Who should be Trump's VP choice and why?

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(06-11-2024, 12:09 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: There's a significant number of people here who think that past US actions, e.g. coups in various nations, resource exploitation, taking land such as Texas, etc. means that we cannot enforce our borders and that anyone who can set foot on US soil should be allowed entry.  You'd think this is an exaggeration of the position, but it really isn't.  Of course, in addition to allowing millions into a system without much in the way of checks on who they are or what they're doing here, no country can culturally absorb such a flow of immigrants, illegal or otherwise.  There's also the issue of putting up immigrants, both legal and illegal in comfy hotel rooms or houses while natural born US citizens are homeless.

Honestly, at this point I'd put a complete freeze on immigration of any kind for ten years, only reopening it once we've fixed the system including a Constitutional amendment removing the born on US soil citizenship, which has served its intended purpose and is now routinely abused.  Note that's all immigrants, no racism here, a complete blanket freeze.

I certainly understand the problem. Just today it was made public that 35% of Vienna's elementary school pupils are muslims now. That is too much for our society to absorb too, that's also not about racism, so I sure would not make that connection here. What I would disagree with is pinning immigrants and the homeless against each other, for the homeless crisis imho is not unsolved because of immigrants. I also am sceptical about a complete halt of any immigration. For one, it seems many industries depend on immigrant's labour. But mostly, it was always admirable to me how the US is built on ideals, built by immigrants uniting in said ideals, where everyone who is willing to contribute and work hard is welcome no matter the ethnicity. I wouldn't throw that away completely by a total immigration freeze, it seems like an advantage. Capping it, conditioning it to certain aspects and having way less tolerance towards illegal immigrants, that sure gets my support and I agree the Dems seem awfully weak on that issue.

Oh yeah and the born on US soil policy certainly is astonishing. I would never tolerate such a policy for my country.