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Originally Posted by TOMAHAWK9521
I'm going to toss this hand grenade out there. (hoping it won't get tossed back into my foxhole)
How about we just call everyone coming across the border illegally, refugees?
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Truth be told, I think that's an accurate assessment. In time...a couple years, maybe?....it may be seen as prescient.
How the U.S. can cope, and whether it can cope, with large numbers of desperate people is the question. Especially if the situation that drives them here is long-term, such that there is little prospect of their departure.
Neither the public treasury nor private charity will have the capacity to support them. There will be no jobs for them. But sending them back will be a near-equivalent to a death sentence.
And then there are the politics...those are likely to be angry and divisive.