popper wrote:payitforward wrote:popper wrote:...What's your solution to the border crisis?
"Crisis" is a negative evaluative term, popper; it's not a descriptive term.
Can you say what you think needs to change and why it needs to change -- without using any evaluative terms?
I.e. no words like "crisis," "enormous," "illegal," "disastrous," "unfair," etc.
What is happening & no more. The actual events/conditions that you have in mind under the word "crisis."
The term "solution" is also an evaluative term, btw, a positive one -- in the sense that it requires there to be a negative in place. & it prejudges positively whatever actions it is calling a "solution."
Are you aware of any situations, here or anywhere, now or in the past, in which the word "solution" was used as a replacement for descriptive words -- words describing actions that very few people would have been willing to accept?
I rarely check in here, but I'll come back a bunch of times in hope of a response from you.
It seems to me that current border policy has a hefty cost associated with it.
I read there were 600+ bodies found on the border so far this year. Who knows how many more were found 10 to 50 miles north or south of the border. I've read that thousands of women and girls are sexually assaulted on their way to the border. I read that 50 migrants perished in the back of an abandoned truck in south Texas this year. I've read about those who drown, sometimes with their children, trying to swim the Rio Grande. I've read that the cartels and other human traffickers are making hundreds of millions facilitating this migration. I've read that Fentanyl finding it's way across the border is causing the death of thousands of people. It seems to me that our current border policies might somehow be facilitating the aforementioned outcomes. Not sure but I think there must be a better way of handling the situation.
If you're saying that the border crisis is the danger that immigration poses for immigrants, then yes, I'm there with you. But if you understand that, then I don't understand how you can support Republican immigration policies.
You don't have to be an expert to see that the only reason immigration is "illegal" (and consequently dangerous) is because of the laws. If immigration were legal, then it would be no more dangerous for a migrant family to cross borders than it would be for the rest of us. The only reason that people are undocumented is that the government refuses to document them.
A country where everyone who wants to immigrate is documented and accounted for - that's what open borders looks like. Then immigrants don't have to come through with contraband.
