Ending "Illegal Immigration" is so very easy and inexpensive to do...

Empirica said:

Thank you kindly for the "bite sized chunks"...I will respond in kind.

I have heard that War Is Hell but am also aware that political accounts of war are often strewn with misinformation.

Once again; I will remind you that the "Cold War" was about total global annihilation...TOTAL!

And the US could not risk another Communist Cuba in the Western Hemisphere; or anywhere for that matter.

You must admit, these global threats dwarf the distasteful tactics of Reagan and the CIA during the same time period.

I can name several undesirable/totalitarian "far-left" regimes; in both history and modern day.

But I don't recall a single report of a "far-right" regime in the history of the world.

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Uh ohhhh, you apparently subscribe to the "Hitler was a liberal" theme, I'm guessing.
If that is the case, I am becoming convinced that there is no earthly possibility of having a rational debate, there's just too much disinformation sewn into your mind.

PS: You're by far not the first person I've encountered who fled from a Communist regime.
I spent six years working camera and edit for American-Russian Television in West Hollywood in the pre-satellite era, when UHF TV was the defacto means of distributing immigrant oriented television programming to urban immigrant communities.
Yep, you heard right, I spent six years hanging out with a bunch of ex-Soviets who were glad to be in America.

They're doing mighty well these days, by the way, but none of them have drifted into John Birch Society territory.
That's not to say that they are far-Left liberals, they just managed to gain enough perspective.

Now, tell me what you think Hitler's Third Reich really was if it wasn't far-Right fascist.
I am not interested in proving that it was Far Right to you because that argument occupies some 2,373,490,875,983,938,598,755,734 posts in this forum and others, so it's been done to death, and I've concluded that most people who subscribe to "Hitler was a liberal" are as far gone as Flat Earthers and chemtrailers.

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Uh ohhhh, you apparently subscribe to the "Hitler was a liberal" theme, I'm guessing.
If that is the case, I am becoming convinced that there is no earthly possibility of having a rational debate, there's just too much disinformation sewn into your mind.

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Agreed; but for ulterior motives.

PS: You're by far not the first person I've encountered who fled from a Communist regime.

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I'm 1st generation American born US Citizen...It was my parents that did the fleeing.

I spent six years working camera and edit for American-Russian Television in West Hollywood in the pre-satellite era, when UHF TV was the defacto means of distributing immigrant oriented television programming to urban immigrant communities.

Yep, you heard right, I spent six years hanging out with a bunch of ex-Soviets who were glad to be in America.
They're doing mighty well these days, by the way, but none of them have drifted into John Birch Society territory.
That's not to say that they are far-Left liberals, they just managed to gain enough perspective.

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What they did was gain enough "perspective" to blend into the liberal culture of southern California.

Being "Soviet" makes one very good at survival and that's why "they're doing mighty well these days".

You got played.

Now, tell me what you think Hitler's Third Reich really was if it wasn't far-Right fascist.
I am not interested in proving that it was Far Right to you because that argument occupies some 2,373,490,875,983,938,598,755,734 posts in this forum and others, so it's been done to death, and I've concluded that most people who subscribe to "Hitler was a liberal" are as far gone as Flat Earthers and chemtrailers.

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What "Hitler's Third Reich really was" a bunch of thugs...But they were elected to power under the banner of 'Socialism".

https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian
"The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist state was one of the many great contributions of Ludwig von Mises.

When one remembers that the word "Nazi" was an abbreviation for "der Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei — in English translation: the National Socialist German Workers' Party — Mises's identification might not appear all that noteworthy. For what should one expect the economic system of a country ruled by a party with "socialist" in its name to be but socialism?
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (1881–1973)
Having fled the Nazis to the United States, Mises did some of his most important work here. In over two decades of teaching, he inspired an emerging Austrian School in the United States. The year after Mises died in 1973, his most distinguished follower, F.A. Hayek, was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his work in elaborat*ing Mises’s business cycle theory during the later 1920s and 1930s."

My guess is you'll dismiss these facts without even reading the very informative link quoting Ludwig von Mises, an Austrian economist who is an authority that was there.

Like you, I have no desire to debate this any further...Have a lovely day~

I have an idea: why don't we set up some sort of financial reward for people who report businesses that hire illegals? The State will confiscate everything the owner has, shut down the business, sells whatever assets they can, and then give a portion of that money to the snitch (for a lack of better term). This way we would be greatly reduce the incentive for businesses to hire illegals. And once these cash jobs dry up, the illegals will not be able to make a living anymore and will voluntarily head back.

Yay or nay?

Eliminating the natural citizenship policy would require taking it to the supreme court. The others are much more plausible.

Empirica said:

My "remedy" is simply to eliminate the magnets that attract would-be illegals.

Those "magnets" are:
Jobs
Anchor Babies
Medical Care
Education
State & Federal Assistance Programs
But above all else;
Amnesty/Citizenship

Make these "Magnets" inaccessible to illegal aliens and I guarantee a near 100% reduction in Illegal Immigration.

This will negate the need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, a Border Wall, and all those other expensive, complicated fixes that our politicians and bureaucrats are so famous for.

See signature below & have a lovely day~ :nails

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I agree those things would drastically reduce illegal immigration. I still prefer a wall. Because we get another George Bush or Barrack Obama in office the talks of amnesty/legal status for illegals ramp up, enforcement is lowered, and waivers/loopholes are enacted. While border agents can easily be fired a wall on the other hand can't. A wall makes it much harder for someone to cross and makes it easier for border guards to spot illegal crossers when they are trying to climb over a wall.

Technically the only thing that makes a child of an illegal immigrant born here an anchor baby is due to a provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that allows for the chain migration of relatives other than spouse and minor children. The first lady is using this provision to bring her parents over.

What we also need is a way to prevent another president from using executive orders to give back door amnesty like DACA or anything else that delays or prevents the deportation of illegals.