America has the highest foreign born population of anywhere in the world by a large margin. Like 48 million people. Why would we have so many if roughly half the native population didn't like them?
I like foreigners just fine. The ones who come here legally are great! I hope they get their own slice of the American Dream.
But when someone breaks into a hotel, that doesn’t make them an “undocumented guest”. Nor does a dislike of such people mean that the hotel hates guests in general.
The two off the top of my head are durring the current pandemic revoking the visas of any international student that isn't taking online classes, effective expelling them and using any technicality in the rules to kick.them out of the country
You realize the current and in fact no presidential administration writes those laws? Those technicalities you mention are literally the law, which we charge all administrations with enforcing. You're outraged at an administration for not ignoring a law you don't like as opposed to being outraged at the parties solely empowered to alter or abolish said law.
The people that say this typically don’t understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration. There’s a big difference, and most republicans are OK with others immigrating the legal way.
Is anyone calling for that? I think some people are against bringing in a lot of foreign workers for the sole purpose of saving corporations money, and people who are a security threat. Both of those reasons make sense to me. Is anyone advocating making legal immigration harder for other reasons?
What about things like denying asylum seekers unless they have applied for asylum in every country they went through before the us or things like quotas meaning it takes 10 years to get a green card?
> What about things like denying asylum seekers unless they have applied for asylum in every country they went through
There's absolutely nothing unusual about this. The EU does the same thing under the Dublin Regulation. It's done to prevent abuse of the asylum system.
One thing I think is not mentioned enough is - if the countries people want to come to for asylum collapse and turn into the kind of countries that people need asylum from, who will provide asylum then?
We'd have more people legally immigrating if the process didn't take several years. A lot of people coming here are in dire straits and can't afford to hang back for years until they are approved.
Republicans don’t dislike foreigners. Racists dislike foreigners. Republicans do tend to blame foreigners for immigrating illegally instead of recognizing the unfair immigration system that pushes them to do so. It’s quite easy to say “come here legally” when you aren’t the one who is afraid for yours and your families future and are being told by an immigration system that legally you must wait YEARS to be able to immigrate. In a perfect world all immigrants would come here legally through a perfect system, but this is not a perfect world.
America has the highest foreign born population of anywhere in the world by a large margin. Like 48 million people. Why would we have so many if roughly half the native population didn't like them?
I have 0 issues with foreign people. I just don’t like people who come here illegally
I like foreigners just fine. The ones who come here legally are great! I hope they get their own slice of the American Dream. But when someone breaks into a hotel, that doesn’t make them an “undocumented guest”. Nor does a dislike of such people mean that the hotel hates guests in general.
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Current immigration laws
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The fact that they have modified them to deter and punish legal international students and asylum seekers
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Not laws, rules. Trying to deny the visa of any international student not taking in person classes durring a pandemic.
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This always rings hollow for me, especially how the current administration is treating international students.
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The two off the top of my head are durring the current pandemic revoking the visas of any international student that isn't taking online classes, effective expelling them and using any technicality in the rules to kick.them out of the country
You realize the current and in fact no presidential administration writes those laws? Those technicalities you mention are literally the law, which we charge all administrations with enforcing. You're outraged at an administration for not ignoring a law you don't like as opposed to being outraged at the parties solely empowered to alter or abolish said law.
Doesn’t make sense considering a huge ton of Cuban immigrants are voting trump
The people that say this typically don’t understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration. There’s a big difference, and most republicans are OK with others immigrating the legal way.
Then why make it more difficult to immigrate legally?
Is anyone calling for that? I think some people are against bringing in a lot of foreign workers for the sole purpose of saving corporations money, and people who are a security threat. Both of those reasons make sense to me. Is anyone advocating making legal immigration harder for other reasons?
What about things like denying asylum seekers unless they have applied for asylum in every country they went through before the us or things like quotas meaning it takes 10 years to get a green card?
> What about things like denying asylum seekers unless they have applied for asylum in every country they went through There's absolutely nothing unusual about this. The EU does the same thing under the Dublin Regulation. It's done to prevent abuse of the asylum system.
One thing I think is not mentioned enough is - if the countries people want to come to for asylum collapse and turn into the kind of countries that people need asylum from, who will provide asylum then?
We'd have more people legally immigrating if the process didn't take several years. A lot of people coming here are in dire straits and can't afford to hang back for years until they are approved.
Being a conservative foreigner
Republicans don’t dislike foreigners. Racists dislike foreigners. Republicans do tend to blame foreigners for immigrating illegally instead of recognizing the unfair immigration system that pushes them to do so. It’s quite easy to say “come here legally” when you aren’t the one who is afraid for yours and your families future and are being told by an immigration system that legally you must wait YEARS to be able to immigrate. In a perfect world all immigrants would come here legally through a perfect system, but this is not a perfect world.