The border drama is all political showboating. The real solutions have been manifest for a long time. They do not include building a symbolic billion dollar wall. They include removal of the welfare state magnet which draws people to the US for the wrong reasons, free up financing for immigration reform by reducing the war footprint across the globe and eliminate the war on drugs. Streamline the system so that there are not unreasonable waiting periods and view these people as the potential assets they are and not label them criminals and terrorists.
I thought the answer if one wanted to limit immigration was to crack down on employers hiring them. That is the wrong reason people come here for afterall, for work, it's why even the caravan doesn't want to stay in Mexico, better work in the U.S.. They have said as much.
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Border drama: Vermont
Just saw that the Border Patrol is in Grand Isle mapping out checkpoints on the island!! We are 26 miles from Canada and apparently the federal government has the authority to put checkpoints anywhere within 100 miles of the border. This is ridiculous!! The local paper has tried to get information from them and they won't give any.
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L, comparing those people’s plight to the DMV is insulting. Do you sit outside for days with no shelter waiting to enter? Catherine, another example of wasting the taxpayers money for nothing.
You can alert the empathy police for aggravated insensitivity if you like, but I still maintain that the adequacy or lack thereof of the bureaucratic infrastructure to deal with an artificially created surge in asylum applications justifies what we saw the other day. The organizers of this ugly circus could simply bring up an even larger group the next time.
I do agree that taking the measures most advanced countries employ to limit the ability of people here illegally to work would go a long way toward solving the problem.
This isn't some remote. Border crossing in the middle of nowhere. It's an urban area near San Diego.. Maybe I'm wrong but I think there are probably plenty of hotels/buildings that could provide accommodation and facilities suitable for asylum hearings. I also doubt that immigration judges consult legal libraries very often for run of the mill asylum cases. I'm willing to be swayed on this if someone would like to provide statistics showing otherwise.
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