The problem with the US southern border isn’t the massive numbers of immigrants, it is our own US government. Both Congress and the White House are at fault, over some 7 decades since the end of World War 2. Congresses and Presidents of both parties are at fault. This is simply neglect of their sworn duty, resulting in a variety of criminal outcomes under established law. Simple as that. And just that ugly, too!
When you hear politicians disparaging the threat of
terrorists, criminals, and evil-doers “invading” across our
border, you are being lied to, for political gain! The facts on the ground show that, statistically speaking, both guest workers (legal and
illegal), and refugees (whether
ultimately admitted or not) are actually more law-abiding than the average US
citizen! It is the smugglers and drug
cartels that are the real threat to public safety, and they are a tiny minority of all those crossing
the border!
When you hear politicians advocating for deporting any refugee
without a hearing to reduce the purported invasion, you are being lied to for political
gain! Refugees have the legal
right under long-settled US law to a hearing before a federal immigration
judge. They have to be in the US in
order to attend their own hearing, in
any practical sense. Denying them this due
process is not just a crime under federal law,
it is also a crime against humanity under international law! But those same lying politicians failed to
tell you that, didn’t they?
When you hear politicians shouting about sealing or
securing the border, you are
being lied to for political gain!
They are really talking about building a border wall, which inherently cannot solve this problem, but it does line the pockets of the supporters
and cronies who get hired to build it!
Until very recently, most of this
immigration problem, and the DACA
problem, were created by politicians neglectfully
setting the guest worker quotas far too low for decades, and also by refusing to staff up to address
realistic quotas.
As the figure shows,
the refugee quotas have never been more than about 200-thousand-ish in
any given year. Guest worker quotas are
similar, but smaller. We actually get 10
to 100 times that many guest workers,
which is why there is something like 10 million illegal aliens in this
country. That disparity tells you how
out-of-balance our policies are with our laws and the facts on the ground. And it is our very same lying politicians who
have allowed that to happen. They have
been doing that since the end of World War 2.
When you hear politicians lumping all immigrants into the
same threat category, you are
being lied to for political gain!
There are guest workers, who are
an integral part of our economy, legal
or not, and always have been. To survive they must come: the jobs are here, they are there, and Americans demonstrably do not want to do
those jobs. And then there are
refugees, who are now in recent years the bigger problem, but one ABSOLUTELY NOT
under our control!
Refugees are driven here by an ever-increasing number of
failed states in Central and South America and the Caribbean, and more recently also around the world. People escaping those failed states are not
at all deterred by our bureaucratic impediments, they would quite simply rather die than stay
where they are. That’s desperation in
the face of death. Which is the DEFINITION
of a refugee!
And then there are the border smugglers, of both people and of drugs. Our border patrol people could be far
more effective against the drug smugglers,
if they weren’t swamped with illegal guest workers and illegal refugees. There would be no illegal guest workers and
unadmitted refugees if our government did those jobs correctly, and that would free-up our border patrol
agents to go after the drug smugglers. But
your lying politicians failed to tell you that,
as well!
I published an article on this problem back in January of
2019, here on this site. It has 3 updates added to it, but I see no reason to change a single word
of what I wrote back then! That article
has more detail about all of these issues,
and more explanation of what I am talking about here. I recommend that you go to it and read
it!
There is a fast navigation tool on the left side of this
page. You need the date and title of the
article you seek. Click on the
year, then the month, then the title. That earlier immigration article was “Border
Crisis? Nope!”, dated 17 January 2019.
All I can recommend to you now is that you cease
re-electing the self-serving politicians who have been lying to you! Start electing people who might be willing to
tell you the real truth! It doesn’t
matter what party they are associated with,
you could not do any worse than what you have right now!
Real truth is not something you hear in an echo chamber on
social media, where you never hear a
dissenting view because of the algorithms recommending stuff to maximize ad
revenue. And it is not something you
will hear from the various cable TV news services, desperate to fill time 24/7 and draw in
advertising, to the exclusion of any
ethics. The closest thing you will hear
to the truth is from most (but not all) of the old-time traditional media
(broadcast TV networks and the newspapers),
and even they are flawed. But
they are the least flawed.
You need to peruse multiple sources. But they need to be sources that at least try
to tell you the truth, flawed or not. Or else your efforts to find the truth will be
pointlessly in vain.
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Once again, the earlier article that I see no need to change is:1-17-19 Border
“Crisis”? Nope
I agree with you. The US has had naturally open borders from the south since the 1840s. And I've encountered individuals who have crossed the southern border from as far away as Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteHowever, with a global refugee crisis of over 100 million people, I do think the US could set a good example for other nations by creating real sanctuary cities for refugees and guest workers.
These would simply be walled Hong Kong-like cities within the US specifically designed to house and employ refugees but also allows US citizens to live and work there. Sanctuary Cities would be designated by the Congress as 'International Territories" under the administration of the US government. So children born in a Sanctuary City would not be born as American citizens unless they had a parent who was a US citizen.
The guest workers come, legal or not, because they have to. They would actually prefer to be legal. They are integral to the US economy, and they do pay taxes. It only makes sense to match the worker visa quota to the real demand, and then staff up enough to track the visas. That frees the border patrol of an enormous load.
DeleteThe refugees have a legal right to a hearing before an immigration judge. We simply need to staff up the immigration courts to handle the increased load in a timely fashion, which is weeks, not years like it is now. That also takes an enormous load off the border patrol.
Do those two things right, and there is no need for a wall, very little need for deportations, no need for sanctuary cities, and we would have a border patrol able to intercept the drug smugglers. The DACA problem goes away in less than a generation.
It might help the violence in Mexico if both they and the US declared war on the drug cartels, and literally wiped them from the face of the Earth with military firepower. Where those leaders live in luxury is known.
That makes them a target for any big weapon that flies to coordinates and explodes. It's called a cruise missile. You do all of them at at once by surprise, before any of them can flee.
Americans spend about $150 billion a year on illegal drugs. So unless you dramatically reduce domestic demand, we're always going to have an illegal drug problem.
DeleteDemand drives supply, true, but those making and selling the drugs do not need to be as large, organized, and powerful as they currently are. -- GW
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