Illegal Immigration solution -- Make Illegals Work as Slaves to Build a Wall

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Oct 30, 2004
11,442
32
91
I wonder why white people don't just all return to Europe, Asians go back to Asia, Black people return to Africa, and let the Hispanics (partial descendents of Americas) just have their land back?

It makes total sense.

Because they have been living here in the United States for decades and long-since planted roots? The argument that the white people stole the land from the Indians 200 years ago has no bearing on today's situation. No one who was alive then is alive today. It sounds high-brow and intellectual, but it's nothing more than cute drivel.

The fact of the matter is that the United States of America exists and is populated by American citizens. The issue is not whether they should leave and immigrate to other countries. The issue is--"what policy is in the rational selfish economic interests of the American people?" That is the issue that the pro-immigration people (yourself perhaps?) like to evade.
 
Last edited:

theeedude

Lifer
Feb 5, 2006
35,787
6,197
126
What do people think of this solution to our illegal immigration problem:

The penalty for being caught in the nation illegally will be to spend 6 months working as a slave constructing a 50 foot high, electrified wall on the southern border. Discuss.

----------

It probably wouldn't work since Americans find slavery (even when a serious law has been violated) detestable and would be horrified by whatever means would be needed to keep the illegals productive. Still, it's a fun thought and seems like poetic justice in a way.

I have better solution, we'll use you as slave labor to do jobs illegals currently do, then we can send them home.
 
Nov 29, 2006
15,834
4,368
136
I would be fine with that assuming we in turn deport them when the job is done. I am pro immigration. I am not pro-illegal immigration. Dont do the crime if you cant do the time.
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
70,150
5
0
I think the idea has merit. Those who are unfit but hot could be used as sexual slaves. And illegals' children could be put in sweat shops because really even a 6 year old has some utility. The only question is what to do about the ugly and the physically unable and for those I'd say they seem a lot cheaper than a crash test doll, so there's the use for them.

BTW I DO think that ambulatory inmates in many cases should be "forced" to work. Their work would gain them privileges, but if they say screw you and do nothing they still must have some elementary things like room and board because otherwise, frankly, you're probably the guy sending out birthday invitations to Kim Jong Il and you don't want to be that guy.
Can we put a sign up that says "Arbeit macht frei", or would that be in poor taste.
Translate to Spanish and I can see it helping.
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
70,150
5
0
I would be fine with that assuming we in turn deport them when the job is done. I am pro immigration. I am not pro-illegal immigration. Dont do the crime if you cant do the time.
As a legal immigrant let me assure you that if I felt like a lapse in my legality, be it through my own fault or a bureaucratic oversight, had me running wire in Arizona you can bet your ass I'd not be here.
 
Oct 30, 2004
11,442
32
91
I have better solution, we'll use you as slave labor to do jobs illegals currently do, then we can send them home.

For clarification, I'm not opposed to having a guest worker program solely for agricultural jobs, but the government could then control who enters the country.

As for many of those jobs the illegals do--such as construction, janitorial work, and meat packing--the jobs that Americans supposedly won't do--I suspect that Americans would do them if they received American free market compensation for them.

Senseamp, why don't you make an argument to explain to us why mass immigration benefits Americans in light of some of the points I've already made--population explosion and higher resource costs, environmental degradation, wage depression, and displacing Americans from jobs they might otherwise do? Please consider the invisible back-end costs and not just the front-end costs.
 

nobodyknows

Diamond Member
Sep 28, 2008
5,474
0
0
I don't think even a politician could concoct a worse idea.

Yet the vast majority of Americans are against illegal immigration. If we let in the cheap laborers then let's let in the cheap doctors, engineers, etc. Let's put this wage race to 3rd world wages in high gear.
 

MJinZ

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 2009
8,192
0
0
Because they have been living here in the United States for decades and long-since planted roots? The argument that the white people stole the land from the Indians 200 years ago has no bearing on today's situation. No one who was alive then is alive today. It sounds high-brow and intellectual, but it's nothing more than cute drivel.

The fact of the matter is that the United States of America exists and is populated by American citizens. The issue is not whether they should leave and immigrate to other countries. The issue is--"what policy is in the rational selfish economic interests of the American people?" That is the issue that the pro-immigration people (yourself perhaps?) like to evade.

^ Correct. Call a Spade a Spade and just tell it like it is. Americans don't want no stinkin' brown people back in the States.

The problem is this that Americans are retarded. Build a fucking Great Wall of Mexico and see how many illegal immigrants get across. Oh wait, Americans would buy cheap shit from China and fight a war in the Middle East, let Goldman Ballsacks ransack the Economy instead.

Take the moral high road and let the Indians return to the land that was once theirs. There is no way USA is a land of the White People, short of military supremecy.

Coming back to reality, and just admit you don't want more fucking people sharing the land that isn't really yours and you just don't want to play sharesies anymore.

Or, stay the route and we're fucked anyway.
 
Last edited:

nobodyknows

Diamond Member
Sep 28, 2008
5,474
0
0
^ Correct. Call a Spade a Spade and just tell it like it is. Americans don't want no stinkin' brown people back in the States.

The problem is this that Americans are retarded. Build a fucking Great Wall of Mexico and see how many illegal immigrants get across. Oh wait, Americans would buy cheap shit from China and fight a war in the Middle East, let Goldman Ballsacks ransack the Economy.

Take the moral high road and let the Indians return to the land that was once theirs. There is no way USA is a land of the White People, short of military supremecy.

Coming back to reality, and just admit you don't want more fucking people sharing the land that isn't really yours and you just don't want to play sharesies anymore.

Or, stay the route and we're fucked anyway.

LOL@U and your trolling BS.
 
Oct 30, 2004
11,442
32
91
^ Correct. Call a Spade a Spade and just tell it like it is. Americans don't want no stinkin' brown people back in the States.

Is that the best you can do? Claim that economic and environmental arguments are the same as racist xenophobia? Are you that intellectually impotent? Some people are racist, some are concerned about cultural issues, and then a great many are concerned about the economic issues with an enlightened minority being concerned about population and environmental issues.

The problem is this that Americans are retarded. Build a fucking Great Wall of Mexico and see how many illegal immigrants get across. Oh wait, Americans would buy cheap shit from China and fight a war in the Middle East, let Goldman Ballsacks ransack the Economy instead.

I agree with you that we have other serious problems with Global Labor Arbitrage and the regulation of businesses and banks besides just illegal immigration.

Take the moral high road and let the Indians return to the land that was once theirs. There is no way USA is a land of the White People, short of military supremecy.

What happened 200 years ago shouldn't be allowed to have any bearing on the situation today. Everyone who lived 200 years ago is long since dead. There's no one left to punish or to compensate or repatriate.

Coming back to reality, and just admit you don't want more fucking people sharing the land that isn't really yours and you just don't want to play sharesies anymore.

I admit that I'm in favor of population stabilization. Why don't you argue against that and explain why population explosion is a good thing for us? Tell us why a higher population, more pollution, and a greater demand for natural resources is a good thing for the American people--make a real argument instead using cutesy language like "sharesies".

What do you think is the proper role of the United States government? To protect and to pursue the interests of American citizens or to serve the interests of people in other countries?
 

werepossum

Elite Member
Jul 10, 2006
29,873
463
126
^ Correct. Call a Spade a Spade and just tell it like it is. Americans don't want no stinkin' brown people back in the States.

The problem is this that Americans are retarded. Build a fucking Great Wall of Mexico and see how many illegal immigrants get across. Oh wait, Americans would buy cheap shit from China and fight a war in the Middle East, let Goldman Ballsacks ransack the Economy instead.

Take the moral high road and let the Indians return to the land that was once theirs. There is no way USA is a land of the White People, short of military supremecy.

Coming back to reality, and just admit you don't want more fucking people sharing the land that isn't really yours and you just don't want to play sharesies anymore.

Or, stay the route and we're fucked anyway.

Good news - you're definitely winning the contest to squeal "Racist!" in the most ways.

Bad news - there's not actually a contest.
 

MJinZ

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 2009
8,192
0
0
Is that the best you can do? Claim that economic and environmental arguments are the same as racist xenophobia? Are you that intellectually impotent? Some people are racist, some are concerned about cultural issues, and then a great many are concerned about the economic issues with an enlightened minority being concerned about population and environmental issues.



I agree with you that we have other serious problems with Global Labor Arbitrage and the regulation of businesses and banks besides just illegal immigration.



What happened 200 years ago shouldn't be allowed to have any bearing on the situation today. Everyone who lived 200 years ago is long since dead. There's no one left to punish or to compensate or repatriate.

Who the fuck do you think the Mexicans and Latinos are? Dark Europeans? Dark people from Spain?

They are MIXED NATIVE AMERICANS or descendants of them.

No one said anything about Racist Xenophobia. If you are too stupid to realize that Economic arguments are the same as "keep the fuck out of our newly conquered land"....
I admit that I'm in favor of population stabilization. Why don't you argue against that and explain why population explosion is a good thing for us? Tell us why a higher population, more pollution, and a greater demand for natural resources is a good thing for the American people--make a real argument instead using cutesy language like "sharesies".

It isn't GOOD for us. WHy the fuck would it be? If it was good for us, why the hell wouldn't be want it?

My point is to get the fuck out of your holier than thou chair, call a spade a spade, and just admit you don't want to share the land your ancestors conquered. Is that too hard to understand? Do I give a shit? No, I don't want to share it either.

I'm not naive or retarded enough to think anti-immigration is any more noble than military exercises.

What do you think is the proper role of the United States government? To protect and to pursue the interests of American citizens or to serve the interests of people in other countries?

Yea, no shit. But don't pretend we are Angels while we leave the peons to burn in Hell (Mexico). You can't have your cake and eat it too.
 

MJinZ

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 2009
8,192
0
0
Good news - you're definitely winning the contest to squeal "Racist!" in the most ways.

Bad news - there's not actually a contest.

LOL... don't even get me started. Anti - illegal Immigration is not racist at all.
 

StageLeft

No Lifer
Sep 29, 2000
70,150
5
0
i think a lot of americans don't want no beaners around them their lands but honestly if the US abuted some country of filthy whites--say, East European/Russian-types, then people would want to keep them out just as much, so I think although there is some degree of racism a lot of it is truly economic or if not just that a sense of an unwanted cultural influence.
 

MJinZ

Diamond Member
Nov 4, 2009
8,192
0
0
i think a lot of americans don't want no beaners around them their lands but honestly if the US abuted some country of filthy whites--say, East European/Russian-types, then people would want to keep them out just as much, so I think although there is some degree of racism a lot of it is truly economic or if not just that a sense of an unwanted cultural influence.

Correct, most of this is not racist (though obviously some of the more obvious and vocal ones are).
 

Nemesis 1

Lifer
Dec 30, 2006
11,366
2
0
Great news MN is going to try and pass Immigration laws model after AR(AZ). The resistance Labor Unions . How can labor union back Illegals? Is a contradition in what their suppose to do . Our full team is starting petition for passage on Monday . I know 100s of illegals and we can make it so problable cause occurrs to check documents is met.

Man I hope this goes threw.
 
Last edited: