I think the discussion went very well. There were many different points of view ad both sides brought up very good points. Although I did not change sides of the discussion, some points were brought up that I did not know. I was not aware of things like the limit of Asylum, where 30 people a day could enter asylum per day. I always thought it was just halted until the immigration problem was fixed. Was kind of off topic of the main discussion but the point Colin made on the different sides of news are completely opposite and you can't trust either side. This could be a completely different class discussion for another day. Back to the point, both sides had strong arguments and no side had a clear winner. I like the idea of a compromise between both sides. A lot of the time a compromise os the best answer because everyone is happy, but I do not think a compromise is possible because of how much hate is between the two political parties. So some points that were brought up that stuck out to me was that domestic violence should not be a rule in asylum because it is not the government of the country's fault. There will always be victims of domestic violence in every country including America. There can also be false claims of domestic violence and the immigrants could get in for free, which is not fair for legal immigrants who had to go through a long, expensive process to get into America. In the podcast it said that there is now immigrant screening. This is a very good idea in my opinion because as explained in the discussion, people from Isis or MS 13 could have previously got into this country after they applied for asylum under a fake domestic violence claim. Now they will be checked to see if they have any criminal background to keep the country safe. Most people applying for asylum are not criminals and would not murder someone, or rob a store, but some would, and a little good can't make up for a lot of harm. I do not know many names in my class but I felt like Colin, Trent, Sean, the girl who sits in the front middle and the girl who sits in the back left made very good points.