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As A Country Built By Immigrants, Tightening Our Borders Can Actually Help Make Us More Diverse

Better organization, preparation and greater access to asylum are a proper answer to helping those in need.

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Today, we stand tall as a country built by immigrants. We have been built by those who have come with new perspectives from wherever it is that they came from.

As a result, it is essential that we maintain the ability to attract, attend to and bring in those who may be able to think in ways that those of us born here cannot.

To be a place for those who strive for opportunity helps us build a greater nation of hard workers, entrepreneurs and employees who have had a record of bettering our economic status, and can help our nation become a better place.

We as a country need to be able to open ourselves to those who strive to join our country.

That being said, there is an unfortunate truth in the policies a government has to make — some of them force us to pick and choose to prioritize certain people over others.

As much as some of us may like to be a humanitarian haven for everyone, doing so would disrupt our ability to properly allocate our resources and powers to the members in this country. And as a result, we would risk not being able to deliver on the expectations those who came to our country expected.

As a result, loosening our attitudes towards illegal immigration, as brash as it may seem, cannot — and should not — happen as our moral duty.

What can occur, however, is changing our attitudes on it to be one that's better able to benefit the sides of those seeking to live here and maintaining our ability to be able to deliver on the expectations we need, so long as they are able to deliver on theirs.

As a result, I'm proposing a position on immigration that can do such that. One that pushes to further secure the border to better prevent the month-by-month rise of illegal immigration that we have witnessed in recent times.

Such as the over 40,000 arrests on the U.S. Mexico Border in May while being able to better serve those in urgent need through greater access to asylum through mixed residency and court centers, as well as lower requirements for the fear threshold (down to 10% as a flat requirement vs 10-15% chance of persecution, reducing factors in application (religion specifically), acceptance among a will to be a border agent, and allowing for re-application across the border as well.

In order to achieve this, we should pursue the following — re-allocating our money spent at the border to distribute a massive upgrade to our fences, enhanced with tall tiles, restored electric fences, and sensors indicating a break over, under or through the fences and connected with multiple asylum centers along the border.

This is because our investments in greater border agents have not been effective, with an increase in illegal immigration whilst we have had greater expenditure on border agents at the same time.

In the pursuit of citizenship, the number of VISA's we have accepted by the year has grown by over 3 million in the past decade. And to help further that growth, we can be more open in our exceptions of people by reducing residency and age limits to those who cannot speak English well, and to reduce waiting times by investing in more centers of immigration, more staff and to provide full weeks in the year to help residents finish the process faster.

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