Border query: What if refugees trended muslim?

If Mexico was a Muslim nation the entire border would be militarized as much as feasible give its size. I’d bet money on that.

 

I would bet money on it too

 

I think it is a great topic. I would be far more concerned if the vast majority of the immigrants coming in were from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq. Perhaps that makes me slightly Islamophobic, but I’m 38 so I grew up with 9/11 hitting right when my political views were forming. I’ve also hired Marcus Luttrell (survivor in the Lone Survivor movie) as a motivational speaker for corporate events. He literally saw the worst of radical Islam (tortured by the Taliban) and the best of moderate Islam (he would be dead if Afghan villagers had not saved him). I’m not going to share his view as his twin brother is a Congressman, but there are huge differences culturally (that aren’t all due to religion) of individuals coming from that region of the world versus mostly central and South America.

Another experience, I have mentioned here before, is being on the board of a further processing manufacturer of poultry in Alabama, which in English means they double friend food for Sonic chicken tenders and Panda Express before sending it away in bulk. We literally couldn’t keep the shop occupied without loosening I-9 / E-Verify policies. Americans simply won’t cut chicken in the same motion in a chicken plant that smells like chicken shit and chemicals for 8 hours a day for $9-13 dollars an hour.

But personal antidotes aside, your article has more than enough stats to make me feel like I am not a bigot. 90% of public shooting in Sweden are committed by immigrants. 65% of public welfare goes towards the same group. 5% of government spending goes towards refugees. That is a failure in Sweden’s policy regardless of who the immigrants pray to and the reason we don’t have nearly that number of refugees (although we had a much bigger role in creating the need for people to flee the Middle East). We won’t even take the people from Afghanistan that helped us fight the Taliban, which I cold heartedly agree with.

So I guess my thoughts are as follows: 1) Dems do need to create a stronger, more secure southern border.
2) Trump, and a concerning number of Republicans, have intentionally kept the border unsecure to stir up fear and hate to get votes.
3) Americans need more education on this topic and less partisanship and non-sense coming from Trump.
4) Immigration has benefited our economy, but I’d be open to seeing data that suggests otherwise.
5) Fentanyl is the problem on the southern border. It’s real and ISIS cruising into El Paso in mass is hypothetical. It’s a bigger problem than previous drug scares (crack in the 80’s) because it is so potent. Street corner pharmacists simply can’t cut in the correct amount because it is microscopic and that is leading to thousands and thousands of deaths and destroying communities. We need a two front war on fentanyl of keeping it out and educating our citizens of the dangers of buying any street drug b/c that shit is in everything these days. Don’t care if previous wars on drugs were a bust, you can’t not try.