The Migrant Agenda

I'm just saying, their plan does not differ from mine that much. I was simply already here.

You are using the wrong term, it's not racist, it's xenophobic

If it's xenophobic, they would discriminate against white immigrants too
- Nah.
  Xenophobia is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
  -Wikipedia
IMO with regards to the GOP this is just hair splitting

Few years ago there was a thing called "la reconquista" basically preaching this Havent seen or heard of it again til this dredged it back up

If you don't remember. According to the Tordesillas treaty, most of the Americas belong to Spain and some to Portugal. So, gtfo, British invader. /S

Not much need for a wall right now, but I think an unmanageably large volume of climate refugees is something that could reasonably happen in the coming years.

Seems like a great argument for addressing climate change as a priority.
- Definitely needed, but we're past the point where we can expect to avoid some level of catastrophic situations.
Wall doesn't solve that.
Killing the rich and ending fossil fuels might.
You're assuming your own country is impervious to climate change. It's the dirty poors bringing their problems to you, right? How dare they.
- Well no, that assumption isn't needed, the US being negatively impacted by climate change would make this even harder to deal with (lower crop production, local displacement from coastal cities, etc). But the fact is it's not at the equator, where the problems will be the worst, where there may be growing regions that can no longer support human life, where this growing pressure has caused wars, and the direction people will be fleeing is away from the equator. In that situation will we really be in a position to address those people's problems? How many of them before things just break down? 50 million? 300? It's about viability and survival, not contempt.

This argument would be valid if people were illegally immigrating via visa overstaying. But since we know the large majority are doing it via crossing the border this argument is crap.

I hope you’re being sarcastic, because visa overstays IS the most common form of illegal immigration into the country. https://rollcall.com/2019/02/01/border-wall-debate-ignores-biggest-source-of-illegal-immigration-visa-overstays/
- Man it's nearly impossible to find an unbiased source on this. I even found one with a .gov extension, but then saw it was a Republican anti immigration site in fine print.
  Best I could do was one from a news station in Arizona that has citations within it. I did not go so far as to check each citation in the article.
  Anyway, it's from December 2023 which maaaaaaybe would be recent enough for your antagonist and it says that of ALL illegal immigrants currently living in the US, 40% of them entered on a visa and overstayed.
  Another thing I kept seeing on all sources of immigration was the word "encounter"
  When we hear of many millions of immigrants each (insert opinionated time period here - year, month, week, whatever), it uses the word encounter rather than the word crossing, and especially not the word presently residing.
  I'm replying to you with this rather than your antagonist, because I feel it would be useless to say anything at all, regardless of recency or veracity, to the latter.
- Did you notice the year of your article?
You are exactly opposite of reality.
You know that not all undocumented immigrants are brown right? That there are white Europeans who just never left?

Coming into the country legally, with a passport even, is not an issue.

Most undocumented immigrants in the US enter legally then never leave.
The idea that most cross the border on foot isn't supported by data.
The majority of illegal immigrants enter legally as say tourists then just don't go back(becoming illegal). The other main option is any sort of boat because the US has a gigantic coastline. If they didn't find jobs in the US or could make a living in their home country they wouldn't try and come to the US. But they get hired to do those jobs Americans don't want to do, which ends up being a lot of seasonal work and more unhealthy work (like grinding countertops).
- Socialism, ironically, is the best solution to such a right wing issue.
  You could eliminate the vast majority of illegal immigration and scrap minimum wage by implementing a livable UBI.
  Why pay an immigrant more money in cash when you could pay a citizen less because their basic needs are already covered?
Adding to what all the others said, majority of those who cross the border on foot are asylum seekers, and even if they don't have documents, they are still in the country legally until the court makes a decision on their asylum claim.
I legally entered from Canada on a plane, passport and implied tourist visa. I then overstayed my visa, and was an illegal immigrant for a while.
A wall along the southern border doesn’t do shit.
- You entered legally, great. So the US knew who you were and that you were entering the country.
  Shame on you for over staying though.
Are you sure about that? Looks like that is the main way illegals get into the country
- "Illegals" lol