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they're illegal aliens - not migrants.
entering the country outside of an approved border crossing = illegal. attempting to emigrate by illegally crossing the border into another country gets you locked up and deported back to your country of origin. non-citizens who illegally enter the country have no rights in the country they're illegally entering.
there are perfectly legal methods of obtaining a valid visa or other immigration documentation. if you choose to ignore that and illegally enter the country you're going to end up in a cage.
Are asylum-seekers illegal? Anyone crossing the border could be an asylum seeker.
"To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process the person must be physically present in the United States... People can apply for asylum regardless of how they arrived in the US"
sure, they could be but they arent.
You tried to make a blanket statement that they are all illegal when entering surreptitiously is a valid way of making an asylum claim.
Extremely difficult legal methods that rarely work out, especially if you're poor and not from Europe.
You might as well just say, "only rich people should be allowed to emigrate."
lies. one of my colleague's wife just got citizenship recently & they're from the middle east
Okay, what does that have to do with anything I said? Is she poor? I doubt it.
they're not rich - they've got 5 kids and they're not from Europe. I was just refuting your point because you're wrong. accept it
I said nothing about citizenship, so...
ah, deflecting? well played
How am I deflecting? I was talking about immigration, not citizenship.