Ibanez wrote:CID1990 wrote:
Border crossings last year were way down over uncertainty with the Trump admin’s intentions regarding asylum hearings, TPS, whether or not bring a kid was beneficial, etc-
But part of your assertion shows how desensitized we have become to illegal immigration- 400,000 people is a big number. We cant completely stop it but we can improve on it. But if 400,000 cross over each year, and we manage to 9A half of them and the other half disappear... guess where we are again in 20 years? Talking about Dreamers.
Trump says a lot of dumb and untrue things about his wall but an enhanced physical barrier IS a part of the larger solution. Even Steny Hoyer conceded this point yesterday (and I’m sure he’s getting a scolding today)
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I'm not against a barrier. Trump wants a wall to span to the entire border. At least that is what he has said and promised and then took back. So who the **** knows. ~650 miles of the ~1,950 border has a wall/fence of some kind. There are 48 crossings with about 300 PoE. Much of the border that isn't walled is a river. Should sections be repaired/updated? Sure. Should some sections with high traffic be beefed up? Yes. We know the high traffic areas and where there are sometimes TWO walls (which also happened to have tunnels underneath them to sneak into the US). But the wall is only 1 part and I don't think it's the most important part of the solution.
But I think you'd agree that a wall will not do the job alone. I defer to your expertise but I still don't believe a wall like Trump wants is the answer.
On Fox News yesterday, the mayor of San Diego (R) was going on and on about the wall
I’ve said a physical barrier is a part of the total border picture - on this forum- numerous times. Until I was blue in the face
even when Trump was campaigning on the wall it was pretty much conventional wisdom that there were significant stretches of the border that don’t need a wall.
But there are also significant areas where people are simply walking in. I know this because I was processing these people on spousal visas- after they had been across the border, then got caught weeks or months later, and then got paroled in to the country due to the court backlog and lack of detention facilities, THEN got married, and then ten years later come back to their country of origin for their immigrant visa (with a past asylum claim... guess they were suddenly up afraid of El Salvador) and get granted a waiver of their ineligibilities by USCIS on account of their marriage to a USC.
Anyone who knows anything about what happens AFTER an alien sets foot on US soil knows that preventing entries without inspection in the first place is an area where we need to be putting significant resources if we are truly serious about border security.
One other thought on the matter - all of these people bring kids with them. Kids are a one way ticket to being paroled in, because we cannot detain them without separating them (and we see what happened when it was tried). However, a large number of EWIs walk across with the aid of coyotes. It doesn’t take much extension of our physical barriers to make this MUCH more difficult ... kids just can’t make the long treks to get to where we don’t have a wall/fence. Simply making it more difficult will dissuade at least a portion of these people from making the attempt - because they know that if they don’t have the kid with them they are wasting their time and money.
I'm pretty sure 93 didn't vote for him the first time, so....
I hate Hillary Clinton.
