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Open borders means open to illegal immigration.

No one is arguing that immigration isn't good.

You can have taco trucks with legal immigration.




CAN you have taco trucks with legal immigration?

Say you live with your family in Juarez right now - what do you think statistically your chance of legal immigrating to the United States is (and lets up the ante, say you have legit proof that every mafia boss in Mexico is hunting you and every member of your family)...?

I'll give you a ballpark - your chance of legal immigrating is similar to me marrying Gisele... there is a chance, I am very good looking but you know...

Majority of people arguing "illegal" vs. "legal" immigration simply fail to look at statistic to see that "legal" immigration is vaporware - just a term to use to try to prove some point which cannot be proven with that argument...


> Open borders means open to illegal immigration. No, open borders mean that the immigrants are legal by default. It doesn't mean the borders aren't secure enough for your paranoid xenophobic liking.


> No, open borders mean that the immigrants are legal by default.

I suppose that's one definition of it, a more extreme version. No country on Earth has this kind of immigration policy. It would be unsustainable.

> It doesn't mean the borders aren't secure enough for your paranoid xenophobic liking.

Ad-hominem attacks are not necessary. My wife is second generation immigrant. Her father is first generation, they do not support illegal immigration either. He came here legally and the people that come here illegally take away resources from those who want to come here legally the right way.


> Open borders means open to illegal immigration.

I know what it means ;)

> No one is arguing that immigration isn't good.

You'd be surprised how many people argue exactly that. But I digress, I was just making a poorly-timed joke.




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