Tucker Carlson Explained

[Blackheart1]

Well I laid out an extreme example: cultures that practice cannibalism. I don't think anybody wants a bunch of cannibals in the neighborhood, so you probably would say that a preference should be shown to other cultures that don't eat other people. It's simply a starting point in the discussion to find agreement on who shouldn't be shown equal preference when looking at immigration.

I think we can all agree that it's preferable to have a moderate Muslim come to America as opposed to having an Islamic extremist, correct?

The only cannibal I’m familiar with is domestic; Jeffrey Dahmer, and recently I am more concerned with white supremacy extremists. I can agree that any violent persons are not my favorite.

 

[ElprofesorJuan]

as someone intimately familiar with the subject, this is blatantly false. there is no plethora of Mexican Engineering graduates working manual labor. even if there were, the concept of someone willingly making $8/hr when they have the education requirement to make ~$80-100k/year flies in the face of reality at Mach 1 speed.

but lets pretend its not. if energy companies knew there was a bevy of Engineering talent willing to make less than ~$20k/year this would've been capitalized on long ago.

No offense, but I feel like you're talking about a personal anecdote based on probably one person. I worked in a restaurant with a kid from Mexico about the same age as me in 2015. Said he had an Engineering degree. Dug a little deeper, turned out he studied Engineering at IPN for a year or so before deciding to come to America. Kept in touch with the fella all these years because it helps me stay brushed up on my Spanish. He moved back to Mexico, doesn't have to work a day in his life, never did because his family is ridiculously loaded.

Now that's a helluva story, don't you think? A true one too, but certainly not enough to say "this is how it is for all Mexicans".

Well you are thinking like a American....Luckily I can think like both American and Mexican....The pay rate for Engineers is not that much my Friend in Mexico.. I lived with many Undocumented when I was younger..Not just one kid who I met at a restaurant...I have worked Picking Oranges Apples Peaches Construction. ..When I speak it's from Personal Knowledge...I worked alongside The Farm Workers Association for a while as well...Where we helped many Undocumented get there green cards..And eventually citizen ship...many that come are well educated but with no work in Mexico they come here....Now I can speak for Mexicans not other Central American or South American countries.

 

[Knight In TN]

The only cannibal I’m familiar with is domestic; Jeffrey Dahmer, and recently I am more concerned with white supremacy extremists. I can agree that any violent persons are not my favorite.

I think those of us willing to admit it would all agree we want to make sure people with troubling behaviors are kept out if possible. I wouldn’t want to import hundreds of thousands of people from a country where homosexuality is illegal and harshly enforced. I also wouldn’t want to import neo-Nazis.

The reasons for not doing so are pretty simple. We don’t want them to come in in huge numbers and affect our culture in a negative way, no? It has nothing to do with the fact that most people from Qatar are brown. It has to do with the fact that being gay is punishable by death there. That’s supported and enforced there. We don’t share those values, and don’t need to open our country up to that influence by importing immigrants from there.

 

[DaShuckster]

It has nothing to do with the fact that most people from Qatar are brown. It has to do with the fact that being gay is punishable by death there. That’s supported and enforced there. We don’t share those values, and don’t need to open our country up to that influence by importing immigrants from there.

Great point. Foreign government policy = foreign immigrant mindset. 🙄

There's no way that people desperate to immigrate from Qatar might be homosexuals, right?

 

[Knight In TN]

Great point. Foreign government policy = foreign immigrant mindset. 🙄

There's no way that people desperate to immigrate from Qatar might be homosexuals, right?

They might be. That’s why I don’t advocate for a completely closed border and no immigration. Geez, you’re dense. The fact that those policies are in place is at least a somewhat telling sign about the culture of the nation’s citizens.

Immigration should be carefully considered on an individual basis. Which is why ignoring the southern border is bad public policy.

 

[DaShuckster]

They might be. That’s why I don’t advocate for a completely closed border and no immigration. Geez, you’re dense. The fact that those policies are in place is at least a somewhat telling sign about the culture of the nation’s citizens.

Immigration should be carefully considered on an individual basis. Which is why ignoring the southern border is bad public policy.

There's nothing you said that I disagree with -- until you pretended the southern border is being ignored.

If the 'gate' was open and everybody was 'getting in,' I'm guessing we wouldn't see the mass of immigrants at the border trying to get in now after the Trump years.

 

[Knight In TN]

There's nothing you said that I disagree with -- until you pretended the southern border is being ignored.

If the 'gate' was open and everybody was 'getting in,' I'm guessing we wouldn't see the mass of immigrants at the border trying to get in now after the Trump years.

Of course we see a surge... Biden supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. That’s basically an invitation to get in if you can and a promise to be forgiven for skipping the line.

Not sure how you don’t connect the differences in policy to the differences in behavior at the border.