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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: Umm ✹🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: The gullible MAGAs...
Date: 02/12/24 11:12 PM
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"At that point, his journey north is over. Mexican coyotes deposit migrants at the Rio Grande and instruct them to give themselves up to U.S. Border Patrol agents to claim asylum." - LA Times

"They're gaming the system and have for years." - Dope1

So you think that people coming to the U.S. to seek asylum who then somehow come to the U.S. and seek asylum are somehow gaming the system?

You don't understand what it means to claim asylum and what it takes to actually get asylum do you?

Reading what you are arguing I wonder if you think that all it takes to get entrance into the U.S. is that a foreigner just needs to show up at the U.S. border, ask for asylum, and then they will automatically be given a phone and a court date 8 years in the future.

It doesn't really work that way, you can't just tell some border agent some prewritten script without any of it being true and automatically get into the country. I cannot believe you would actually think that, but given some of the poor sources of information you use, I wouldn't be surprised at what you strange thing they convinced you to think. After all, you have repeatedly shown you don't understand the difference between encounters and actual people allowed into the country. You think they are the same.
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