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      Vatican City is 109 acres, and your genius idea is to ship thousands of Central American refugees over there, seemingly as punishment for the Pope calling us out on failing our responsibility to help these people.

      What a very Republican idea…

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          I’m actually a democrat

          If you are advocating for human trafficking, you are a fucking fascist.

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              Amazing that you think creating shelters for Americans displaced by natural disaster is in any way comparable to forcibly deporting asylum seekers to Europe because the Pope called us out.

              Disaster relief isn’t human trafficking, obviously. Trafficking asylum seekers to another continent absolutely is.

              People are coming to our country begging for help, and your solution is to kick them out and ship them thousands of miles away. If you take offense to being called a fascist, consider not being one.

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                  What a baffling response…

                  They have seen an opportunity and have migrated here themselves. If Italy offered an opportunity, then they would probably migrate there, as well.

                  We were talking about Vatican City, not Italy. They are different countries (regardless of what you may think). Italy is 116,631 square miles. Vatican City is 0.17 square miles (686,064x smaller).

                  These migrants are so destitute that they are fighting malnutrition and exhaustion to trek on foot across Central America and Mexico to the US southern border. You really think they’re apt to buy plane tickets to Europe? What are you fucking smoking?

                  America has laws against illegal immigration, but no one respects the laws in America.

                  Seeking asylum isn’t illegal immigration. Turning asylum seekers away is against international law.

                  Everyone picks and chooses which laws they want to demand be enforced and they want herd immunity for the ones they break.

                  No clue what you mean by “herd immunity” (a medical term), but “choosing which laws are enforced” has a name: it’s called “Democracy”. It’s pretty cool, you should read about it sometime.

                  Migrants could cross the boarder (sic) with a passport and ask for asylum. That wouldn’t be illegal immigration. 

                  That is literally what they are doing, maybe minus the passport part, but you don’t need one to seek asylum. Requiring one, as mentioned before, would be a violation of international law.

                  Honestly, you really need to better understand what you are talking about before speaking further on any of this. You don’t seem to know the difference between immigration and asylum seeking, and you characterize these migrants as being “Mexican”, when the vast majority are from Central America. You don’t know the difference between the European countries you think should help us shoulder the burden of helping refugees from countries that WE DESTABILIZED! Fuck, you can’t even spell the word “border” (a common trait amongst racist anti-immigration folks - ignorance was never a big fan of proper spelling).

                  You just seem to have a hateful opinion of the Latin American refugees that ask us for help, and want to brainstorm ways to keep them out of the country…