Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:13
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Not just medical, but we pay for the processing, court cases, housing, etc. of all these people.
We need a wall.
none of the people in the article are here illegally. a wall doesn't address the issue.
So, it is your contention that people are not crossing illegally in areas where we have no border barrier?
Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:13
Subject: Re:Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Anonymous wrote:I cannot understand how our Democratic members of Congress cannot admit that we are at a crisis level. What will it take?
And, I saw a report recently that said the number of illegal immigrants in our country is sorely underestimated. It is likely it is doubled what has been estimated.
Anyone who says this isn't a crisis is not living in reality.
The number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. could be double what the generally accepted estimate is, according to a study released Friday by researchers from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The U.S. government and most groups put the number of undocumented immigrants at around 11 million to 12 million, but researchers from Yale and MIT give a “conservative” number of 16. 7 million in 2016 and an average of 22 million, according to Yale Insights.
Bloomberg reported the study could validate claims made by President Trump that the real number on undocumented immigrants in the country is as high as 30 million and could offer ammunition for the president and immigration critics to take a harder stance on the issue.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-us-may-be-twice-whats-reported-yale-mit-study
And anyone who cites Faux News on immigration is immediately discounted. Bye bye.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:12
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Trump has become the Orange One Who Cried Wolf. 8000 documented lies into his administration, who knows what the truth is? But no one trusts that the numbers from his administration are real or that he is telling the truth now. And he has himself to blame.
If he were capable of finding a truthful statement, like ever, maybe people would take this seriously. But he’s been using inflammatory border Rhetoric for 3 years, and people are tuning him out.
Also, in terms of actual numbers, border crossings are still low, relative to other times in the last 30 years.
If he were capable of finding a truthful statement, like ever, maybe people would take this seriously. But he’s been using inflammatory border Rhetoric for 3 years, and people are tuning him out.
Also, in terms of actual numbers, border crossings are still low, relative to other times in the last 30 years.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:12
Subject: Re:Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
I cannot understand how our Democratic members of Congress cannot admit that we are at a crisis level. What will it take?
And, I saw a report recently that said the number of illegal immigrants in our country is sorely underestimated. It is likely it is doubled what has been estimated.
Anyone who says this isn't a crisis is not living in reality.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-us-may-be-twice-whats-reported-yale-mit-study
And, I saw a report recently that said the number of illegal immigrants in our country is sorely underestimated. It is likely it is doubled what has been estimated.
Anyone who says this isn't a crisis is not living in reality.
The number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. could be double what the generally accepted estimate is, according to a study released Friday by researchers from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The U.S. government and most groups put the number of undocumented immigrants at around 11 million to 12 million, but researchers from Yale and MIT give a “conservative” number of 16. 7 million in 2016 and an average of 22 million, according to Yale Insights.
Bloomberg reported the study could validate claims made by President Trump that the real number on undocumented immigrants in the country is as high as 30 million and could offer ammunition for the president and immigration critics to take a harder stance on the issue.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-us-may-be-twice-whats-reported-yale-mit-study
Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:05
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Anonymous wrote:Not just medical, but we pay for the processing, court cases, housing, etc. of all these people.
We need a wall.
none of the people in the article are here illegally. a wall doesn't address the issue.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:04
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
More judges, more border control employees.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 17:01
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Anonymous wrote:Stop hiring undocumented immigrants, stop separating children, send them back as a family to wait for their hearing.
I have at friend in this division.
backlogged cases . . . not so easy to process all of these folks
no win situation
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:55
Subject: Re:Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Anonymous wrote:What an amazing coincidence! At the exact same time Trump declares his BS "emergency" the border crossing numbers leap up.
The weird conspiracy theory you're trying (and failing) to concoct does not reflect well on you. At all.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:54
Subject: Re:Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
What an amazing coincidence! At the exact same time Trump declares his BS "emergency" the border crossing numbers leap up.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:50
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Stop hiring undocumented immigrants, stop separating children, send them back as a family to wait for their hearing.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:42
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
The Washington Post is also reporting on this crisis:
"Border officials said the large families groups are creating opportunities for smugglers because attention is diverted to the large groups. Border officials say they worry they’re spending too much time on migrant care and not enough on security."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ap-newsbreak-border-agents-using-firearms-less/2019/03/05/08b7db66-3f15-11e9-85ad-779ef05fd9d8_story.html?utm_term=.2ec47f05d33e
"Border officials said the large families groups are creating opportunities for smugglers because attention is diverted to the large groups. Border officials say they worry they’re spending too much time on migrant care and not enough on security."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ap-newsbreak-border-agents-using-firearms-less/2019/03/05/08b7db66-3f15-11e9-85ad-779ef05fd9d8_story.html?utm_term=.2ec47f05d33e
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:39
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Anonymous wrote:Dunno...seems like a bit of a crisis to me.
Seems like a national emergency to me, but of course Trump was mocked for saying that.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:39
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Not just medical, but we pay for the processing, court cases, housing, etc. of all these people.
We need a wall.
We need a wall.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:38
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
Dunno...seems like a bit of a crisis to me.
Anonymous
03/05/2019 16:34
Subject: Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More than 76,000 Migrants Cross in a Month
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/us/border-crossing-increase.html
Even the NYT admits that the U.S./Mexico border is in crisis due to the overwhelming number of immigrants trying to gain entrance.
"For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.
More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, more than double the levels from the same period last year and approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years.
“The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told reporters in announcing the new data.
“These solutions are temporary and this situation is not sustainable,” Mr. McAleenan said. “This is clearly both a border security and a humanitarian crisis.”
Beginning for the first time in October, members of families have come to outpace apprehensions of individual adult migrants. Mr. McAleenan said the authorities believe this is a result of smugglers having effectively communicated across Central America that adults who travel with children will be allowed to enter and stay in the United States.
“Crossing with a child is a guarantee of a speedy release and an indefinite release into the United States,” Mr. McAleenan said.
Brian Hastings, the agency’s chief of law enforcement operations, said that since April 2018, border agents had detected nearly 2,400 cases in which migrants had falsely claimed to be related when they were not, or untruthfully claimed to be younger than 18.
The larger numbers and the surge into more remote areas of the border have drawn new attention to longstanding problems with medical services provided by Customs and Border Protection. Migrant families, in particular, tend to arrive in urgent need of medical attention, the agency said, which has strained resources and drawn agents away from their law enforcement duties.
Last year, the agency referred 12,000 border crossers to emergency rooms for care, each one requiring an agent to wait with them at the hospital and ensure they were immediately returned to federal custody upon release. The rates of hospital referrals are increasing, the agency said, with about 145 agents per day currently acting as hospital escorts. Meanwhile, cocaine seizures for the current fiscal year have already exceeded the previous one, and methamphetamine seizures have also increased, according to the agency, a situation that also is demanding staff resources.
I find it unbelievable, to say the least, that the U.S. is supposed to pay for all of the medical attention these people need. Many of them arrive at the border extremely sick, and then our Border Patrol is blamed when they die in custody - as if we were responsible for them getting sick in the first place. Why isn't Mexico stopping these people and treating them rather than allowing them to continue to our border?
Even the NYT admits that the U.S./Mexico border is in crisis due to the overwhelming number of immigrants trying to gain entrance.
"For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.
More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, more than double the levels from the same period last year and approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years.
“The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told reporters in announcing the new data.
“These solutions are temporary and this situation is not sustainable,” Mr. McAleenan said. “This is clearly both a border security and a humanitarian crisis.”
Beginning for the first time in October, members of families have come to outpace apprehensions of individual adult migrants. Mr. McAleenan said the authorities believe this is a result of smugglers having effectively communicated across Central America that adults who travel with children will be allowed to enter and stay in the United States.
“Crossing with a child is a guarantee of a speedy release and an indefinite release into the United States,” Mr. McAleenan said.
Brian Hastings, the agency’s chief of law enforcement operations, said that since April 2018, border agents had detected nearly 2,400 cases in which migrants had falsely claimed to be related when they were not, or untruthfully claimed to be younger than 18.
The larger numbers and the surge into more remote areas of the border have drawn new attention to longstanding problems with medical services provided by Customs and Border Protection. Migrant families, in particular, tend to arrive in urgent need of medical attention, the agency said, which has strained resources and drawn agents away from their law enforcement duties.
Last year, the agency referred 12,000 border crossers to emergency rooms for care, each one requiring an agent to wait with them at the hospital and ensure they were immediately returned to federal custody upon release. The rates of hospital referrals are increasing, the agency said, with about 145 agents per day currently acting as hospital escorts. Meanwhile, cocaine seizures for the current fiscal year have already exceeded the previous one, and methamphetamine seizures have also increased, according to the agency, a situation that also is demanding staff resources.
I find it unbelievable, to say the least, that the U.S. is supposed to pay for all of the medical attention these people need. Many of them arrive at the border extremely sick, and then our Border Patrol is blamed when they die in custody - as if we were responsible for them getting sick in the first place. Why isn't Mexico stopping these people and treating them rather than allowing them to continue to our border?