Blog Post #41 - The Big Debate-

     Well yesterday was the big debate. Throughout the whole class besides for like the last fifteen minutes we had the podcast playing and we would be discussing our opinions about it when it was being paused. The big question was "Is President Trump undermining asylum or is he restoring it?". After the class was over my opinion didn't really change. However, I am much more educated on this subject and I do agree that some things that are happening probably isn't working. What bothers me though is that all these people don't agree with Trump, but they're not in his position. What exactly is he supposed to do is my question? Apparently some people got teargassed when they tried to cross the boarder illegally....what did they think was going to happen? Pass through? No, there's going to be consequences for your actions. Maybe if you actually listened to the President of the country you're trying to get into you wouldn't get shot either. That's my opinion on that. Next, I think Trent did a great job on the "pro-trump" side and I think Sophia did a good job on the "anti-trump" side. They both presented good points with their opinions included which made it interesting to listen to. I'm neutral I guess so I can see both sides. Another thing I learned was that Trump is now metering, which limits the amount of asylum seekers to 30 people per day which isn't enough since more people will probably try to enter the country illegally to escape whatever they're running away from. I think the podcast was a little biased for "anti trump " because they were only talking about everything bad that he was doing. I feel like more people in the class had more opinions that they didn't get to share, including myself. This was a good debate and I'm glad we did it. What asylum is the right asylum?