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Liberty Island is not part of New Jersey. Yes, it is surrounded by New Jersey’s WATERS, but the island itself was ceded to New York as part of a settlement between the two states. This was in exchange for New York dropping claims to the entirety of the Hudson River (like the way Maryland has all of the Potomac River instead of splitting it with Virginia). CGP Grey has a pretty good video on this.
Belated welcome back, excellent stuff as always! I'm an American who speaks Spanish and lives in Canada, and I can't help but think how much the language/"culture" (lol and let's be honest, race) differential dictates the warmth or coolness of the reception that folks crossing the border receive. It seems to me that folks from mexico, central, and south america are "othered" so hard because it's easier to do on visual alone. Having a language barrier that sits between americans and "others" makes it a lot easier for folks to campaign on a manufactured threat, without hearing the truth or reality of a situation from the "others" directly.
It's so nice to hear people saying the same things about El Paso, Juarez, and the real problems with the immigration system, like there not being enough judges, that we in El Paso have been saying for years from someone else. Thank you so much for making this video!
A few things: 1. Canada is a developed nation like the US Mexico is a developing nation 2. It's not Mexico that's the problem, it's Mexicos neighbors that are the problem (namely Honduras and El Salvador) 3. The wall is to prevent migrants from said unruly Mexican neighbor nation's from treking across Mexico to come here illegally 4. Since Canada doesn't have any neighbors aside from the US its not as necessary to have a wall.
No America is not a developed nation like Canada. America has a gun culture, racism, no solidarity, persons can die because they dont have money for medical care. Also this country is incubator of coronavirus. This is Canada who need to build a wall against them
Why not the both Canada and United States governments invest in having inferred cameras that can detect drugs and human trafficking from every vehicles that crosses the Canadian and the united states border locations and other easy locations to where asylum seekers are traveling between Canada and United States
I thought Liberty Island (evidently home to the Statue of Liberty) is in New York (Empire State). Ellis Island (home to European immigration & other kinds of immigration) is in New York AND New Jersey (Garden State).
No border wall with Canada. We can trust them, and they can trust us. Besides, we used to just be able to walk across into Canada for a while until 9/11
This comes down to race. Keep the brown people out and let the white people in. I mean, that’s a very easy conclusion to draw considering the stark difference in border security and assets for such between our Northern and Southern Border.
EXACTLY what I was thinking. The only reason we'd want a wall between the U.S. and Canada would be if the U.S. went full-on Hunger Games/1984/Handmaid's Tale and tons of people were trying to get OUT. The goal would be to not LOSE Americans...rather than to not ADD Canadians.
Which part of Canada has drugs produced by Colombia and central America smuggled through it to the USA? How exactly does MS-13 pass around America to come in through Canada? --a Mexican citizen
Whatever inhibitors we have to put up to stop people with the incorrect or lack of papers in my eyes is worth it. If people truly want to become a law abiding citizen of the United States of America, they should start by entering this country the correct way. Crossing illegally shows a direct disregard for the laws and policies we have in place. I understand the terrible positions people in these central and South American countries are put in but, the United States has limited resources and can’t afford to let everyone in that wants to come here. With the amount of people wanting to become American citizens sadly a backlog of immigration cases is the inevitable state of things.
This episode shows that our system currently doesn’t have enough resources to allow for a reasonable amount of asylum seekers sometimes leading to wait times over three years. It’s more about making legal immigration something that is possible so people aren’t left with illegal immigration as a last resort. On the other hand it also presents the issues we face with the cartel and how they exploit innocent people on the border.
Well, yes. We should have borders. For jurisdiction to make sense, you've gotta know wherein that authority lies. If all borders are gone, to whom does tax money go for public utilities? By what laws are criminals to be tried or lawsuits to be brought? People and culture are different everywhere, and a law for one place may not be right for another. If no borders, where is the legislative headquarters? DC? Brussels? Beijing? I don't trust any of them to enact common sense policy, so where do we stand after that? A concentration of power leads to authoritarianism, and the diversification of power leads to autocracy. Which would you like? Freedom, or someone telling you to jump and you asking "How high?"
The US may as well build walls on the sides as well and then put a roof on top to cap it off and fester alone inside. I'm sure Trump and people like him would love that.
