The Stock Issues
This stock issue states that the Affirmative must prove that their plan SOLVES the major harms identified in their case.
What is solvency?
What is the wording of the Aff plan?
The United States federal government should substantially reduce restrictions on legal immigration by removing the cap on employment-based visas, such as EB-1, EB-2, and EB-3.
The Negative's major job in the debate is to prove this major point.
That the Affirmative's case is bad
That the Affirmative loses on one of the stock issues
These are the three primary elements of impact calculus.
What are magnitude, probability, and timeframe?
This stock issues states that the Affirmative must prove that some intense destruction is being done within the status quo and that something must be done about it.
What is Harms?
In order to win the debate, the Affirmative must prove to the judge that they win on all of these five things?
What are the stock issues?
The Negative can also run these 5 off-cases in order to sway the judge. Name all 5, in the context of the Visas Aff.
India Brain Drain DA, Wages DA, Environment DA, Topicality, Counterplan
What does it mean to split the block?
What is diversionary war and/or a global pandemic
This stock issue states that the Affirmative must prove that a harm is not already being solved in the status quo.
What is inherency?
What are advantages?
This type of Negative argument recognizes that there may be harms in the status quo that need to be solved, but that the Aff plan is an ineffective means of solving them, thus you should do alternative thing.
What is the counterplan?
This is the last speech in which new arguments can be read.
What is the 1NR?
**The 1AR can respond or answer to the negative, and they can extend arguments from previous speeches, but they cannot read any new arguments.
What is the impact of the Wages DA, and how does it win on Impact Calculus?
What is xenophobia and diversionary war?
This stock issue states that the Affirmative must prove that the Aff Plan is an example of the resolution. The Negative sometimes makes this a major off-case argument that can be a voting issue.
What is Topicality?
The Negative says that the plan isn't topical because it is not "substantial." They say that substantial means a great number of people. They read a card to support this. How does the Aff respond?
In the 2AC, read the AT Topicality card, which says that the plan is substantial because EB visas are for people who make substantial contributions.
The Topicality off-case argument states that the Neg's plan isn't substantial because it does not do what?
It does not help a large amount of people.
This short phrase occurs at the beginning of a speech and it conveys to both the judges and the opponents what order you will give your arguments.
What is the roadmap?
What is the India Brain Drain Impact, and how does it win on Impact Calculus?
What is nuclear war between Pakistan and India?
This stock issue states that the Affirmative must prove that the harms in the status quo affect a great amount of people.
What is significance?
If the Negative runs any Counterplan, the Affirmative has an option to run these two options. State their name and describe what they mean.
Counterplan bad
Permutation
Describe the Courts Counterplan. *You do not need to use the exact plan text.
Courts should review the decisions of the consulate officers who approve visas because their decisions could be biased. The plan couldn't eliminate these biases, but courts could rule against them.
The Negative has this, which means that they automatically win in the event of a tie.
What is presumption?
What is the impact of the Environment DA, and how does it win on Impact Calculus?
What is extinction?