azzaman333
meh
Tony Abbott can't tolerate any.
How many can you tolerate?
(What is your opinion on immigration/asylum seekers)
How many can you tolerate?
(What is your opinion on immigration/asylum seekers)
How many boat people can you tolerate?
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All of them.
Cheetah
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Depends on who, why and from where. Also when/how often. And to where. And what they want to/plan to do.
Pretty liberal. Pro-immigrant and pretty pro-refugee too. In the future, if the major cities really become too crowded to accept new immigrants, then the best thing to do would be to improve urban infrastructure, or mandate that new immigrants settle outside of the large cities, rather than close doors to immigration.
Disgustipated
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We don't call them boat people- probably because they get across the border on foot. 
I'm against illegal immigration. I think field pickers should not be illegal immigrants, but people who are unemployed in the U.S. We should not be giving out unemployment checks for nothing. These people need to work for that money.
Kick all the illegals out.
You will argue that no one wants to do that work for low pay. The simple solution is to raise their pay. Duh. If you make $20 an hour picking fields, you will have no shortage of workers. But instead, the greedy companies have found a loophole of using illegal immigrants. Sure food prices will be much higher, but it's better in the long run.
Legal immigration I fully support.
Asylum seekers I'm against as they are technically illegal aliens as well. Considering most of the world is hurting compared to us, it's not like we can take in 5 billion people into the U.S. and provide them with jobs and food.
I'm against illegal immigration. I think field pickers should not be illegal immigrants, but people who are unemployed in the U.S. We should not be giving out unemployment checks for nothing. These people need to work for that money.
Kick all the illegals out.
You will argue that no one wants to do that work for low pay. The simple solution is to raise their pay. Duh. If you make $20 an hour picking fields, you will have no shortage of workers. But instead, the greedy companies have found a loophole of using illegal immigrants. Sure food prices will be much higher, but it's better in the long run.
Legal immigration I fully support.
Asylum seekers I'm against as they are technically illegal aliens as well. Considering most of the world is hurting compared to us, it's not like we can take in 5 billion people into the U.S. and provide them with jobs and food.
We don't call them boat people- probably because they get across the border on foot.
Refugees aren't illegal immigrants, dude; the term "boat people" specifically refers to asylum seekers who emigrate in (usually poorly crafted) boats - the quintessential example being the Vietnamese boat people escaping from south Asia as a result of the Vietnamese war after the fall of Saigon. What you said is completely irrelevant anyway, since this thread is a matter of how much immigration of this type should be legal, not what should be done with what is or not legal.
No they're not - the United States takes in a specified number of refugees as citizens who apply for asylum either overseas or after arriving in the U.S. This is also distinct from the legality of their residency.Disgustipated said:
Disgustipated
Deity
not technically, no. But they are escaping poor conditions in their home country. Are they not refugees of their home country's poor economy?
"Asylum seeker" is a specific term referring to people leaving their home country due to the fear of persecution.
bigdog5994
Lady Day
All of them.
agreed
ParkCungHee
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Exactly one. When you get two Boat people in the same room, they won't stop talking about their boats, and theres no end to it.
Disgustipated
Deity
Either way I'm against it. We can't take everyone in. Barring any kind of holocaust type cleansing (and even then we should send them back win the situation is resolved), I'm against allowing people into this country for this reason. It's not like I let anyone into my house who's being persecuted. I simply don't have the means to support them.
Im mostly against immigration.
1. It only makes conditions worse in the countries they migrate from. It's usually the educated or rich who manage to come here, and without them their home country get's even worse, meaning more people will migrate. It's a bad cirle.
2. It costs too much. Due to bad integration, immigrations are overrepresented in unemployment and crime statistics, as well as having more health problems. Im not getting into why, Im just stating the fact here.
3. Sure it does help the people who come here, but at a great economic cost to both the society the migrate from and the society the come into. More people could be helped for the same amount of money, if spend on building schools and wells in the poor countries they come from.
Im therefore for more foreign aid and less immigration.
1. It only makes conditions worse in the countries they migrate from. It's usually the educated or rich who manage to come here, and without them their home country get's even worse, meaning more people will migrate. It's a bad cirle.
2. It costs too much. Due to bad integration, immigrations are overrepresented in unemployment and crime statistics, as well as having more health problems. Im not getting into why, Im just stating the fact here.
3. Sure it does help the people who come here, but at a great economic cost to both the society the migrate from and the society the come into. More people could be helped for the same amount of money, if spend on building schools and wells in the poor countries they come from.
Im therefore for more foreign aid and less immigration.
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