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Cat: I feel the American approach to immigration isn't punitive enough. People need to suffer more. Dog: Like the DACA people. Brought here as children, sometimes infants. Why didn't they just get in line? Poster: Countries we're not accepting people from Bangladesh, Brazil Canada, China (mainland) Colombia Dominican Republic Ecuador, El Salvador Haiti, India, Jamaica Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan Peru, Philippines South Korea, United Kingdom, Vietnam Cat: We need more people living in fear, being tortured, being abused, with no recourse whatsoever. How could anyone be against that? Dog: What's cruel about shipping people back to a place they can't even find on a map? Which I can't even find? Poster: People We'll (Maybe) Accept High school graduates People who have had jobs for more than two years in a profession requiring a minimum of two years of training Winners of the Diversity Visa lottery No more than 675,000 people (worldwide total) Cat: Give me your tired, your hungry, your poor...no, wait, no poor, you need to prove you have income above the poverty line. And we're not taking too many people, maybe ten of you, and definitely none from one of those dirty nasty countries we already have too many losers from. Dog: If you couldn't stand up to your parents when you were a baby, what can you contribute to society now? Poster: Oh and by the way If you are found to be in the U.S. illegally you have to wait 10 to 20 years before reapplying to immigrate.

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I hope this strip doesn't fall into Poe's Law.

The United States immigration system is a travesty of the values our country purports to stand for. I don't think most people who ask "Why don't they get in line?" have any idea what the real answer to that question looks like. Even people who immigrated twenty years ago have no idea how insane the system's become. Basically, if you don't have a close family member here—close being your spouse, parent, or child, basically—or a sponsoring employer, you're not getting in. Especially if you're from one of the countries we're just not taking immigrants from. Even if you do get on the list to immigrate, you may languish there for years.

And if you do stay illegally, you'll be hounded, forced to live in fear, surrounded by assholes who hate you for no good reason. And if you get caught you may be actively tortured, possibly by a power-mad asshole recently pardoned by Trump. And if you do get deported, the line will be even longer.

And I'm just scratching the surface here. That Trump wants to make all this worse is unconscionable and that any American agrees is abjectly horrible.