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If you implement them nation-wide the only result would be people coming from abroad to enjoy housing-first social services. Unless you are saying the first step towards solving homelessness is the prevention of illegal entry and the mass expulsion of illegal immigrants.

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It is orders of magnitude harder to cross the US national border than between states or counties.

Either way, I don't understand this idea that we shouldn't care for Americans because what if some non-Americans got in?

I get the impression there's a fair chunk of America that feels that way about any sort of government-provided assistance (though more accurately I guess it's "assistance is fine as long as it's to people I approve of).

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