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View Poll Results: Should the US restrict immigration?
Yes, we can't let in everyone who wants to come here. 133 95.68%
No, everyone who wants to come here should be welcome. 6 4.32%
Voters: 139. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-17-2016, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Somewhere in between. No illegal immigrants, but we shouldn't close off our borders to all (legal) immigrants either.
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:17 PM
 
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Yes there should be restrictions on immigration....which the US already has restrictions on immigration.
If you want to call 1-1.5 million immigrants a year every year from everywhere on earth restriction . We're suppose to be the United States not the (dis)United Colonies of the UN .
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:18 PM
 
Location: The Woodlands, TX
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The US already restricts immigration.

The federal govt is impotent to protect the border hence the states and cities left holding the bag, then get blamed for applying their morals and resources to solve the issue.
How about they APPLY THE LAW TO SOLVE THE ISSUE !"



All of America should help the federal government enforce basic laws.

When liberal cities "apply their morals and resources"... they make it worse! They give illegals a "safe place".

If there was a road where it was guaranteed that you would never get stopped by the police... what do you think people would do, Obey the law or speed?

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Old 11-17-2016, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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If you want to call 1-1.5 million immigrants a year every year from everywhere on earth restriction . We're suppose to the United States not the (dis)United Colonies of the UN .
Do you have an optimal figure in mind?
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:19 PM
 
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Somewhere in between. No illegal immigrants, but we shouldn't close off our borders to all (legal) migrants either.
Why not? Of course we should. You want to come just as a visitor or tourist and leave as scheduled fine.
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:20 PM
 
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Bbbut.... Europeans are illegals! All Latin Americans are Indians! And Mexico owned parts of the US for like, 20 years! The poem on the Statue of Liberty supersedes immigration laws!

(Am I missing any?)

No, that pretty much sums up the liberal's and ethnocentrics talking points.
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:20 PM
 
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Do you have an optimal figure in mind?
Net zero to net negative immigration/emigration. Do YOU have an optimal quantitative and qualitative figure in mind?
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:21 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Heh!

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I guess the left are ignoring this poll

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Somewhere in between. No illegal immigrants, but we shouldn't close off our borders to all (legal) immigrants either.
What the hell are you talking about?

Illegal immigrants use the borders... LEGAL immigrants fly in!!!

Locking up the border won't stop legal immigration, but it will all but stop illegal immigration!
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:23 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Net zero to net negative immigration/emigration. Do YOU have an optimal quantitative and qualitative figure in mind?
I do not yet. I'd have to think about it. Was curious about your opinion since you stated 1.5M was too much.
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Old 11-17-2016, 05:23 PM
 
Location: The Woodlands, TX
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Heh!

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I guess the left are ignoring this poll

Not sure if that's it...

I think many of them have the strange view that we need to limit immigration (or at least they tell themselves that)... but if people get in illegally then it is a humanitarian issue and we can't be "mean".
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