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Nomadic View posted...

Balrog0 posted...

yes, pretty easily

Balrog0, for what its worth, I hold your opinions in high regard. You tend to have the opposite opinion on pretty much everything I do, but you articulate your position well.

Can you explain your answer here?

The issue here isn't structural, it's our political will to do so.

I'm responding narrowly to your question. Could we do all those things? Yeah. It wouldn't be complicated. Right now we already don't allow immigrants to participate in most of our social safety net programs. The issue is that we give their children birthright citizenship, and we have native citizens that are in households headed by immigrants.

One easy way to fix this? Stop giving people birthright citizenship.

I wouldn't support that but it is one possible solution

It's just like we could easily solve homelessness and a myriad of other problems that continue to plague our country and the world more generally. Our ability and knowledge to do so isn't lacking, its finding a solution that enough people can agree on that is the problem
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