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What is controversial about our current immigration laws?

Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:33 pm
Posted by BugAC
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:33 pm
A lot of panicans are stating that people didn't vote for Trump to uphold our current laws. They want the "nonviolent" illegals to stay. They are stating that they are 100% ok with unfettered illegal immigration as long as the illegals are not violent.

Name me 1 South American country that has this lenient of an immigration policy? Name me 1 country in the world that has this lenient of an immigration policy that isn't being overrun by "migrants" (looking at you Germany, France, UK, etc...)
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:36 pm to
Massie fans gonna get so mad at this thread.
Posted by Cosmo
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:37 pm to
Anything trump does is controversial

Bring world peace is controversial
Posted by TheBoo
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:39 pm to
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What is controversial about our current immigration laws?

Current immigration laws down match their feelings.
Posted by SloaneRanger
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Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:41 pm to
It’s funny. You can search around on YouTube and find videos where Dems like Bernie Sanders are railing against open borders and illegal immigration. They were basically where Trump is now. Things sure changed in a hurry.
Posted by TrueTiger
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:43 pm to
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What is controversial about our current immigration laws?


They aren't strict enough.

Posted by DCtiger1
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:44 pm to
Because these people are all about feelings instead of logic.
Posted by Harry Boutte
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2024
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:46 pm to
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What is controversial about our current immigration laws?

Probably the parts dealing with asylum.
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people didn't vote for Trump to uphold our current laws

Including asylum laws?
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They want the "nonviolent" illegals to stay.

Link?
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They are stating that they are 100% ok with unfettered illegal immigration

Link?
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Name me 1 South American country that has this lenient of an immigration policy?

Ecuador?
Posted by mtntiger
Asheville, NC
Member since Oct 2003
29441 posts
Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:47 pm to
No conservative wants a single illegal here. ZERO. ZILCH. NADA.

I've been waiting for the mass deportations since they got out of hand in the 80s.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:48 pm to
Canada and Mexico have stricter immigration laws. Nuff said.
Posted by TideSaint
Hill Country
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:48 pm to
It is my understanding that ICE is just executing deportation orders at this time.

Violent or not, at some point an immigration judge determined these people needed to leave.

ICE is just enforcing the judge's orders.

What's the issue?
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:51 pm to
The controversy is how poorly several previous administrations failed to enforce them

GWB and Biden in particular
Posted by CAD703X
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 12:55 pm to
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panicans are stating that people didn't vote for Trump to uphold our current laws
Posted by PaperTiger
Ruston, LA
Member since Feb 2015
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 1:00 pm to
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Probably the parts dealing with asylum.


Its getting abused to no end.


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They want the "nonviolent" illegals to stay.

Link?


Do you not see people rioting and fighting ICE agents?


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They are stating that they are 100% ok with unfettered illegal immigration Link?


See all votes for the D party.


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Ecuador?


Ecuador's immigration policy allows visa-free entry for many tourists for up to 90 days, requiring a passport valid for at least six months, but some nationalities need advance visas, including new transit visa rules for 45 countries as of late 2025.

These frickers getting arrested have been in the US for years. Ecuador is not a good example for whatever you were trying to get across.



EDIT: I missed one of your points about asylum laws.

The asylum law states that:

Applicants must file Form I-589, Application for Asylum, typically within one year of arrival, proving past persecution or a "well-founded fear" of future persecution on one of those grounds

Most apply when they get caught at the border or get caught overstaying their visas. Everything about the asylum process is getting abused.

This post was edited on 1/16/26 at 1:07 pm
Posted by Harry Boutte
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2024
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 1:17 pm to
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Do you not see people rioting and fighting ICE agents?


They weren't doing it while Obama was deporting millions of people. That tells me it's not about the deportations themselves, but about how the deportations are being conducted. You'd have to provide more direct evidence.
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See all votes for the D party.


Oh, so you're not being serious. Sorry.
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visa-free entry for many tourists for up to 90 days

That's not an immigration policy.


Following moving to Ecuador and obtaining one’s Residency Visa(s), in and of their first few years of life in our beautiful country, many an expat simply elects to remain as a permanent resident of Ecuador, and not jump through the next procedural hoop in sequence, which is of course to become an Ecuadorian citizen.

LINK

Emigration to Ecuador is extremely easy.
Posted by Deuces
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Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 1:21 pm to
My friend is Filipino and said a non-citizen can’t even own land there.

I looked it up and sure enough it’s true.

A non-citizen living in the Philippines can only rent.


Many countries have tough laws on immigrants and especially illegal immigrants.
This post was edited on 1/16/26 at 1:22 pm
Posted by SludgeFactory
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Posted on 1/16/26 at 1:21 pm to
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They weren't doing it while Obama was deporting millions of people. That tells me it's not about the deportations themselves, but about how the deportations are being conducted. You'd have to provide more direct evidence.


Can you link me to a news network covering Obama's deportations as signs of "fascism" and "nazis"?

Oh, you can't.

Congratulations, you fell for it.

Posted by Harry Boutte
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2024
3853 posts
Posted on 1/16/26 at 1:40 pm to
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Can you link me to a news network covering Obama's deportations as signs of "fascism" and "nazis"?

Even though you included this part of my post in your response, apparently you neglected to actually read it. I'll reiterate:
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it's not about the deportations themselves, but about how the deportations are being conducted.
Posted by PaperTiger
Ruston, LA
Member since Feb 2015
26404 posts
Posted on 1/16/26 at 3:22 pm to
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They weren't doing it while Obama was deporting millions of people. That tells me it's not about the deportations themselves, but about how the deportations are being conducted. You'd have to provide more direct evidence.


Republicans didn't have sanctuary cities. Its also well known that Ovama didn't actually deport that many. That administration counted turn around as deportations. Being deported from Minn and being turned around at the border are not equal in the slightest.

Playing with numbers (see also the way unemployed is calculated between the diff admins) doesn't really mean anything.



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Oh, so you're not being serious. Sorry.


Serious as a heart attack. Biden ran on undoing everything Trump did. Remain in Mexico was one big deal. Supposedly he received more votes than ever.

Pew center poll results

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86% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say the administration is doing too much, up 11 percentage points since March



Pew Center


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That's not an immigration policy.


Apologies. I misread. Thought you were talking about asylum laws.


Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
57204 posts
Posted on 1/16/26 at 5:01 pm to
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They weren't doing it while Obama was deporting millions of people. That tells me it's not about the deportations themselves, but about how the deportations are being conducted.


You mean who is deporting, not how. Don’t lie. The people objecting isn’t normal people, it’s radical leftists.
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