Porteroso said:
whiterock said:
Porteroso said:
whiterock said:
Getting a free trip to Martha's Vineyard is the best thing that's happened to those migrants since they handed all their money over to the drug cartels for passage to America.
You make it sound like a bad thing. For many of them, they left death and starvation, and are in the greatest country try on the planet now.
I'd give cartels money too if they'd take me from a shothole to a place where dreams come true.
Put Porteroso down for "human smuggling is just fine since it helps us exceed statutory immigration limits."
Dumb take. It's easy to legislate morality, but more difficult to live it. I do not think cartels smuggling humans is good, in fact, and you can look this up, it's bad. But personally, I might pay them to smuggle me and my family, if conditions were bad enough. We all have our limits on what horrors we will take.
I can hear it now: " Well, I do not think slavery is good, and in fact you can look that up, but personally, if our labor shortage is severe enough, we might have to dabble in it a little to we can fill our production quotas. After all, we do have limits on the horrors we will take, but until we reach that limit, we can solve a few problems, now, can't we."
Why should anyone have to hire the most violent criminal organizations on earth to immigrate to a country with a long and strong tradition of legal immigration? Why should we tolerate ANY human smuggling? We have a 17 year line of qualified immigrants waiting on quota space. People who DO qualify for US Citizenship and have been vetted as suitable for legal immigration, living on a green card, legally working, etc..... Why on earth would we not accelerate the pace of letting in those folks? Why not lift the 1m/yr cap? Make it 2m? Make it 3m? We do have a Congress who can change the statute to make that happen, and a POTUS likely to sign the necessary legislation. But nah.. That's too hard. Just let in whatever/whomever can pitch up to the border with enough money to pay the cartels. Simple. Why, voters don't even need to know it's happening. Shh......
Human smuggling is the most barbaric think to happen in North America since the slave trade.
It'd be one thing if it was happening a little bit around the margins.
But our ruling class is ignoring a million-man march as a way to evade statutory limits on legal immigration.
Hard no for me.