Thread by @TheValuesVoter

If someone crosses our borders illegally, their nationality should have NOTHING to do with how they’re treated. If we deport people of one group, we should deport people from all. And if we don’t mass deport certain nationalities, we shouldn’t mass deport others either.

On the other hand, while I am sensitive to both the plight of the Haitian immigrants as well as to the anger some have that they’re being deported, there’s also this fact: you can’t just have thousands of people walking into a country at will. Not just our country. ANY country.

There are good people all over the world who are suffering and who deserve a better life. But that doesn’t mean that everybody in the world can just come here and stay here any time they want. And that applies to all people of any nationality and over any of our borders.

I don’t care if it’s a family from Ireland which is overstaying their visas, a Haitian family or a family from a Central American nation. We have to know who is in the country and we have to have an orderly way of allowing people to come here.

And I’m very pro-immigration. But that doesn’t mean that thousands of people can just walk in.

Of course, legally speaking, once people are in the country, they have a legal right to make an asylum claim. Anyone from anywhere once they’re anywhere in the country. It’s the law.

We need to have some creativity here. People are desperate and we want to help them. This is a nation of immigrants and if it weren’t for immigrants, our population would stagnate.

We need to have better ways of allowing people to make asylum claims and to access the process.

I also am a little suspicious about aspects of all of this. There are about 50 border crossings on the US/Mexico border. About 29 of them are in Texas. Why is all the traffic concentrated in this one place? All at the same time?

If people are coming from Haiti directly, that would make no sense at all, geographically - it’s 1,500 miles by sea and then another 500 miles by land to get to Del Rio. If they’re coming from South America, okay. But, again, why all at the same time and to the same exact point?

Part of my mind goes back to the assassination of former Haitian President Moise in July, a plot that involved more than two dozen foreign mercenaries.

I can’t help wonder if there could be some connection between these various events. I have no idea. But it just seems strange.