it's a very complicated problem that will require better enforcement on all fronts in order to solve. there is no serious effort being made to collect people who overstay their visas and no real consequences being dished out
If I were the sort of person who put way too much effort into jokes, I'd respond to this post with a supercut of Sargon Chuckles.
Yea we have a shitty fence that is easily crossed we need an actual wall not some shit tier fenceCalifornia (and most of Arizona and most of New Mexico) already has a physical wall.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/05/us/border-wall.html
It's Texas that doesn't have any physical barrier, because a lot of the unfenced area is horrifically hostile and dangerous xeric scrubland where dozens die every year.
Where most undocumented people enter is through the 25 official crossings along the border usually with work Visas that they eventually overstay with.
If I'm not mistaken California provides welfare services, Medicaid/Medicare, and subsidized higher education to illegal immigrants, all at taxpayer expense and presumably with little input from the illegals themselves (mostly in part due to their untaxed low wages and lack of any property to tax). Do you not think that unduly burdens the California budget?And I also object to your assertion that California is "devastated" in any way. Out of the more pressing issues facing the state (affordability, housing supply, homelessness, income inequality, water management etc.) undocumented immigration isn't one of the more pertinent issues right now since it's been on the decline for close to a decade now according to the 3 groups who research these things.
Reform the Visa system, provide a much more coherent path to citizenship program, and work on poverty reduction techniques such as investing in schools, infrastructure, and helping the kids of 1st generation immigrants acclimate to the United States.
yes, the old "these other problems are more pressing so this isn't a problem" has gotten pretty tiresome. illegal immigration is primarily a benefit for employers who want to save by suppressing wages and not really a benefit for anybody else. they take more than they provide
If you use Public Info to find not so public info the person doesn’t want known, that’s close enough.
People have criticized Sargon a lot. I hold off on a lot of the ones I've come to hold because I dont want this to become a place for e-partisans.
He's said he wants Kraut back in comments. People here were floating the idea Kraut would just be an attack dog for the liberalists. And there have been a few rumblings about how "the altright does it too so it was okay" which could provide justification. For the record the evidence is pretty bad. The main point was that Ruin's leaks had Kraut's address somewhere in them...but someone pointed out he lives in Germany and would have said his address in German (he was ordering food) so nobody but Kraut would have known this if it was never mentioned. It certainly never came up when the drama was unfolding, it seems to be retroactively a point of contention when it had no impact.
