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yet his policies encourage it. not to harp on it but talk is simply talk. it ain't working and even dems along the border are furious.One of the real problems with this is that encouraging human trafficking has greatly enriched the criminal elements in their native countries. Biden signaling his willingness to open the doors gave cartels thousands of new paying customers.on the surface, i think this is a great start. but immigration is being used to further hate and divide and face it, as long as you and i can't even openly talk about this in a forum w/o it dovetailing into the abyss of personal attacks, what chance do we as a whole have to resolve where to pee, much less immigration issues or anything major?from what i understand, coyotes (not coyote) used children under trump too. people have been abandoning children for a long time. to put this on biden and biden alone is just as strange to me as when the left tied every whack-a-mole extremist to trump.These poor children are being used and abused by smugglers and cartels as a direct result of Biden's border policies. I hope the liberals that support this crap have nightmares about what they've done to these kids.
Border crisis: 5 unaccompanied migrant girls found abandoned in Texas
Five abandoned migrant girls, all under the age of 7, were discovered Sunday by a Texas farmer on his land in Quemado, near the Rio Grande River.www.foxnews.com
you do it to try to discredit the other but it doesn't help the situation itself.
As long as there is money to be made trafficking there are people willing to sink to whatever depths to get it. People making money off very desperate people. I'm not sure what the solution is but it seems that several possibles are:
1. working closely with Mexico to apprehend coyotes and make sure they face very harsh penalties. The remain in Mexico policy left people stranded indefinitely at camps in some of the most violent and lawless areas of Mexico. If any semblance of that policy remains than we should also work with Mexico to help fund humanitarian aid and security for the migrants. Unfortunately I think there is a diplomatic tiff with Mexico at the moment.
2. working with the countries they are coming from, to try and fix some of the "push" factors and reduce the stream of people leaving.
3. Fix our own system. The immigration courts are notoriously undermanned. It's crazy that people have to wait as long as they do for an asylum hearing.
4. Other thoughts?
to me it is critical we work with these countries to understand why people want to leave. the question is - how far do we go to advocate change in their countries? if they want to be the cause for people to leave, now what? 1 and 2 are a mix to me but both needed, to be sure.
fix our own system. we've tried. reagan offered amnesty if we'd stop letting illegals get jobs. keep this from happening again. the deal was struck, amnesty was granted, but the democrats backed out and didn't enforce their side. we were supposed to fix it then, not have another DREAMERS issue again today. what has changed to make me trust the dems would work to stop the illegals if we do amnesty AGAIN?
Why Immigrants Were Given Legal Status by Ronald Reagan
"They provide a vital source of labor for the agricultural, manufacturing and restaurant industries in states where they settle in numbers, yet their status is shadowy—never quite tolerated, never quite rejected."www.newsweek.com
so tell me - how do we fix it when one side doesn't want to as it gives them leverage?
Biden specifically said do not come.
while i don't put human nature on biden, he's not even trying to address the issue.
I agree his statements might have encouraged increased immigration, but I don't know that he is not trying - this is not something with a quick fix so I'm willing to give him some time - he's only been in office 4 months. It's also notable what is being ignored. Illegal immigration showed very little decrease under Trump, despite harsh policies, so you have to ask - what's driving it? The push factors must be stronger than the pull factors if people are willing to take enormous risks like that just to come to a place that actively despises them..
The other thing driving immigration - that's not talked about right now - is the Covid induced economic crisis. We are also seeing an increase in Mexican men coming for work because Mexico's economy really suffered from Covid. Those people I believe are being turned away.