re: Jeff Landry wants to send Louisiana National Guard to U.S.-Mexico border

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RFK

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Another liberal offended by Landry. He's doing the right thing.

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Jeff Landry wants to send Louisiana National Guard to U.S.-Mexico border

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Good. Glad to see he's taking the side of the states here. His silence was disconcerting.

I don’t know that, but even if there is such a law, it has no teeth. The SCRA is a federal law that applies uniformly across the U.S. There is no way a Louisiana state law could have even close to the same effect as the sweeping protections of the SCRA.

And again, this is on top of guardsmen under state activation making essentially slave wages. Unless activated by POTUS, they don’t make the active duty pay rates.

Imagine your typical guardsman who is working to support his family in Louisiana, eeking by only to be told he has to “deploy” to Texas and take a pay cut with no SCRA protections so his governor can pad his personal political ambitions.

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sending our resources there while his constituents can’t afford homeowners insurance.

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If you can't afford a house then sell it.

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As illegal immigration has only continued to rise since then, it's safe to assume we're somewhere over 100k in Louisiana. That would be something along the lines of 2x the entire Monroe/West Monroe population.

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1/4 the population of New Orleans and an insignificant percentage of the total state population.

This is why it’s not a priority for many Louisianans. We have much more pressing issues here.

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What number of illegals is an acceptable number to you?

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It’s hard to quantify, considering every one of our ancestors came here to seize land that belonged to other people and killed them or forced them off the land. I guess the coincidence of our being born here means we deserve to be here more than others, but I can’t really quantify the number of undeserving people that should get to come here.

Is this not something we should let the market regulate? (Serious question btw, not being glib)

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Is this not something we should let the market regulate?

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Anyone who doesn’t grasp the hazards that come with allowing “the market” to determine how many undocumented, untraceable, unvaccinated people enter the country from god knows where isn’t a serious person.

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It’s hard to quantify, considering every one of our ancestors came here to seize land that belonged to other people and killed them or forced them off the land.

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More Americans descend from immigrants arriving in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century than from the original colonial settlements.

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Explain why he's wrong.

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A decade is simply an unacceptable time frame

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It’s hard to know when it’s preferable to let the free market dictate policy and when it’s not preferable to let the feee market dictate policy here.

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No it isn’t. Only a moron or a dishonest person would even try to make that ridiculous statement.

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And since when is being unvaccinated viewed negatively on this board?

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Since no one wants their children getting polio or measles or something worse from some “migrants” from South Sudan or China that followed your preferred “market determined” system of allowing people into the country unabated.

Cool attempted covid-vaccine gotcha though. Par for the course for an emotional liberal woman.

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was ok to immigrate when our ancestors did it but it’s not ok now?

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Very very few people disagree with legal immigration. I have no idea what you’re talking about. Only very emotional liberal women support unfettered illegal immigration though.

Again, I’ll state that anyone who supports unfettered illegal immigration isn’t a serious person.

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Very very few people disagree with immigration.

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This is the part where you say it was ok for our ancestors to just walk i onto the country without documentation but it’s not ok anymore because we changed the rules.

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Only very emotional liberal women support unfettered illegal immigration though.

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I was just thinking how emotional you are while reading your statements before this one. I’m not even making that up. Your responses are dripping with emotion but I assume you lack the self-awareness to understand that.

I wouldn’t say I support unfettered immigration but I certainly support realistic and achievable pathways to legal immigration.

Blaming the people coming here to be easily hired and exploited by corporations also seems really silly. Instead of blaming the systems providing the incentives to come here without documentation, we blame the people taking advantage of better opportunities.

It’s akin to blaming people for being on welfare instead of blaming the system that created welfare.

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This is the part where you say it was ok for our ancestors to just walk i onto the country without documentation but it’s not ok anymore because we changed the rules.

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Yes, we live in a different world than in the 1870’s. Imagine that.

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I certainly support realistic and achievable pathways to legal immigration.

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Totally and completely separate issue than allowing unfettered illegal immigration.