If I Ran: Immigration

[strredwolf]

From Twitter, but I'd like to start a series called "If I Ran":

Some folks wonder why I (carefully) pick some political posts to retweet. It's because the latest trend is to forget history and forget investigating into the real causes of issues. #thread time again. I'm going to take Illegal Immigration for an example first.

Lets first get down to the actual numbers coming out from the US Customs & Border Patrol. They say that the amount of illegal immigration is actually dropping over the decade. They also say that an abundant majority of illegal immigration isn't folks jumping the border.

No. They say it's people overstaying their visas, by a factor of 6 to 1. So why is Trump building a wall through private property when we can't enforce the front door?

Now lets drill down to the "crisis" at the Mexican border, where folks are lining up to claim asylum from Honduras, due to gang violence and government corruption. That sounds like an international problem to me, not a local problem.

So why don't we start yanking funding from all these countries who can't get their act together to stamp out what's driving these folks out, and assist where it's truly needed... ...including replacing whole governments that are ineffective.

Now, I'm also hearing reports that asylum seekers are waiting upwards of a year to have their case heard, where they are released into the population. That's abusable on two fronts. Asylum cases should never take that long, and we should be holding folks for that.


Thus, we need more asylum judges. Lots more. They should be paid to be bored, and we should never have a case take longer than a month to be heard. Meanwhile, we clothe, feed, and medically check each asylum seeker for that period. We end "catch & release."

If we PROVABLY need a border wall, fine. But if the border goes across the middle of a property, and land owners don't want it on their property, then we declare the entire property shared by Mexico & the US. They get to pay taxes for BOTH countries.

And when I say PROVABLY I mean "This will stand up all the way to the Supreme Court, and boy howdy we're going to get sued all the way up our butts no matter what, better make sure it'll stick."

 

 

I have more faith in the court system, as bad as it is, over any Congress critter or Presidential figure head. This is America. You will get sued. Get over it.