Europe Should Ban 3rd World Immigrants
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- Time for argument
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- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
RESOLUTION
Europe should substantially reduce immigration from developing countries and deport migrants residing illegally within its borders
RULES
(1) Debater must post their own arguments and provide sources for factual claims.
(2) Place your sources for factual claims inside the round where they are made.
(3) Structure the debate in a readable, coherent fashion.
(4) No semantics, trolling, or lawyering. Engage with the substance of the resolution.
(5) Debaters must use their own writing. Writing will be tested with gptzero. If your text in a round is 10% or more AI, you forfeit that round.
ROUNDS
1. Main Argument
2. Rebuttal to opponent's main argument. No new arguments.
3. Evaluation of main arguments and rebuttals + voting issues (one paragraph). No new arguments.
DEFINITIONS
Europe - European sovereign states acting through national governments.
Should - “ought to” or “it is desirable that” due to a moral or policy obligation.
Substantially - a large, meaningful, non-trivial amount.
Reduce - to decrease in number, scale, rate, or inflow; for example, lowering the number of immigrants admitted from the defined category of countries through legal or administrative means.
Immigration - the movement of foreign nationals into a state for the purpose of permanent residence through lawful admission channels unless otherwise specified. This does not include tourism, studying, or seasonal work.
Developing Countries - countries generally characterized by lower levels of industrialization, income, and human development relative to advanced economies. For the sake of brevity, this includes Sub-Saharan Africa, MENA, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Deport - to formally remove a non-citizen from a state's territory under legal authority because that person lacks lawful permission to remain.
Illegal Migrants - non-citizens who are present in a country without legal authorization under that country’s immigration laws.
BURDEN OF PROOF
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ACCEPTANCE
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