• Beefy-Tootz@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The issue isn’t so much the wall, it’s that there’s no sense of priority. Our immigration system is dog shit and desperately needs to be reformed. Instead of putting any effort into that, we’re huffing and puffing about a wall. It’s just the wrong focus and we fully understand it’s less about immigrants and more about Mexicans. Most illegal aliens are people who arrive by boat or plane, not crossing the southern border. They’re people who over stay their visas. We never hear about that, or any plan to combat that. We only ever hear about the stupid border wall

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      9 months ago

      Yeah legal immigration definitely needs an overhaul in the USA.

      I think it would probably get more steam if the border was less porous though.

      It’s a hard sell to let in more legal immigrants when you can show photos of crowds swarming the border.