Single Issue Voter: Controlling The Borders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmmm

They don't want those who enter illegally.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has come out in support of a policy that recognizes immigrants' contributions to state economies and said he would allow states to better tap into those contributions.

Cox, along with Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, a Republican, published an op-ed in the Washington Post Tuesday calling on Congress to take action on immigration policy and arguing that states should be allowed to sponsor immigrants to supplement their workforces.

"The United States became prosperous because many immigrants saw our beacon and seized the freedoms and opportunities offered here," the governors wrote. "That formula has not changed."

Cox and Holcomb argued that Congress's approach to immigration should include:

Rules to determine who can come in and how, and who can stay.
Unflinching enforcement of such rules and firm control of all entry points.
A review-and-repeat process to assure that the U.S. offers paths to citizenship based on evolving needs.
A practical approach to Dreamers, individuals who were brought to the United States illegally as children.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50584876/utah-indiana-governors-call-for-states-to-sponsor-immigrants-to-fill-labor-shortages

[Anonymous]

Good.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yep. The cartels have billions of dollars so can pay quite a nice price to find drug mules.

What is not said is that nearly half of the fentanyl is being seized at places other than legal border crossings.

The other thing that is not being addressed is .... How is the fentanyl that is NOT seized getting in?

[Anonymous]

She is flat out lying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yep. The cartels have billions of dollars so can pay quite a nice price to find drug mules.

What is not said is that nearly half of the fentanyl is being seized at places other than legal border crossings.

The other thing that is not being addressed is .... How is the fentanyl that is NOT seized getting in?

Do you think there is only foreign fentanyl and not, you know, labs and expertise to make it inside the US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yep. The cartels have billions of dollars so can pay quite a nice price to find drug mules.

What is not said is that nearly half of the fentanyl is being seized at places other than legal border crossings.

The other thing that is not being addressed is .... How is the fentanyl that is NOT seized getting in?

Do you think there is only foreign fentanyl and not, you know, labs and expertise to make it inside the US?

Primarily comes from Mexico with the chemicals coming from China.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/08/politics/fentanyl-commission-report/index.html

https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf

[Anonymous]

A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Biden administration’s use of policies to mass release migrants into the U.S. interior is unlawful, accusing the administration of turning the border into a "meaningless line in the sand."

Judge T. Kent Wetherall ruled in response to a lawsuit from the state of Florida, which alleged the administration’s mass release of migrants via humanitarian parole into Alternatives to Detention -- known as "Parole +ATD" -- is unlawful.

In a scathing opinion Wednesday, Wethereall stated the Biden administration had "effectively turned the Southwest Border into a meaningless line in the sand and little more than a speedbump for aliens flooding into the country."

Additionally, Wetherell ruled that the policies implemented by the Biden administration, including catch and release, had contributed to the degradation of the border as a means to keep illegal migrants out.

"Today’s ruling affirms what we have known all along, President Biden is responsible for the border crisis and his unlawful immigration policies make this country less safe. A federal judge is NOW ordering Biden to follow the law, and his administration should immediately begin securing the border to protect the American people," Republican Florida Attorney General Moody said in a statement following the ruling.

The administration had been increasingly using parole -- which statute says is supposed to be used on a "case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit" -- to release migrants quickly into the interior to reduce overcrowding at the border as it deals with historic migrant numbers at the border.Florida contended that the government is violating statutory mandates that migrants be detained. The administration had argued that there is no "non-detention policy."

[Anonymous]

OP here. (This is my second post in this thread.)

Thank you to everyone who has posted & shared their thoughts thus far.

I do have a second issue that is important to me, but is more complex: Standing up to China. I will start another thread now asking how we can diminish the threat of China.

[Anonymous]

And, this news coming on a day when the president of Mexico claims that his country does not produce fentanyl. A blatant lie.

[Anonymous]

And the US seized them.

So what is the problem? You would be more upset if these criminals weren't seized, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the US seized them.

So what is the problem? You would be more upset if these criminals weren't seized, right?

Of course it is good they were seized.

A couple of points.....
Neither LA nor Michigan are nowhere near the border. These drugs made it into our country. You think this is all there is?

The amount that is being seized is a mere fraction of what is getting in undetected.

"In 2022, a record-setting 14,700 pounds of fentanyl shipments was seized by US Customs and Border Protection agents; this year alone, there’s already been 12,500 pounds snagged. But that’s still just a fraction of what enters the US."

https://nypost.com/2023/02/18/tracking-fentanyls-deadly-path-china-to-mexico-to-america/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of my party affiliation/registration, I will vote based on one issue--strict control of our borders.

Other than right to life/abortion issue is anyone else approaching the next presidential election as a single issue voter ?

If other than right to life/abortion, what is that issue ?

yes. Democrats have abandoned US workers to grovel for more cheap low wage workers. Until they go back to their roots and start supporting US workers first, I will vote someone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Regardless of my party affiliation/registration, I will vote based on one issue--strict control of our borders.

Other than right to life/abortion issue is anyone else approaching the next presidential election as a single issue voter ?

If other than right to life/abortion, what is that issue ?

yes. Democrats have abandoned US workers to grovel for more cheap low wage workers. Until they go back to their roots and start supporting US workers first, I will vote someone else.

OP here.

Thank you for this response. You present a very important perspective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And the US seized them.

So what is the problem? You would be more upset if these criminals weren't seized, right?

Of course it is good they were seized.

A couple of points.....
Neither LA nor Michigan are nowhere near the border. These drugs made it into our country. You think this is all there is?

The amount that is being seized is a mere fraction of what is getting in undetected.

"In 2022, a record-setting 14,700 pounds of fentanyl shipments was seized by US Customs and Border Protection agents; this year alone, there’s already been 12,500 pounds snagged. But that’s still just a fraction of what enters the US."

https://nypost.com/2023/02/18/tracking-fentanyls-deadly-path-china-to-mexico-to-america/

California and Michigan are both border states. What are you talking about?