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Penny Adrian's avatar

If you had a reasonable response, you would make one. You basically forfeited the argument.

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Ximena Duval's avatar

Totally agree it's important to see the humanity in immigrants/migrants. But our elected leaders are supposed to represent our interests not the interests of human beings outside their jurisdiction. And pretty much everyone wants a border of some kind (i.e., not open borders) then it follows that our elected leaders are tasked with weighting the costs of benefits of different immigration policies on their constituents. Now obviously this doesn't happen or immigration would be far lower but it's just to point out that we have to identify costs and benefits if we aren't letting everyone in. And having low and loose standards on who gets in to wealthy countries not always good for people from other countries. Take a look at one of the free US national provider ID lookups and you'll see lots of doctors and nurses who were trained in public universities in countries experiencing poverty and health care provider shortages come to the US--the US gets a trained provider, and the provider gets lots of $, but what about the people whose tax dollars trained the provider or who just need medical care??

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