(September 22, 2021 at 6:46 pm)Angrboda Wrote: That's not the point. Seeking asylum should be an equal opportunity thing, not dependent on where you enter and what country you are coming from. Biden is doing it because it's a cost free way to make a big problem he has significantly smaller. It's for the benefit of the Democratic administration, not for us Americans
I agree. But regardless, it still is an issue of ability to process and volume. That is not what the GOP argues. They argue racism, xenophobia, otherism and white nationalism.
My x wife and I while had a mutual friend from Japan, who attended the same college we both graduated from. He was a nice guy. But he overstayed his visa and got deported back to Japan. I would have loved for him to stay if conditions had allowed it. But unlike the political refugees from Afghanistan, or the climate refugees from Mexico and Central and South America, our friend was far less likely to face poverty or death by sending him back.
We don't live in a utopia.
When the right wing GOP argues turning people away, it is nothing short of sick racism. When the left does it, it is matter of prioritizing counting the number of seats in the lifeboat. If people want more innocent people to get in and survive, I am all for that. But out of the two parties only one insists on gutting funding to everything to make sure Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Richard Branson have their sky dildos.
