Subj : Re: Immigration then and
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Mon Sep 05 2022 22:55:39

On 05 Sep 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> >  MP> But not all of
 MP> >  MP> them cross at legal crossings, and not all of those that don't get
 MP> >  MP> caught.
 MP> > True. But the refugees who cross seeking asylum generally turn themselve
 MP> > at the first opportunity. Their situation makes them seek out the author
 MP> > rather than avoid them. They are doing things the legal way.
 MP> > A big part of the anti-refugee propaganda is making them out to be illeg
 MP> > immigrants, which they are not.
 MP> For me it is the ease of being able to yell "asylum!" and suddenly be
 MP> considered legal or potentially legal.  If they really wanted asylum,
 MP> they should have crossed at a legal checkpoint.  If they are not, they
 MP> are hoping not to encounter someone, although I am certain they know to
 MP> act as if they were looking for that encounter all along should it
 MP> happen.

Refugees seeking asylum go through a vetting process. Not all are allowed
through.

 MP> Maybe you are that naive.

Or maybe you are.

 MP> >  MP> Apparently many of the legal ones do not have sponsors or jobs
 MP> >  MP> lined up.
 MP> > There are organizations that will sponsor them.
 MP> In past, you told us they had to have sponsors lined up already.  Which
 MP> is it?

It is a combination of both.

 MP> >  MP> Otherwise, the government would have turned them over to said
 MP> >  MP> sponsors before the local governors got a chance to ask them if the
 MP> >  MP> want to travel to NYC, Chicago, DC, or another proclaimed "sanctuar
 MP> >  MP> city" and put them on a bus.
 MP> > Organizations that will sponsor them are usually located in larger citie
 MP> > I like how you threw "sanctuary city" in there. "Sanctuary cities" are
 MP> > distinguished by their treatment of illegal immigrants, not refugees. Yo
 MP> > been brainwashed into thinking that refugees are illegal immigrants, whe
 MP> > they are not.
 MP> But there are no illegal immigrants that don't get turned away, right?

Absolutely there are.

 MP> > The Border Patrol also makes that distinction, and regularly deports ill
 MP> > immigrants.

Jeff.

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