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Vivek Ramaswamy on Immigration

 

 


Seal the border to reduce fentanyl epidemic

Q: About 90% of fentanyl is seized at official border crossings, and 57% of the smugglers are U.S. citizens. Your plan?

RAMASWAMY: There's two sides to this. One is, we do have to seal that Southern border. Building the wall is not enough. They're building cartel-financed tunnels underneath that wall. Semitrucks can drive through them. We have to use our own military to seal the Swiss cheese of a Southern border. But we also have to be honest. There's a demand-side problem in this country too, a mental health epidemic. We have to bring back mental health care in this country, not with pumping pharmaceuticals, but faith-based approaches that restore purpose and meaning in the next generation of Americans. Many of them are getting it through social media. If you're 16 years old or under, you should not be using an addictive social media product, period. We can revive the mental health of this country while stopping the fentanyl epidemic.

Source: Fox Business 2023 Republican primary debate in Simi Valley , Sep 27, 2023

Military force to secure the border; then universally deport

Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, has called for securing the border by any means necessary, including military force. This could violate an 1878 law that forbids the use of federal troops for civilian law enforcement, but Mr. Ramaswamy argues that securing the border isn't civilian law enforcement.

He wants to "universally" deport undocumented immigrants and opposes any path to legal residence because "we are a nation of laws. That is something we cannot compromise on."

He added that, for people brought to the US as children, he would be open to a process allowing them to return after being deported. But all legal immigration, he says, should run on a "meritocratic" points system, with lottery-based paths eliminated.

He said citing undocumented immigrants' economic contributions was tantamount to making economic arguments for slavery: "'The vegetables will rot in the field, we need people to pluck our crops'--[slaveowners] were saying that in the South in the 1860s," he said.

Source: New York Times on 2023 Presidential hopefuls , Aug 18, 2023

Other candidates on Immigration: Vivek Ramaswamy on other issues:
2024 Republican Presidential Candidates:
Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND)
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL)
Larry Elder (R-CA;withdrew)
Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC)
Rep. Will Hurd (R-FL;withdrew)
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR)
Perry Johnson (R-IL)
Mayor Steve Laffey (R-RI)
Former V.P.Mike Pence (R-IN;withdrew)
Vivek Ramaswamy (R-OH)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
Secy. Corey Stapleton (R-MT)
Mayor Francis Suarez (R-FL;withdrew)
Former Pres.Donald Trump (R-NY)

2024 Democratic and 3rd-party primary candidates:
Pres. Joe Biden (D-DE)
V.P.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (I-NY)
Joe "Exotic" Maldonado (Libertarian)
Rep.Dean Phillips (D-MN)
Cornel West (Green Party)
Kanye West (Birthday Party)
Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
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