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I don't want Western governments to actually invade any desert countries. I'm not an idiot, I don't want another war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Nobody wants that except for Northrup Grumman shareholders.
I want my government to forcibly expel people from the countries who are a net liability to every country that they enter (See the chart on page 21 of this pdf if you want to see the data). This means ZERO muslim refugees from Africa and the Middle east. It means deporting blacks/muslims who are already here by the millions. It means giving ICE a blank check to arrest violent Hispanics and send them back to El Salvador. Seriously, give ICE almost unlimited money. Each minority deported will save the American taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars, and their children/descendents even moreso. Unquantifiable amounts of damage letting muslims reproduce in our country. Give ICE 10x their current budget. It's the best investment this country can make. This means shutting down all of the non-profits I hinted at in my original post. It means revoking millions of H1B VISA's and other refugee VISAs. It means arresting philanthropists who are attempting to bring in these undesirables and hold them accountable for the damage that they are causing to the country.
When I say "declare war on islam" I mean actually designing our immigration infrastructure to keep and acquire people who are capable of contributing to a safe, stable western society. Muslims have proven over and over again they're incapable of this.
These are normal authright opinions, I think.
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I don't disagree with most of that (unless be deporting people already here you mean stripping people of citizenship). But I wouldn't describe it as declaring war just enforcing immigration law.
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So "declare war on Islam" means treating Muslims roughly the same way you want to treat all nonwhite immigrants in the US? That isn't a standard sense of the term "war".
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