Is there or isn’t there a crisis on the border?

[Anonymous]

Maybe they didn't like white people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m an American citizen who flew into IAD from a foreign country two weeks ago. My flight arrived just behind one other, around midnight.

At IAD, you line up in an American citizens/ permanent residents or not American citizen/ permanent resident line. Which is standard. Here’s what was not standard: between the two lines of international flights, there were over 300 people. Approx 75% were in the American citizens line. They had 4 officers processing the foreign citizens and ONE OFFICER processing all of the American citizens. After a half hour, the foreign citizens were all processed and those lines were closed, and those 4 officers left. We were in the middle of the line for Americans, and it took us over 2 hours to get our passport stamped (almost 2 am). And the ONE CBP agent processing Americans was ridiculously slow. By the time we cleared immigration, our bags were off the carousel and sitting in a jumble of luggage and no one was staffing Customs (after you get your checked luggage) at all.

So, good time to smuggle contraband in checked baggage, I guess.

Why are foreign citizens being processed before Americans and much faster than Americans? This was a flight from a touristy European County, without foreigners who should have posed a security risk. Why were some Americans sitting in a 4 hour line during the slowest part of the day while one guy processed most of two planes?

The only answer that I can come up with is CBP is proving a point about how stretched thin they are. And that Americans standing in line for three or four hours in an otherwise empty hall to see the one CBP officer will start to say that these poor overworked souls need reinforcements. And make a fuss.

Sorry. No dice. They could have used 3-4 agents of the 5 working to process Americans (who again, were 75% or so of the arrivals). And processed everyone in much less time. This was all about a CBP temper tantrum and CBP putting on a show. And not very well, because they clearly had the manpower to process foreigners in a timely manner.

BTW— they had also taken IAD off the list of airports using Mobile Pass— which is how I usually bypass these lines to being with. There are something like 15 airports that use it. Why not a major international airport like IAD.

And FWIW I think foreigners should be processed efficiently. But I think making Americans wait for hours is all about proving a point. Otherwise, why not put Americans First?

You don’t have global entry?

Nope. Always just used Mobile Pass (and BWI is still a participating airport). Time to get it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vitriol aside. I live in Northern Virginia. I do believe there is a serious crisis at our southern border. I have addressed this with Senator Kaine, Warner and Congressman Beyer via phone call. I will tell you, they say constituents are more concerned with impeachment then with border security.

I personally am very, very concerned about our borders. I have also written Speaker Pelosi as well as Chuck Shumer.

I do not understant why we would give up USA safety in America after fighting for world safety in WWII given lives lost.

I hope our Congress will work with President Trump and soon.

Good for you for reaching out to them. I live in northern VA too and dont even waste my time as I know they will blow off any concerns about illegal immigration. Our senators are so popular they can sit around and do nothing and still win. They have no intention of addressing the issue of illegal immigration- particularly in how it impacts our schools. I'm pretty disillusioned by the while issue.

And this is why Trumo will win again.

Exactly. President Trump will win again. Most Americans understand we just can't fund the medical care for everyone who wants to come here. Hell, we can't even cover our own Americans who need medical care!

THIS.

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We are in Montgomery County and illegal immigration affects our lives on a daily basis in a negative way. It is insanity that people want this to continue for their own monetary benefit.

Who can afford unlimited support of endless foreigners pouring in?

People who live behind walls and send their kids to private school

[Anonymous]

Four migrants have been found dead near the border, "perhaps of dehydration".

Perhaps now Congressional Democrats will actually do something.

Perhaps not. Shame on them.

[Anonymous]

Trump claimed he inherited the separation policy from Obama.

Uh, no. This is all on you Donald.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump claimed he inherited the separation policy from Obama.

Uh, no. This is all on you Donald.

Typical do nothing Democrat, while people are dying.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Trump claimed he inherited the separation policy from Obama.

Uh, no. This is all on you Donald.

Typical do nothing Democrat, while people are dying.

This is a GOP-manufactured “crisis” and all of the propaganda has led to increased migration. The GOP sat on their asses for 2 years and did nothing while they had control of Congress even though they thought there was a “crisis”. Trump turned down $25B. Add in barbaric policies c/o Trump and you have this current sh1tshow.

100% on GOP.

Nice try, though.

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/world/americas/mexico-guatemala-border.html

Wow, looks like he’s doing something right. Even more surprising is how complementary NYT commenters are who are normally pretty liberal. Who would have ever thought that Trump could really a dent on this issue?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vitriol aside. I live in Northern Virginia. I do believe there is a serious crisis at our southern border. I have addressed this with Senator Kaine, Warner and Congressman Beyer via phone call. I will tell you, they say constituents are more concerned with impeachment then with border security.

I personally am very, very concerned about our borders. I have also written Speaker Pelosi as well as Chuck Shumer.

I do not understant why we would give up USA safety in America after fighting for world safety in WWII given lives lost.

I hope our Congress will work with President Trump and soon.

Good for you for reaching out to them. I live in northern VA too and dont even waste my time as I know they will blow off any concerns about illegal immigration. Our senators are so popular they can sit around and do nothing and still win. They have no intention of addressing the issue of illegal immigration- particularly in how it impacts our schools. I'm pretty disillusioned by the while issue.

And this is why Trumo will win again.

Exactly. President Trump will win again. Most Americans understand we just can't fund the medical care for everyone who wants to come here. Hell, we can't even cover our own Americans who need medical care!

THIS.

+100

We are in Montgomery County and illegal immigration affects our lives on a daily basis in a negative way. It is insanity that people want this to continue for their own monetary benefit.

Who can afford unlimited support of endless foreigners pouring in?

People who live behind walls and send their kids to private school

LOL

DP who lives in Montgomery County

I say this to DH all the time. It’s the same hypocritical people who have the ‘No Human is Illegal’ signs who forego public school because it’s ‘not challenging enough’ for their kid. When in reality, they simply want their kid to go to school with more white people and no ESOL kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Vitriol aside. I live in Northern Virginia. I do believe there is a serious crisis at our southern border. I have addressed this with Senator Kaine, Warner and Congressman Beyer via phone call. I will tell you, they say constituents are more concerned with impeachment then with border security.

I personally am very, very concerned about our borders. I have also written Speaker Pelosi as well as Chuck Shumer.

I do not understant why we would give up USA safety in America after fighting for world safety in WWII given lives lost.

I hope our Congress will work with President Trump and soon.

Good for you for reaching out to them. I live in northern VA too and dont even waste my time as I know they will blow off any concerns about illegal immigration. Our senators are so popular they can sit around and do nothing and still win. They have no intention of addressing the issue of illegal immigration- particularly in how it impacts our schools. I'm pretty disillusioned by the while issue.

And this is why Trumo will win again.

Exactly. President Trump will win again. Most Americans understand we just can't fund the medical care for everyone who wants to come here. Hell, we can't even cover our own Americans who need medical care!

THIS.

+100

We are in Montgomery County and illegal immigration affects our lives on a daily basis in a negative way. It is insanity that people want this to continue for their own monetary benefit.

Who can afford unlimited support of endless foreigners pouring in?

People who live behind walls and send their kids to private school

LOL

DP who lives in Montgomery County

I say this to DH all the time. It’s the same hypocritical people who have the ‘No Human is Illegal’ signs who forego public school because it’s ‘not challenging enough’ for their kid. When in reality, they simply want their kid to go to school with more white people and no ESOL kids.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Wait until there are only 3 types of neighborhoods in America: prohibitively expensive ones, the ones nobody wants to live in, and nice and affordable but with severe lack of jobs.

[Anonymous]

“In the Age of Trump, all conversations about immigration descend into dueling spasms of culture-war outrage.”. - wonderful book by Reihan Salam.

We need to be better than this for the children and families. We need to work together to make this right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“In the Age of Trump, all conversations about immigration descend into dueling spasms of culture-war outrage.”. - wonderful book by Reihan Salam.

We need to be better than this for the children and families. We need to work together to make this right.

The only way is to drastically decrease immigration.
The saturation point is reached.
A culture can only absorb so many ppl who are different. Then the assimilation occurs and it’s ready for a
New wave.
I say this as an immigrant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“In the Age of Trump, all conversations about immigration descend into dueling spasms of culture-war outrage.”. - wonderful book by Reihan Salam.

We need to be better than this for the children and families. We need to work together to make this right.

The only way is to drastically decrease immigration.
The saturation point is reached.
A culture can only absorb so many ppl who are different. Then the assimilation occurs and it’s ready for a
New wave.
I say this as an immigrant.

Estimates are that across the glob 700 million people would like to move to a different country.
For 165 million people, their first choice would be the United States.

Admitting them all would be detrimental to "us" and to them.

Who decides what the number of acceptable new admissions is? We decide. Annually. We can take more, it's just MORE ethical for them to be fully accepted, documented and legal. To have an underclass enter at the border like this isn't right. For ANYONE.

But no, we do not need to decrease immigration. You, above, are conflating a couple of points.

[Anonymous]

We NEED a moderate approach here people. Being a hair shy of open borders, and being creepily nationalistic ..... these two points are ping-ponging back and forth and back and forth.

Please, I beg both parties to work together to
1) immediately FIX reports of inhumane conditions AND get all detained children back to their parents. Like, yesterday.
2) put together a map for accepting the immigrants we want and need, including some of those who are here
3) put up an e-verify "wall" that would be much more effective than any physical barrier (esp against *oh yeah* airplane arrivals!)