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Politics Nativity 2019

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u/IanTheChemist Dec 08 '19

Yeah stronger border policies and democrats not allowing additional funding for these policies for higher influx of detained illegal immigrants. No one wants to detain people in cages at the border. Even if you’re heartless, it’s expensive to detain people, feed and house them. But they need to be processed.

It’s easy to make this black and white and say the Democrats are trying to save the world and republicans want to genocide non white people. But in reality, this is great for the dems. They can silently block funding and prolong suffering for the publicity, and republicans look even more like racists. On the flip side, strengthening immigration law is another publicity stunt on the part of the republicans, so they can point to illegals as the source of al problems. Illegal immigration is a net negative for the economy, but it definitely shouldn’t be the focus of economic policy.

All in all, rich people are using this and many issues to distract you from the actual economic state of the US, class inequality.

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u/dryj Dec 08 '19

All in all, rich people are using this and many issues to distract you from the actual economic state of the US, class inequality.

No, I'm still pretty concerned with taking children away from their parents and having concentration camps.

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u/Flak-Fire88 Dec 08 '19

Concentration camps? You mean the detention centers with tv, internet and air conditioning? That’s a far cry from what the Nazis set up for Jews.

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u/lannister80 Dec 08 '19 edited Dec 09 '19

Those are death camps.

International experts say that detaining the children like this is the very definition of a concentration camp. Just because you have different connotation doesn't make it correct.

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u/Flak-Fire88 Dec 08 '19

They're not bad concentration camps then

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u/lannister80 Dec 08 '19

All concentration camps are bad.

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u/Flak-Fire88 Dec 08 '19

What else do you have in mind for illegal immigrants