DS> They are not sneaking in.  They walk across, and immediately turn
 DS> themselves into the border patrol for processing.

I often fantasize about my neighbors coming over and serving me lobster tail
and champagne. And sometimes I dream about Iran giving huge donations to my
Catholic church. You & me both have wild imaginations!

 DS> If they do not get any health screening that is the fault of the border
 DS> patrol, not them.

Be sure to let the border patrol know that they're not doing their job then.

 DS> They are not cockroaches, they are human beings.  Your use of
 DS> denigrating terms does not diminish their plight.

I'm not saying they're insects, but the way they scurry off into hiding from
ICE is reminiscent of the days when I lived in a lousy, dirty apartment
building.

 DS>  AT> Come illegally or via a legal loophole, which 90% abuse
 DS> 
 DS> What loophole is that?

The loophole is that the USA takes refugees. But the definition of "refugee"
is lost in translation; the USA is referring to people who are coming from
"oppressive" governments, but the word "oppressive" is basically the
loophole. What's oppressive? There's a huge difference between oppression in
the worst central american nation vs the worst in the world. Do we only care
about central americans and nobody else?

 DS> See above.  You repeated yourself.

We're on a never-ending loop. No matter how many times someone explains the
difference between legal & illegal immigration to you, you still don't get it.

 DS> So fix that.  Give them a medical screening.  And btw, tuberculosis is a
 DS> lot more treatable today than it was back in the days of Ellis Island.

The legal immigration system isn't broken; there's nothing to fix there. You
want tuberculosis screenings for illegal immigrants? That doesn't fix the
fact that they're jumping in line in front of applicants who aren't jumping
on the loophole bandwagon.

I'd rather have them screened for illegal immigration, drug smuggling,
kidnapping, criminal background check in their home country, etc, and TB last.

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