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Single Issue Voter: Controlling The Borders
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Anonymous
The Democrats proposed things like shoring up the portions of the wall that actually need it and using electronics and surveillance for the stretches as a more cost effective way to secure the portions that get a lot less migrant activity. That got shot down by House Republicans. Whereas a lot of Republicans seem to still be stuck on some crazy idea of a big wall stretching from Pacific to Atlantic, probably with machine gun towers every 50 feet. |
Anonymous
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Now I know Black don’t crack, but that man is 30 years of age, if not more. As an unaccompanied minor sent to DC, that man would be placed under CFSA charge and placed in a foster home. Goodness gracious, I cannot believe how utterly crazy the US has become in regards to immigration. |
Anonymous
Surely no one is this incredibly ignorant! |
Anonymous
A wall wouldn’t be useless if it was big enough and made out of the correct materials, along with policy changes. The current GOP policy proposals being debated are good starts, definitely better than what the GOP has proposed in the past. The issue is that the current situation is that people who illegally crossed the border are only a part of the problem. It’s the lack of interior enforcement, the use of mass parole, people being admitted and released and allowed to live here for years in a limbo before a large amount are given the final decision that says they actually don’t qualify to be here. By then they’ve settled and built a family likely with citizen children and it becomes “too cruel” to deport them. And infeasible given the large numbers. We need policy changes. Not just more funding and personnel to speed up releases. The current policies being debated are the first that I can remember that even attempt to touch on this. Normally the neocons want more immigration and more visas and more workers that depress wages and artificially grow our economy. While progressives don’t want to do anything they deem “cruel”. (I.e. reasonable) so neither party ever puts forward good policy—even in the bills touted as “bipartisan solutions”. Status quo works well for a large portion of each party. Really hoping the Ukraine funding/border negotiations are a sign of this changing. |
Anonymous
They are both effed up. You happy. Neither gives a damn about the average American citizen. Politics suck, and people wonder why most voters just throw their hands in the air and say “why bother”. |
Anonymous
Oh, yes. The PP (and others who actually try and make this "argument") are indeed, that incredibly ignorant. DP |
Anonymous
Holy $hit. Are Democrats really so stupid that they can't read the room? They plan on throwing billions MORE at efforts to... KEEP illegal immigration flowing into our country?? Absolutely disgraceful. |
Anonymous
+100 Unfortunately, tying border reform to Ukraine/Israel funding seems to be the only way to make Democrats sit up and take notice. Otherwise, they'd just blow it off completely, as usual. |
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The big difference in illegal vs. legal is a total lack of desire to assimilate and we aren’t controlling for the ability of essential services to even keep up a tiny bit. Public schools, ERs, transit, housing etc are going to be crushed with the influx. The sad thing is people who did it the right way now wait longer as a result AND unless we mass deport illegal immigrants we simply won’t have room for legal migrants with the drain on essential services we already have. Instead of people with high merit who enrich our country, it’s a free for all. No serious country can survive this if it continues like this.
Unfortunately Democratic voters are unable to anticipate the consequences until it personally affects them. And then they want to move someplace else and leave their home in ruins. |
Anonymous
Agree with all of this. Illegal immigration could be halted tomorrow with severe financial penalties for anyone who hires and changing the constitution to end anchor babies. |
Anonymous
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Biden has the authority to secure the border right now: Rep. Henry Cuellar "The president has the authority to secure the border right now without any changes to the law." https://www.foxnews.com/video/6344227913112 |
Anonymous
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This American Life Episode #818 is a must listen for anyone who thinks that border crossers are legitimate asylum seekers. What is fascinating is the production team thinks they are presenting a sympathetic story but totally miss the mark.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/818/transcript |
Anonymous
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I see a lot of paid democrat operatives posting in here, here are the facts:
A. America is facing a historic crisis at its southern border under President Biden. Under Biden’s immigration policies, illegal border crossings have soared to all-time highs. • In Fiscal Year 2021 alone, U.S. Customs and Border Protection experienced 1.7 million encounters with aliens at the southern border, the highest number ever recorded in a single year. • That number does not include people who evaded border patrol officers. o According to the internal Border Patrol estimates from January through August of 2021, more than 273,000 migrants avoided apprehension and entered our country illegally. o These are new records. Fiscal Year 2022 is already sharply outpacing 2021’s record-breaking numbers. • U.S. Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz anticipates in the next few days, the U.S. will hit one million encounters with migrants attempting to illegally cross our Southern border since October 1. • That’s one million encounters in the last six months, outpacing last year’s record-breaking numbers. • Last month, CBP encountered nearly 165,000 illegal immigrants at the border. o That was the highest total for February in the Department of Homeland Security’s history. • For the last 12 months in a row, there have been over 150,000 encounters at the Southern border; eight of which broke records. B. With Title 42 ending, Biden officials warn: a border surge is coming. Biden’s own officials are warning the crisis at the Southern Border will get worse as Title 42 expires. • DHS Office of Intelligence anticipates as many as 1 million immigrants could cross the Southern Border in 6 weeks if the Biden administration rescinds Title 42 in April. o Department of Homeland Security intelligence estimates 25,000 migrants are already in Mexican shelters just south of the border, waiting for Title 42 to end. o The number of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico is already rising, as migrants and cartels that smuggle people into the U.S. anticipate the coming change in policy. o "Intel stats [show that] there are tens of thousands just waiting in Mexico for it to end. [Border Patrol] capacity will be reached in a few days and we will be forced to release subjects on the street," a senior Border Patrol official wrote. "This will cause even more to flood across the border. We will see something we have never seen before. The border will be open for narcotics to cross since everyone will be processing." • Even Democrat Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema are telling President Biden not to end Title 42, writing: “we urge you to continue providing additional border management and security resources to Arizona so that our border communities do not have to bear any unnecessary burdens from Title 42 changes.” Senate Republican Conference 2 2. THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION HAS UNDERMINED AMERICA’S BORDER SECURITY AND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM AT EVERY TURN. A. Biden created this border crisis. In Biden’s first 100 days in office, he took more than 94 executive actions on immigration. Those actions included: 1. Stopping the construction of the border wall. 2. Attempting to halt deportations for 100 days. 3. Suspending new enrollments in Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP, aka “Remain in Mexico”). 4. Terminating Asylum Cooperative Agreements (ACAs) with Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. 5. Ending Prompt Asylum Case Review (PACR) for non-Mexicans, and Humanitarian Asylum Review Program (HARP), for Mexicans. Now he’s going even further. B. Right now, the Biden administration is actively eliminating almost every tool America has to secure our Southern border in the face of the worst border crisis in U.S. history. 1. Biden’s new FY2023 budget proposes cutting border security funding. 2. He’s ending Title 42. 3. He’s fighting to end “Remain in Mexico” at the Supreme Court. 4. He’s giving USCIS officials the authority to grant asylum to migrants who cross the border without an immigration court/judge reviewing that claim. a. This will likely lead to an increase in granting asylum to individuals with frivolous claims. b. Migrants who have their claim denied will still be allowed to appeal that decision to an immigration court and remain in the U.S. while the appeal is pending. 5. He’s undermining immigration enforcement (ICE) in America with a flurry of bad policies, including: a. Rolling back the scope of DHS’s expedited removal authority. b. Limiting ICE’s immigration enforcement activities. i. In early March, the Biden administration released FY2021 ICE enforcement data after months of delaying the annual, public-facing report. ii. The report revealed the lowest number of removals and arrests in the history of ICE, while still omitting standard data that is generally included this annual report. iii. One ICE officer called the arrest and removal numbers “an acknowledgment that ICE officials are being paid not to do their job.” iv. Under Biden, ICE: 1. Arrested 48% fewer convicted criminals 2. Deported 63% fewer criminals; and 3. Issued 46% fewer ‘detainer requests to other’ law enforcement agencies” in FY 2021 compared to FY 2020. 4. On deportations, ERO recorded “just 39,149 convicts removed in 2021 — down 62% compared to 2020, when 103,762 convicts were ousted, and far below the pre-COVID rate of 2019, when 150,141 convicts were removed.” v. It’s little surprise the Biden administration was slow to release the FY2021 ICE ERO report. 1. Deportations have dropped by 70 percent since the pandemic. 2. ICE agents are averaging fewer than one arrest per month. These policy changes will be detrimental to America’s border security. (See below) |