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.
I’m disgusted that all this has to be rolled into a giant ball to even have a chance of passing.
We gotta keep supplying arms to a genocidal ally? Fuck Israel. They’ve had 70-years to get their shit together and stand on their own. Fuck Israel.
Our southern border is a whole separate issue. Yes, it’s fucking bad down there and the influx of migrants is unprecedented. We got a real fucking problem, and while I don’t have answers, that has nothing to do with either issue.
We gotta roll Ukrainian aid into all this? FFS, Republicans find it controversial to arm our ally against our fucking arch enemy?! We have the opportunity to give old (but solid!) gear to fight a proxy war against Russia, gather intelligence on modern warfare strategy and tactics, and the GOP fucks around?! FFS, now is the time to crush Russia for once and for all. What was it Kruschev said? “We will BURY you!”
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
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The $118 billion package includes a series of provisions aimed at reducing record-high crossings at the southern border and tightening an asylum system that has been overwhelmed by migrants fleeing their homes to seek refuge.
James Lankford, R-Okla., Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. — would be the most aggressive border security and migration overhaul bill in decades if it passes Congress.
Current and former DHS officials had told NBC News that the emergency shutdown provision in the bill would cause chaos and may not be effective unless Mexico agreed to take more migrants turned away from the U.S.
Two days after Biden launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed targets in the Middle East in retaliation for the deaths of three U.S. servicemembers, congressional leaders also included $2.44 billion to support U.S. Central Command operations and to pay for combat expenses linked to the conflict in the Red Sea.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., praised the bill for providing “direct and immediate solutions to the crisis at our southern border.” He added that America’s sovereignty “is being tested here at home” and that adversaries are watching.
As Johnson faces pressure from his right flank, House Republicans are readying a floor vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, one of several administration officials who met with senators as they crafted the new immigration deal.
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