1/With people freaking out about the Honduran migrant caravan now forcing its way through Mexico, I figured it might be time for a thread about Central American immigration.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2018-10-21/migrant-caravan-continues-toward-u-s-even-as-trump-threatens-military-intervention …
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Giving them amnesty is politically impossible. Kicking them out is practically and politically impossible. Putting them in camps is morally, practically, and politically impossible. Your recent tweets seem to imply you think there is no problem. I disagree.
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I mean, I don't think the presence of those 6 million Mexicans in our country is much of a problem. It puts some strains on some local govt. finances, sure. And it pisses some conservatives off. But I'm not freaking out about it, personally.
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I am 62 years old and have lived in the midwest, south and Appalachia, working in and around factories. I hear people complain about immigrants -- but I can't remember it ever really being a problem. Except when there weren't enough to pick tomatoes.
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Having an exploited permanent underclass is economically advantageous, but also a serious moral problem.
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Agreed. Amnesty is the only common sense answer.
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Blanket amnesty is politically impossible. It is necessary to try to find a compromise such as the 2007 immigration bill. Such a compromise can't be reached if everyone takes the panglossian attitude of
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Whatever happened to that 2007 bill?? Hmm...
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It failed. Your point?
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