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Can the U.S. accept any amount of any culture successfully?

"Unlimited amount of immigrants" is not a real scenario. If you want to actually discuss real issues, it works best if you stick to the facts rather than exaggerated rhetoric.

Well, looks like you're abandoning the culture issue and switching to a new one. Why don't you tell the Liberals out there who can't come in. And if you believe the average Liberal doesn't want unlimited immigration, just turn on the news and it will slowly start to dawn on you why I would post such a thread.
 
Your last sentence is helplessly loaded because of course nobody can say our welfare system can tolerate infinite ("unlimited") immigrants. Black holes may be the only system/entity that can absorb an unlimited amount of anything, and even that isn't fully settled.





Could we "accept 100,000 or more radical Muslims at once who disagree with our Constitution and/or culture without any major issues?"


Well, what's "radical"? Is "radical" willing to abide by our laws while despising them? Is "radical" a person who ignores our laws? If so, is it someone able to hide that flaunting of the law from the authorities?

You don't ask a readily answerable question. I would point to the fact that America survives despite the fact that Americans kill around 14,000 other Americans every year and commit around 1,400,000 violent crimes against Americans in the same span. Clearly, we can absorb quite a bit of damage without failing. So if your question is existential as it sounds but I ignore the hyperbole of "unlimited", the answer is: yes. But that's also not the important question.

The important question is precisely how much assimilation do/ought we demand and at what rate? We are a nation of immigrants, yes, but we've also historically been terrible to our immigrants. They made it, yes, but only after being put through their paces and then some. (ie, see treatment of Irish immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century).







It bears pointing out that there is nothing approaching a serious movement in favor of "unlimited" immigration; that this is just absurd hyperbole used by some on the right to criticize "the Left" for the opposition of some on the left to things like the muslim ban that isn't a muslim ban, but is a terrorist ban, except that it is aimed at countries from which terrorists who have attacked America have not come, and so forth.

There are a few people who really want open borders in the literal sense, but they aren't all that many. The rest want a sensible immigration policy.

Ok, we can't accept unlimited immigrants, who do you want to leave out?
 
That's understandable. The question is, why invite more problems?

The only immigrants I would "invite" are those who buy into capitalism and our version of liberal democracy, human rights and equality. No one else need apply.
 
Well, looks like you're abandoning the culture issue and switching to a new one. Why don't you tell the Liberals out there who can't come in. And if you believe the average Liberal doesn't want unlimited immigration, just turn on the news and it will slowly start to dawn on you why I would post such a thread.
I don't care what the stupid people you label "liberal" might want, it still isn't a realistic scenario. Political extremists like your "liberals" and yourself and thankfully in the minority. You just all make more noise than normal people.
 
There are those too

And I don't object to them within reason

But many more are illegal, poor and uneducated

Or they are simply related to the more desirable immigrant

A mother or uncle

They can get green cards thanks to the family unification loophole in the 1965 immigration law

OK point taken but they are hardly anywhere near the majority
 
I don't care what the stupid people you label "liberal" might want, it still isn't a realistic scenario. Political extremists like your "liberals" and yourself and thankfully in the minority. You just all make more noise than normal people.

It's all over the news, people are losing their minds because illegals are getting deported. There's also the seven country temporary ban. These have to be the two biggest running stories.
 
OK point taken but they are hardly anywhere near the majority

I think undesirables are the majority

If we only allowed well educated skilled persons and their immediate family (meaning the wife and children only) then more than half would have to go
 
It's all over the news, people are losing their minds because illegals are getting deported. There's also the seven country temporary ban. These have to be the two biggest running stories.
Yes, but still a small minority of people. There are loads of Americans who aren’t “losing their minds” either way, even if they have opinions on these situations not to mention plenty who don’t really care (for good reason or bad) and are just getting on with their day-to-day lives.
 
Yes, but still a small minority of people. There are loads of Americans who aren’t “losing their minds” either way, even if they have opinions on these situations not to mention plenty who don’t really care (for good reason or bad) and are just getting on with their day-to-day lives.

We have let the open borders-uncontrolled migration crowd have their way for 30 years and the problem is just getting worse

It's time to try inforcement
 
We have let the open borders-uncontrolled migration crowd have their way for 30 years and the problem is just getting worse

It's time to try inforcement
The USA has never had uncontrolled migration. If legal immigration wasn’t controlled, you wouldn’t have any illegal immigration by definition. You can’t effectively address the very real problems on the basis of dishonest and rhetorical assessments of the situation.
 
The USA has never had uncontrolled migration. If legal immigration wasn’t controlled, you wouldn’t have any illegal immigration by definition. You can’t effectively address the very real problems on the basis of dishonest and rhetorical assessments of the situation.

liberals support an open border with Mexico which allows millions of aliens to wander into our country without permission

Then liberal fight like hell to prevent those illegal aliens from being deported

That is a policy of uncontrolled migration whether you admit it or not
 
We cannot mix a tolerant culture with an intolerable one. Islam is intolerance at its most extreme.

I used to think that Coldjoint. But I'm learning from a professor at Georgetown U. who as a Muslim himself must know what he talking about, that Islam is very tolerant indeed. Islam tolerates slavery whereas Western Islamophobes do not. The West demands consent by both/all parties before accepting sexual relations as lawful while Islam, much less restrictive, does not.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9943/free-speech-yiannopoulos

If we see anyone on DP attacking slavery we now where they are coming from: they are fascist Nazi Islamophobes and rascists too - though the good Professor Brown is 'white'.
 
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