I don’t understand why the US lacks some of these small but very helpful visual cues.

It’s like the dollar bills all being green (and the same size?). If you have limited vision it’s really hard to see the difference between the bills. I think every other currency I know uses different colours (and sizes) for each bill to make them easier to distinguish.

Same with street signs. Why use text like “speed limit” or “one way” when you can use symbols and colours for this? For people who can’t read (English) it’s so unnecessarily confusing.

And a last example I noticed again recently… Why is the nutritional information text on American products so confusing? It only says the amount of sugar, fat, carbs etc per serving. But a serving is such an arbitrary amount sometimes, I basically always want to know the percentage too so I can much more easily compare products. Like this.

I’m sure there’s some things that are designed better in the US, but I remember these things from when I went to visit years ago and being quite surprised.

Oh interesting, where is that used? The only shorthand I’ve heard in Spanish is el aire

Sorry just wanted to check: you don’t support deportation under any circumstances?

To be clear: I absolutely don’t agree with what ICE is doing and the abhorrent treatment of migrants in many parts of the world. I’m also not American so please keep in mind that context.

But what about someone who overstays a tourist visa and is then continuously committing violent crimes? After they’ve served their sentence, what should happen to them?

If you can’t deport them, then should they get a resident permit? Citizenship? If they don’t then they’ll just be in the country without the required documentation to work and reside there legally and will likely return to crime to survive.

I’m genuinely asking because though “no deportations under any circumstances” sounds admirable, I think you’ll quite quickly run into some big problems.

Not to mention how appealing a country with this policy would become for human traffickers. Then it wouldn’t matter if you’re a refugee or a gang member, just get across the border and you will never have to leave.

Again, fuck ICE and all brutal regimes throughout the world. I just think that abolishing any and all deportations would open up a whole other can of worms and there are surely better ways to protect migrants.