Smart policies and the allocation of adequate resources would allow the U.S. to accept and fairly process asylum seekers in a timely fashion. This would not only be good policy, but good politics. Most voters — and the overwhelming majority of the president’s base — support a fair and legal asylum system and reject exclusionary, Trump-style policies.
How is it possible that the LA Times reporter is this ignorant on presidential power? Funding and policy are determined by Congress. The President can only restrict entry, detain, or do nothing and allow our broken immigration system to continue busing migrants to be homeless in sanctuary cities.
Every critic has plenty of condemnation, but offers no tangible solution by the hands of POTUS. What is he supposed to do? All they write about is what he shouldn’t be doing.
We need comprehensive immigration reform from Congress to support the very different immigration situation than the one addressed by the policy in place. It was created in 1986 and amended in 2019 to provide protections for minors.
Until then, what should we do when we run out of state resources?
Because ‘fixing’ immigration isn’t a thing we can honestly do, outside of these hard line closed border moves.
Reagan borked it up with the war on drugs. Empowering gangs/militias/contras, causing pervasive and persistent violence that drives displacement of the locals in South America. Before then, the US experienced seasonal migration via a “porous border” - as it wasn’t really a challenge to cross, and enforcement was lax stateside of green cards/paperwork, there was significant seasonal migration that would cycle into the US, work hard and live cheap for a few months, and return to their families.
Hardening the border and documentation requirements killed that “loopback”. Initially migrants shifted to immigration and would stay in the US as primary domicile, taking long trips back to their family. But with the growing violence in the south, it makes more sense to bring your family to the US.
We absolutely need overhaul, but there’s so many fingers, voting groups, and special interests in this pie…
Congress could replace the Reagan era immigration legislation that we use today with new legislation that would address the nation’s needs and the needs of immigrants.
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