May 4, 2023·edited May 4, 2023Liked by David Thornton
David, you are correct in many respects. Title 42 is currently nothing but a pretext. Effective legislation could improve the situation. Effective legislation will never occur unless there is a one-party monopoly running the country.
Where you are wrong is suggesting that existing laws should not be enforced because it is impractical. The most convincing estimates I can find suggest that there are about 25 million illegal immigrants in the USA who are producing, under current laws, thousands of new poverty-stricken citizens each year at a tremendous social and economic cost. Regardless of how they got here, they can be deported using existing laws. With existing manpower, we should be able to deport several thousand per week which might be a deterrent. Suppose that, instead of 85,000 new IRS agents, we had 60,000 new immigration enforcement agents and 20.000 new immigration judges. We could then hear about 3.1 million more asylum claims per year resulting in an additional 2.5 million deportations.
Even easier enforcement and deterrence could be realized by cracking down on employers who hire illegals either under the table or by not verifying SSNs.
"The only way to pass either side’s priorities is with a comprehensive bill that has support from both parties." Remember Rush Limbaugh denigrating moderates? I can hear the sound of his jowls flapping as he rolled the word "moderate" out of his mouth and, well, here we are. A disgustingly sad state of affairs.
Shit. This is a really good article and everyone who holds any power in DC should be reading it. Normally I have some petty nitpick but this is literally perfect.
Informed immigration Laws are the long term answer, as a Canadian I can tell you the answer is at the northern border of the US. Trump had the short term answer to holding back the flood of illegal asylum seekers but the Left has vilified it so much that there is no chance of this administration moving towards it. I remember the screams over the alleged separating of kids from parents yet it is happening now at the immigrant family end and no one is saying a word. Here is something else that is never reported, during Bidens' administration the death toll of illegals crossing the border has risen 300% or more. No one reports the murders that the Bidens administration's policies and actions have been responsible for at the southern border. That is far worse than any kids sitting behind a chain link fence having their identities verified.
Another item to add: Proud Boys found guilty of seditious conspiracy!
That makes 14 convictions for seditious conspiracy thus far.
David, you are correct in many respects. Title 42 is currently nothing but a pretext. Effective legislation could improve the situation. Effective legislation will never occur unless there is a one-party monopoly running the country.
Where you are wrong is suggesting that existing laws should not be enforced because it is impractical. The most convincing estimates I can find suggest that there are about 25 million illegal immigrants in the USA who are producing, under current laws, thousands of new poverty-stricken citizens each year at a tremendous social and economic cost. Regardless of how they got here, they can be deported using existing laws. With existing manpower, we should be able to deport several thousand per week which might be a deterrent. Suppose that, instead of 85,000 new IRS agents, we had 60,000 new immigration enforcement agents and 20.000 new immigration judges. We could then hear about 3.1 million more asylum claims per year resulting in an additional 2.5 million deportations.
Even easier enforcement and deterrence could be realized by cracking down on employers who hire illegals either under the table or by not verifying SSNs.
"The only way to pass either side’s priorities is with a comprehensive bill that has support from both parties." Remember Rush Limbaugh denigrating moderates? I can hear the sound of his jowls flapping as he rolled the word "moderate" out of his mouth and, well, here we are. A disgustingly sad state of affairs.
Shit. This is a really good article and everyone who holds any power in DC should be reading it. Normally I have some petty nitpick but this is literally perfect.
Informed immigration Laws are the long term answer, as a Canadian I can tell you the answer is at the northern border of the US. Trump had the short term answer to holding back the flood of illegal asylum seekers but the Left has vilified it so much that there is no chance of this administration moving towards it. I remember the screams over the alleged separating of kids from parents yet it is happening now at the immigrant family end and no one is saying a word. Here is something else that is never reported, during Bidens' administration the death toll of illegals crossing the border has risen 300% or more. No one reports the murders that the Bidens administration's policies and actions have been responsible for at the southern border. That is far worse than any kids sitting behind a chain link fence having their identities verified.