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As the title of this video suggests, we are asking the question, are the Americans, is the American Immigration apparatus I guess I should say specifically, taking a page from Thai Immigration in some of their enforcement efforts in the United States? 

I thought of making this video after recently seeing a Tweet, this was from the New York Post at New York Post on X, Twitter, whatever you want to call it, but I'll go ahead and throw this up on screen; we'll use it as the thumbnail too, so it will be in the thumbnail. Quoting directly: "Georgia college student faces deportation after running red light -- Police discover her entire family is living illegally in the US for years." And the first thing I thought of was this, one I did a video recently where I was quoting Brandon Smith from Alt Market and his position that look, you are not going to sway me with the argument of "oh this illegal alien has been in the United States for decades, it's so sad they have to go." As Mr. Smith points out, that's actually an argument in favour of their expeditious deportation because they have continued to violate the law in a flagrant and ongoing manner and he's got a pretty good point there. If Immigration law is to have any integrity, we have to understand that non-enforcement of promulgated law undermines the law itself; it's not good policy to do that. If we want to change the law, that's one thing, but the law is what it is, and if you are illegally present in the United States, the length of time should not mitigate against punishment, I shouldn't say punishment - it's not a punitive thing - remedy, which is deportation if you are in the United States illegally; that is just at the end of the day what it is.

I thought of this and the title of the video, Thailand takes a pretty, what some might call a hardline stance. I don't call it that. They enforce their immigration law and as I have discussed in other videos, when they rolled out the blacklisting system some 7, 8, 9 years ago when they rolled that out, I told people at the time, “you need to take this seriously’. A lot of people just fobbed it off; I yet again got burned on the internet, "oh you're just fear mongering bla, bla, bla." Then it came in, and it was very, very serious because the Thais were sick of it. And they also said "hey, anybody that is going to just prolongedly live somewhere illegally, affirmatively illegally - they know that they are not there legally and continue to live there - we actually view that as requiring punishment in order to remedy the problem for our country in the future, which one example of that is if you are caught with one day of overstay in Thailand, some could argue this is Draconian - depends on circumstances - but yeah, if you are caught on one day of overstay in Thailand, you are banned for five years. It's an immediate blacklisting, five-year blacklisting if you are on overstay and you are apprehended by police in Thailand which is why I thought of this because she got pulled over for a red light. I've seen this happen. Traffic stops in Thailand, find an overstayer and boom they are processed out of the country. And this is traffic stops both as drivers and as passengers; it can happen. Don't overstay your Visa. 

But I was thinking, people can say Thailand is stringent, Thailand takes a hard line on Immigration. I don't view it that way. They just enforce the law as it is written, and this is a situation where that is happening in the US it looks like now. Now there is a lot of nuance to this. I don't like that we are now in a world where you have to produce documentation to prove your status or something. I don't want to live in that universe exactly, but I do also understand that there needs to be rational enforcement of Immigration Laws in order to maintain a well-running nation state. I think the Thais understand that; I think the Americans have finally come to their senses on that issue. 

Now that said, balancing that against liberty issues especially as it pertains to people's data and the ability to just walk around without being harassed about ID or something - and I definitely don't like the notion of digital identification as I have discussed in many other videos. But that being said, the issue of illegal Immigration is something serious and clearly I think the US is taking it more seriously and they may even be taking a page in a sense out of Thai Immigration's playbook with things like this and while they may seem a little bit Draconian by some people standards, by my standards somebody that continuously fails to abide by the law in the country in which they are living, that doesn't mitigate against their possible remedy or punishment, whatever you want to call it. To my mind, it operates in the opposite direction in an argumentative sense.