Sorry, that doesn't cut it.
And lets just deal with the whole sports team garbage, it been a long psyop to warp winds, the "local team" has absolutely nothing to do with the people there, it's identity theft by billionaires to con the locals into paying for their stadiums and buying their merchandise.
In the old days the players actually came from the town the team was named for, then they started recruiting just a few players from other places, and eventually they now have not a single player from the town.
They are now trying to use the mind warping that they installed in people using sports teams to do the same thing to the country itself, "America" will continue to exist, but nobody of importance in it will be American except for the suckers at the bottom paying for the stadiums and buying the merch.
I'm not a zero immigration extremist, I could allow a much smaller program to prioritize a literal handful of the best and brightest inside very restrictive total immigration caps, but you people are driving me farther towards the extreme, it would be far better to allow zero immigration ever than what you are pushing.
You're overheating -- the sports team is merely an analogy to say "we want the best people here, not over there."
As to the point that America is its people, I 100% agree. That's why a proper role of the Federal government in its constitutional duty to control immigration is to ensure that American interests, values and heritage are preserved and promoted by immigration. And since the system has been abused for decades, there need to be steps taken to undo some of that damage. I don't know what those steps are, but I'm sure smart people can figure them out.
But reactionary tyrannical measures like those you promote only feed the problem and make it worse. As soon as the Dems recover from the Woke insanity and get back into POTUS again, they'll just clap back with hyper-left-tyranny in response to your current MAGA tyranny. You can't fight tyranny with tyranny.
Your side is like the local Greek who showed the Persians the goat path around the pass so the Spartans could be attacked from within as well as without.
After all, if the Spartans were so great they should be able to beat an enemy attacking on the inside and the outside at the same time, right?
Americans do not generally understand or believe we are in a war. If we are in a war, then the President needs to clearly and publicly explain that to the whole country. Obviously, during war, there is no immigration of any kind. But let the enemies be identified, let Congress pass an actual declaration of war (the only constitutionally valid means of authorizing war), and then we close the borders, and so on. In any other condition, we are not in a war, and so Ephialtes showing the Persians the goat path is not a valid metaphor, just over-heated rhetoric.
And none of them were ever better than Americans or needed.
*sigh -- "better than" is not the standard. It's about whether America itself is stronger with those people here, rather than over there. That's the criterion by which immigration must be judged, constitutionally (because the Federal government is obligated by the Constitution to act in American interests).
And they were always depressing the wages of Americans and crowding them out of the industry.
Those kinds of economic dynamics only come into play when there is a flood of immigration as we have had for the past decade+. Otherwise, immigration has mere marginal effects that cannot even be measured. An engineer will earn an engineer's pay whether or not people immigrate into his field if there are realistic caps and they are actually enforced. So the problem is that the laws on the books are not being obeyed. Probably half of all the major problems plaguing this country today could be fixed overnight simply by enforcing the laws already on the books.
1 this is an original MAGA issue and one that is a winning issue for us.
I recall that MAGA lost in 2020 and couldn't win again until after 4 years of sleepy Joe. Pride cometh before a fall, don't think you're more secure than you actually are. Do you think TheCount considers his side to be beaten? He's just waiting for the next cycle and there can be no doubt they will have organized the maximally destructive assault against MAGA that they can possibly rouse, by that time.
2 if this is not dealt with severely and swiftly, even at the (incorrectly) theorized short term cost it will result in an irreversible long term destruction of any hope for MAGA and America, this is a battle we have no choice about fighting, it is a hill to die on.
And enforcing the laws on the books, cutting the flow by 90%, is an unworkably bad solution??
Maintaining our national boundaries is not and never will be tyranny.
These people are not Americans and they have no right to come here.
Of course maintaining the borders is not tyranny. And my argument is not about sympathy for foreigners... these people are already middle-class otherwise, they wouldn't be able to afford university education back home.
We want to poach the best from other countries, plain and simple. That's how you make America not only great, but greater. And a lot of that is about pipelining their youth here. India is more Westernized than most Americans realize. We don't want the ones that are part of their old political establishment which is socialist to the core, but that's just a percentage, and they can be filtered out through immigration interviews, etc. Most of them are as Western as any Brit and many of them are a good deal more conservative. That's the part that the current MAGA discussion is totally overlooking. I can't speak for today's H1Bs, but the early H1Bs were significantly more conservative than the average American. We want a pipeline of those people coming here because it will make us stronger, and deplete those people from overseas, weakening our potential enemies from what they would otherwise be.