish serving, are still denied citizenship.
Deported Veterans, Stranded Far from Home after Years of Military Service, Press Biden to Bring Them Back - Government Executive
"But in 2017 a Trump administration policy restricted access to the expedited citizenship promised to veterans after 9/11. And, in general, immigrant veterans get very little guidance about how to complete the naturalization process from their military branches once they have served."
The rest of your comments are literal talking points, with little or no evidence to support. You see huge lines on TV (See fox news) that suddenly disappear after an election cycle is over.
Diseases. Really? Aside from the fact that Mexico and America being neighbors would at least share somewhat similar rates of vaccination for childhood diseases. Its interesting to note your concern over these so called diseases but if everyone in America would be vaccinated there wouldn't be an issue here would there? (See Measles).
America's success has literally been built on the backs of immigrants (Of which you and I are one likely descendants of unless you are native American).
This is just some examples of where I see problems in your thought process. There are more, but I am thinking that facts do not matter in this conversation. Its all about your perceived grievances.
I thank you for your service. As a fellow veteran, all I will say is as our benefits get cut (Yes this is a real possibility at this point) will you still be worried about what immigrants are doing or what this administration (See Bone Spurs) is doing to us?