Why doesn’t America hire hundreds more immigration judges to hear all these cases and get the backlog down? Having asylum seekers here for years before their court date is a disservice to them and to Americans as well.
Because undocumented workers are easier to exploit and, by extension, make all workers easier to exploit. And those who exploit the workers fund the politics. They can afford to because of all those workers they exploit.
Well you see that would actually be useful, and we cant have that.
The worst part about this is that whether it passes or not, Republicans won’t stop whining about a border “crisis” every second a Democrat is in office. There’s nothing in this bill that a majority of Republicans don’t support. It inflicts no pain on them for manufacturing a crisis — it somehow doesn’t exist in other border states? — and doing stupid stunts. All it will teach them is that it works.
I’d tell them to get fucked sideways until they fund the child tax credit. And I’d do everything possible to harm Texas Republicans while freezing them out of negotiations. Every industrial site in that state would have an OSHA inspector stop by. Zero projects would be approved without years of reviews.
What’s so infuriating about this is 30-40 years ago this bill would have passed 90-10 in the senate and 400-35 in the house. This is the true awful of what Trump has done and continues to do.
What’s disgusting is that with a tiny minority Nazis are running our country because nobody has the guts to stand up to them.
Plenty of people have the guts just not the power.
They wouldn’t necessarily mind standing up to them but it would mean working with the opposite side and that is too much to ask.
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The only thing unprecedented is the number of apprehensions. Migration was much higher earlier in the century.
The annual total — which includes people who were stopped at the border more than once — jumped by 37% from 1.7 million the year before.
That isn’t to suggest 2022 saw the largest number of people trying to enter the U.S. illegally. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security estimates that there were nearly 4 million unauthorized border crossings in 2000 but only 1.6 million were counted. Over the years, immigration authorities have been able to track more migrants as a result of improved security technology.
https://www.npr.org/2022/10/24/1130841306/new-record-in-border-patrol-apprehensions
