moron I have a question for you. it's possible you've articulated your pov on this already and I've just missed it, but I am curious

Let's say in 2026, only 1 person in the entire world wanted to emigrate to the US and they were allowed to do so. I think you'd get 99.99% agreement among US citizens that this would not be a problem in any way, let alone destabilizing to US society.

if in 2026 a civil war broke out in China and 100 million people tried to escape by coming to the United States, illegally if necessary, maybe not quite 99.99%, but some significant percentage of US citizens would express some concern about the impact that would have on our society, and feel justified in that concern or perhaps even opposition.

So somewhere in between those two extremes of zero immigration and tens of millions of illegal migrants is a reasonable immigration policy that most Americans could support.

What do you think that policy looks like, and how much illegal immigration do you think is acceptable

[Edited on November 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM. Reason : if it'd be easier to explore this space via a video call or over coffee/beer, lmk]

11/23/2025 8:35:29 PM

No amount of illegal immigration is acceptable. If we’re talking about ideals, humans have been migrating around the world for hundreds of thousands of years especially to seek a better life. If there’s some crisis in China that needs 100 million people fleeing, it’s our duty to absorb as many as our agriculture and waste management and housing systems can take. Simultaneously we should work with every other country to share the load, and then work with whatever in China is causing people to flee— this is more or less how the refugee system used to work.

11/23/2025 9:36:25 PM

gracias

11/23/2025 9:50:22 PM