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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Our worst enemy
Date: 01/29/24 3:15 PM
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Which is why it's a good thing we have a border. All these people being arrested and detained for processing before being released for later adjudication of their claims are evidence that we have a border. It's a very different thing to claim that "if you have a border, but allow people access to judicial hearings on their cases, pretty soon you don't have a country."

Uh, huh. How do 10M additional people running around factor into that? We've added something like enough people to populate a large state by now.

But if asylees consisted predominantly of people gaming the system, they'd be losing a lot more of their cases. People game legal systems all the time, using an array of procedural tricks and claims....but whenever those people end up getting to an actual decision, they always lose. Because, again, they're gaming the system, not presenting legitimate claims.

Without looking into the details, how do you know they're not gaming the courts, or if the judges are just rubber-stamping them in? We've seen entire institutions essentially apply their execution through a partisan lens in the last few years, what's one more?

That's what you won't acknowledge, Dope - not only that people legitimately claim asylum in real life, but that most of the people that have been claiming asylum have legitimate and colorable claims. They don't always win, but so many of them do win that on the whole, the population can't be filled up with people gaming the system. These are, for the most part, legitimately people with a valid argument for claiming asylum in the U.S

And what exactly are these arguments?
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