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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lapsody ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The gullible MAGAs...
Date: 02/12/24 2:46 PM
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t no longer accounts for today's reality that massive numbers of immigrants can and do game the system. It needs revision.

It needs revision, but I don't think massive numbers of immigrants are gaming the system. Most are coming here and taking their best shot for a better life. I don't call that gaming the system. To me, someone claiming asylum who presents his best case and is turned down is not gaming the system. To me a hypothetical of gaming the system would be to claim being a part of a group in your area that are being imprisoned and killed, and you've never been a part of that group, don't have any real credible fear, but it's impossible to tell you weren't part of that group.

One thing I did note was that the new criteria in the defunct bill allowed us to turn away someone if there was violence in their country, but they could move to a non-violent part of their country and came here instead.

I don't think someone taking a shot at a better life is "gaming the system". I do grant some do probably game the system though.
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