2024-11-06T21:32:27.286628 | 🔗
Get the people who snuck in out and get the people who lied to get in out! It’s that simple. No sneaking in. No lying to get in. We don’t want you, and that’s not the way to immigrate to America. Some people might accuse this policy of being unempathetic. I do feel bad for some people who will get caught up in this — maybe we’ll make an exception, maybe we won’t. But this should be what the policy. The firm policy. So many rules are firmly held against Americans, cutting us off from benefits and holding us back for missing a day on a deadline or not filling out some form. We need to hold the line at the border too. I do feel bad for people like potential asylum-seeker or Elon Musk or Melania Trump who made a small mistake decades ago, a small lie maybe it was a deliberate lie, a lie by omission, or an inadvertent lie, but a lie nonetheless, that would be caught up by this firm policy. We might be lenient and allow them to pay a very very large fine to stay — given that it was so long ago and given the work they’ve done for the community — or maybe we’ll deport them. Case-by-case basis.