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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1047654)	1/10/2018 9:59:28 PM
From: TopCat	1 Recommendation Recommended By Broken_Clock Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Believing in it is in a sense acting on it.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1047654)	1/11/2018 8:12:55 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

yes, I agree with you on that. Thinking something is not a violation of the law....yet. I'm sure with the advance of technology, we'll have a preventative crime unit that implements thought control, but thankfully, we're not their yet. :) The truth is I'm not exactly aligned with the GOP on immigration. There are some areas, as with the Muslims, that I am more aligned than not. I do think we need extreme vetting of Muslims from the Middle Eastern countries, but not all Muslims are bad people. If we were smarter and less politically correct, we'd use statistical profiling to weed out the vast majority of the bad ones, just like the Israelis do. Having said that, I do not agree with Trump's position on immigration from Mexico and South America. He's demonstrating an amazing amount of bias and short sightedness there. I agree that we need to secure our borders. All sovereign nations must do that and it's just common sense. We can't afford to have a bunch of people come here and suck the resources out of our system without paying back in through taxes. If it were me though, I don't think I'd build a wall. I used to think that was a good idea, but after deeper thought, I think walls are old technology. We may need an actual wall in certain places, but I think we can use advanced technology, including cameras, satellites, drones, motion detectors, etc. to monitor, track, and repel illegals from crossing the border or capture them shortly after. In addition, I'd come down like a ton of bricks on the US based companies who hire them. I'd make it so expensive to hire an illegal that it simply wouldn't be worth it economically for those countries. Then we could have a 3 strikes rule that makes jail time for executives of companies who hire illegals mandatory, if they get convicted and fined for 3 violations. That might be cheaper than building a wall as a preventative measure. Dry up the employment prospects. So those are all the punitive things. However, here's where I depart quite a bit from the GOP. I believe in sticks and carrots. I would eliminate the cap on H1-B visas for science and tech workers. In addition, I'd push for a law that allows anyone who graduates from an accredited US university with a Masters or Phd or other advanced post-bacc degree to get a fast path to a green card. Then I'd also create a fast path day worker program for Mexicans and Latin Americans, where we'd register them in a central database with all their biometrics, track their status, including taxes paid, crimes committed, and employment. And we'd give them fast track paths to get green cards as well. We need immigration. We need the kind of immigration that is bottoms up as well as tops down. Latin Americans are mostly peaceful and hard working, which is exactly the opposite of the way Trump markets them to the American public. He's dead wrong on what he's doing. He's vilifying people who are good people and are culturally aligned with the US. They are Catholics, hard working, and peaceful. Everyone one of them I've met love the US and want to succeed in the US and adopt our culture. They are not like the Middle Eastern Muslims who don't share our religion, don't share our values, refuse to assimilate, and want to change our culture into their own. So Trump is right on Muslims, but dead wrong on Latin Americans. The single biggest mistake we are making in the US on immigration is to turn Latin America into an enemy. They should be our best friends and we could make tons of money together. Instead, we're handing it over to China without a shot fired. It's too bad propaganda works so well. Trump trots out the one nice family who had a family member murdered by an MS-13 gang member and then pretends that all Latin American immigrants are potential MS-13 gang members, so he can push his anti-immigration message. Then the liberals do the same thing on health care. They pull out the blond haired, blue eyed little boy with some ailment and lacking health insurance, so they can pull on our heart strings and push their socialist agenda. And the American people eat it all up. Too bad we don't have more educated and less pliable people who can think for themselves. These two parties are caustic and extreme. How stupid we are. How stupid and uninformed Trump is on this immigration issue. It's sad, really.