Kurt is processed and kicked out of Mexico, still paranoid that there might be a plot against him. Read more →
Tag: immigration
Deported! Leaving Mexico the hard way: Part 8
While Kurt was locked up in Mexico, he saw a good perspective on a situation can change so much. Read more →
Deported! Leaving Mexico the hard way: Part 6
Locked up in the immigration centre, Kurt learns the importance of taking deep breaths. Read more →
Deported! Leaving Mexico the hard way: Part 5
Even permanent residents get detained by immigration in Mexico Read more →
Deported! Leaving Mexico the hard way: Part 4
Parts 0 1 2 3 Time was a blur in the immigration centre. Perhaps it was still the first day when I was called in to speak to the consulate. My contact there was Sylvia, a Mexican woman who had never been to Australia, but spoke fluent English. “Hello Kurt. Take a seat. How are you?” -Hello. I’m a little… Read more →
Deported! Leaving Mexico the hard way: Part 3
Kurt explains his passion for Mexico, and why it was meaningless in the face of a bureaucrat. Read more →
Authority is unlawful
Authority is not law. Reason and empathy are Law. Read more →
Deported! Leaving Mexico the hard way: Part 1
Kurt maintains a positive attitude while getting arrested by immigration agents Read more →
Deported: Getting kicked out of Mexico
Kurt explains a little about getting deported from Mexico Read more →
Trump’s wall: A futile conversation
Maybe there are still some arguments about Trump’s border wall which I haven’t heard yet… But the ones that I have heard are rather pathetic. The wall conversation seems to go like this:
We need a wall to keep people out to stop them taking welfare.
Really? Do naturalised citizens actually take more welfare than natural born citizens on average? Do you have any statistics to back it up?
Hm I uh… I do have some statistics about how immigrants are more likely to vote Democrat.
Alright, that’s something – not exactly what I was looking for though. You don’t have statistics about why they vote Democrat. You know, even if people come to work in your country, they don’t need to have citizenship, voting rights or welfare. People can get residency or working visas.
Ohhh yeah… I’m sure all the socialist politicians will maintain that rule even if it costs them votes.
Okay… but if you’re going to play that card, there’s nothing you can do politically to solve this problem. A wall certainly won’t help. The socialist politicians will just fix things so people can walk right over.
Alright alright, we can go around like this forever. If we didn’t have welfare, we wouldn’t need a wall. But we have, so we do.
So building a wall that costs billions of dollars is a perfectly reasonable, rational and possible thing to expect, but attempting to curb welfare is impractical and impossible. I see.
Here’s an interesting article which talks about why such a wall would be pretty useless: 8 things you need to know about Trump’s wall
