Quote (Black XistenZ @ Aug 13 2024 08:07am)
Once the border guards use actual live ammunition and it becomes clear that trying to storm the border gets you killed, the deterrent will be sufficient. Only starting with it once the border is already in the process of being overrun obviously doesn't work.
It also makes a big difference whether the migrants are still in the country they're fleeing from, the country in which their life is in acute danger, or if they're already in a safe third country. In the latter case, they will be less willing to risk their life at the border just to improve their living conditions.
ahh yes so now we're pretending security agents shooting people at the border for a deterrent will go over? no chance, it would be an international scandal in 2024.
Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 13 2024 08:14am)
If the west actually wanted to close our borders, do you think we couldn't repel literal waves of thousands of humans? If they all collectively decided to take boats to China and try to wash up on the bohai bay and stroll into bejing, do you think China would let them?
They'd just get shot
Our immigration crisis is entirely a crisis of intent, not capability. The 'way' exists, the 'will' doesn't. We can tell you whether there are any polyps in the colons of the January 6th defendants in their own special jail wing, but we can't tell you the immigration status of Pedro folding my burrito at lunch. The actual logistics of securing our borders, even mass deportations, aren't particularly challenging, not from a technical standpoint. Certainly from a political one.
this is exactly correct, its a crisis of will. and that will takes time to change, in the USA it took about 4 years and hundreds of thousands of migrants. still take a strawpoll of US citizens and you'll find many still dont even understand the numbers, most likely think we have 10k-20k migrants per year, they dont realize thats more like a daily total. they'd be against catch and release if they knew how it works, but they dont know. the media has run a very effective smokescreen on the biden whitehouse's absolutely terrible policy. then the mouthpieces for the alarm are alex jones, tucker carlson, and trump. people many just discount out of hand. but that's how it starts, many of them were also against govt covid policy and vaccines, look at how that moved mainstream. same for inflation. like european fashion they're just a year or two ahead of the US general population.
thats the crux of EU migrant policy. during the crisis the will wasnt there. now it is, but time machines dont exist. the will is rarely there in real time.