I’m happy you got the care you deserve.

Should have said: 25% of $60K is $15K.

Yeah I understood what you meant.

Medicare covered 45k of your bill and the VA the other 15k.

As I said, glad you got the care you needed and financially you remain stable.

Dang that ground is a classic hobo streets.

This post was edited by Haoqdlam on Jan 22 2024 10:13am

Refusal to enforce a border is the direct cause of this. If migrants believed that we actually had a border down there, a large portion of these people wouldn't actually embark on the journey.

Thanks. All seems to be well. The COPD is a pain, but everything else seems to be working well. :-)

This breaks my heart, we should let all those people in.

Afditionally I think america should Import the super poor of India, a demographic of about 270 million.

It's the only humane thing to do and im sure there will be no bad consequences from it

This post was edited by duffman316 on Jan 22 2024 10:58am

A wall is largely only symbolic. The border is 1900 miles? Any solution that involves actively patrolling 1900 miles of terrain is a losing strategy and at best a sticking plaster.

Addressing the systemic causes of mass migration is the only worthwhile strategy. That being said its difficult to deter people from wanting a better life and the comparative opportunity of the United States and for example Venezuela are never going to be comparable.
An actual deterrent would be required and perhaps an advance or application of existing technology to police the border.

The systemic cause of migration is economic poverty and political instability. Those are incredibly difficult challenges to address even when you're in complete control of a place (see Iraq), the notion that we're going to solve Mexican / Central American gang violence and endemic poverty by starting a few aid programs and signing a few cheques is complete nonsense. The scale of the undertaking would be the occupation of Northern Mexico and the summary execution of gang members (i.e. anyone with a tattoo). That's unlikely for some pretty obvious reasons.

The problem with enforcement today is that they're being released directly into the United States. Remain in Mexico was effective precisely because it denied economic migrants the opportunity to slip into the United States, where they can skip their court dates and rely on Biden admin "guidance" to ICE to avoid deportation.

Hire more men, build a bigger wall, dig deeper ditches. If you need to spend $50 billion to solve a problem that goes back decades, do it.

Who said few aid programs and few cheques?

The fact remains, it is the only way to prevent immigration. Build a bigger wall is the most cope phrase ever deployed.