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Indefinite Suspension of Immigration into your Country

Would you be in favor of indefinitely suspending immigration to your country?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 25.5%
  • Yes, but only muslim immigrants

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Yes, but only immigrants from certain countries

    Votes: 3 6.4%
  • Maybe

    Votes: 3 6.4%
  • No

    Votes: 27 57.4%
  • Give us your diseased ,your jihadist, and criminals please.

    Votes: 1 2.1%

  • Total voters
    47

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This poll question asks if you would be in favor of indefinitely suspending immigration into your country. (please be honest)

This poll is not public, please do not let political correctness influence your vote.
 
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No, I would not be in favor of it. Immigration laws need a bit of an overhaul here, and more needs to be done to prevent illegal immigration, but I'm not in favor of stopping immigration altogether.
 
I would be in favor of it because we already have enough mouths to feed. That being said, if we are bringing educated immigrants with good job skills, that we need in the workforce, I could live with that.:)

Oh, and stop illegal immigration.
 
no, then who would drive taxi's, run fish and ship shops, get all the good grades at schools?
we need to perpetuate these stereotypes

but in all seriousness, i would not suspend immigration, being Australian, it harkens back to the days of the white Australia policy (yes, Australia was as rascist as the rest of the world once, some people find that surprising), and immigration needs to be encouraged, even if it is for the sake of gastronomic diversity.
 
This poll question asks if you would be in favor of indefinitely suspending immigration into your country. (please be honest)

This poll is not public, please do not let political correctness influence your vote.
maybe. it would depend upon waht else was being planned and what the time line was.
 
Only in very specific emergency type situations and even then likely only temporary.

If there was some kind of honest to goodness nationwide famine I’d be in favor of it

If there was a particular country we had a high, legitimate threat reported from I wouldn’t have an issue with at temporary suspension of any of the quicker (relatively speaking) forms of immigration

I wouldn’t have an issue with making it so we allow less immigrants in per year.

But just a flat out indefinite suspension of it? Nope, would need a GOOD reason for it.
 
There is nothing wrong with LEGAL immigration. So suspending that would be idiotic in the current climate imo.

However ILLEGAL aliens need to gtfo.
 
That being said, if we are bringing educated immigrants with good job skills, that we need in the workforce, I could live with that.:)

Or, we could focus our efforts on training Americans for those jobs.
 
Or, we could focus our efforts on training Americans for those jobs.

I have no problem with that except that I was referring to highly skilled jobs with substantial educational requirements. If we can find Americans who are willing and able, I'm fine with it.
 
This poll question asks if you would be in favor of indefinitely suspending immigration into your country. (please be honest)

This poll is not public, please do not let political correctness influence your vote.

I say no. But I do support A temporary suspension of immigration for countries we have the most illegal immigration problems with until the illegal immigration problem we have with that country is fixed or at least brought down to reasonable levels.
 
While we can't go completely open boarders style, we absolutely should NEVER suspend the full of immigration. We need immigration, it's good for a country. Helps with innovation, adds to the base. There are too many benefits from it to do away with it. Like I said, you can't go open boarders. There are reasonable regulations to install and use, but let's not go overboard.
 
Stopping immigration altogether is not a good idea. Let's see, we have a couple of choices:

Have a legal process for immigration in which the candidate applies, has a background check, shows he is employable and that there is a place for him in this country, then is extended an invitation. That way, we'd get people who would be an asset to our society.

or the current choice:

Anyone who demonstrates the ability to sneak past the Border Patrol and the willingness to live clandestinely and to work for substandard wages can enter this country. That way, we'll have a pool of low cost labor that will add enough to the bottom line that we can afford to pay off politicians to be sure that nothing effective is done to stop illegal immigration.

Clearly, we have chosen option 2.
 
Another poll, another maybe. Thanks for at least having that type option.

Legal immigration should only be suspended in a drastic emergency. It's good for the country. However, in such a drastic emergency, of course you should suspend it for the course of the emergency.
 
This poll question asks if you would be in favor of indefinitely suspending immigration into your country. (please be honest)

This poll is not public, please do not let political correctness influence your vote.

Immigration needs and overhaul like poster nr2 says. I believe the right answer is to tighten immigration, especially such ridiculous parts as the "family waiver" things. We also need to start deporting useless foreigners, foreign criminals, and we need to send them back to their countries, where they can do a lot more good than suck around on our welfare states and goodwill.

It also needs to be a possibility to permanently ban from our territory neutralized and second/third generation criminal foreigners.
 
I voted no. The benefits of immigration outweigh the risks. Immigration has been the lifeblood of North American societies. Our infrastructure was built by them, and don't forget that we ourselves are immigrants to this continent.
 
I voted no. The benefits of immigration outweigh the risks. Immigration has been the lifeblood of North American societies. Our infrastructure was built by them, and don't forget that we ourselves are immigrants to this continent.

I disagree, I myself am not an immigrant to the continent. I was born here and my grandmother was full Cherokee.
 
I disagree, I myself am not an immigrant to the continent. I was born here and my grandmother was full Cherokee.

So, your ancestors immigrated via the land bridge from Asia, probably chasing mammoth.



I'll bet they didn't have papers, either.:mrgreen:
 
No. Limited immigration sure. We should only allow law abiding and hard working people into our country and at set numbers. Rif Raf not welcome.
 
Yes is the emotional and necessary response.
This area needs reform, like so many other areas.
In the olden days, the criminals were barred, right?
And that worked, right?
Ha!
And, how do you determine who is "rif-raf" and who is not.
Vito Corelone, as a 12 year old, what was he??
 
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Yes is the emotional and necessary response.
This area needs reform, like so many other areas.
In the olden days, the criminals were barred, right?
And that worked, right?
Ha!
And, how do you determine who is "rif-raf" and who is not.
Vito Corelone, as a 12 year old, what was he??

I would consider rif-raf as someone with:

-A criminal record.

-History of unemployment when employment opprotunuties were available if they recieved any goverment assistance.

-Has children that are not supported.

And a child, unless shown to be problematic, should be allowed to immigrate with the parent(s).
 
If we could stem it or shut it down for a while to fix it, that'd be great. We're full of our own poor, tired, **** on, huddled masses at the moment and can't take on any more. :D Unless some corporate types want to immigrate here and bring their business with them :rofl
 
Yes, of course.

We're overrun and we need to stop the invasion and get our feet back under us. Then we can decide who we'll allow in, and if we should merely shoot invader-enablers or simply confiscate all their property. That'll depend on the circumstances of the time.
 
Another poll, another maybe. Thanks for at least having that type option.

Legal immigration should only be suspended in a drastic emergency. It's good for the country. However, in such a drastic emergency, of course you should suspend it for the course of the emergency.

Being invaded by thirty million Mexicans is drastic emergency enough. If not after an invasion comprising almost 10% of the native population, then when?
 
It is absolutely nuts to deny immigration to ANY person with at least a bachelor's degree, as long as their legal record is clean and they don't have any easily transmissible diseases. For people with a bachelor's degree or better, we should have a completely open-door immigration policy. These are the people that will create new American companies and employ lots of Americans. When I was in business school, many of my classmates grumbled about how they couldn't stay in the United States after they graduated due to companies being unwilling to sponsor them (thanks to our cumbersome immigration process), so they ended up going back home. And these were MBAs for God's sake.

We also need people to do less skilled tasks, and unfortunately our own citizens have priced themselves out of the market through minimum wage hikes and unionization. If immigrants are willing to do these jobs for less money, so be it, as long as they come at a manageable rate. Personally I think that our current amount of unskilled immigration (including both legal and illegal) is about right...they just need to be spread out throughout the country better. Perhaps our government could offer illegal immigrants conditional amnesty, or offer legal immigrants an expedited path to citizenship, if they pledge to relocate to a part of the country that doesn't have as many immigrants.

As for the whole "THEY TOOK ERR JEERRRBS" refrain from nativist Americans...frankly I don't have much sympathy. There is nothing stopping Americans from getting the training or education they need to succeed. One of the crowning achievements of our country is our public college/university system: Even the poorest Americans can put themselves through four years of college or whatever type of vocational school they want. This anti-immigrant sentiment is really no different from "The white man is keeping me down" or any other kind of race-baiting excuse to blame someone else for one's own failures in life.
 
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Stopping it entirely? No. Overhauling the system, absolutely. We need to fix a very broken system and come down a lot harder on illegal immigration. It ought to be easier (or at least faster) to become a legal citizen, but we ought to be picky about who we allow in. Those who attempt to get in illegally need to either go back to the back of the line or be denied the opportunity to ever become a citizen. There's a right way and a wrong way to do it, those who choose the wrong way need to have consequences for their actions.
 
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