Congress could so easily make this issue go away. Why are so many fooled by fodder?
Rs on immigration:
Just build a wall and immigration will go away.
Making Mexico hold asylum-seekers is sound policy.
We will turn a blind eye for all the immigrants working shit jobs no one else wants to work.
Ds on immigration:
All immigrants should be treated with compassion.
Want to give amnesty to DACA recipients.
Then turn around and say we'll get it under control.
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The US. Chamber of Congress and big business lobby Congress for unlimited immigration of cheap labor. The majority of US. Citizens are totally opposed to allowing illegal immigrants to flood our country with people who only suck up welfare, schools, and health care while contributing nothing.
Congress only pays attention to the lobbies that give them the most money.
Our political system has become totally corrupt.
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See my post below.
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Long as we're talking about immigration and shit.
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Additionally, the President's party controls both houses and he received the most votes in history.
Is your argument that if something was not corrected in the past, it can never be corrected?
Link: President Biden’s Executive Actions on Immigration
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Another BS I can call you out on?
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Immigrants are following the law that is on the books. True or False? Let's start there.
Once again if we want to change the laws on the books that is Congress (e.g. Legislative branch). True or False?
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The Republicans were historically the party that was pro-immigration. They wanted more H1 and H2 visas to keep costs down. It was Reagan who granted Amnesty to millions of illegals in the 80s. (I-9s were supposed to limit the demand for future illegal immigration back in 1986, but have not been an effective deterant.)
Democrats in the 80s beholden to organized labor, fought to limit immigration to keep unskilled and semiskilled wages high. Some unions still hold this view, but others seem immigrants as their primary opportunity for growth so this is shifting.
This whole Republicans oppose immigration and Democratics favor it is a relatively new phenomenon over the past 20 years.
Orange could have had his wall in exchange for DACA. The crazies said no dice.
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Neither are the ones of the Capitol invasion. The point is the issue could be fixed if there was a will to do so. There isn’t because too many elected officials want it as an issue to run on.
Elected officials may not have the will to address it properly...whatever one believes that to be...but that doesn't mean the public doesn't give a shit about it.
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Of course, who know what mischief our recent invaders may perpetrate between now and then? I mean the vetting process was cavalier.
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In 2018, non-citizens constitute only about 7 percent of the U.S. population. Yet the latest data from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that non-citizens accounted for nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of all federal arrests in 2018. Just two decades earlier, only 37 percent of all federal arrests were non-citizens.
These arrests aren’t just for immigration crimes. Non-citizens accounted for 24 percent of all federal drug arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all federal fraud arrests.
In 2018, a quarter of all federal drug arrests took place in the five judicial districts along the U.S.-Mexico border. This reflects the ongoing activities of Mexican drug cartels. Last year, Mexican citizens accounted for 40 percent of all federal arrests.
In fact, more Mexicans than U.S. citizens were arrested on charges of committing federal crimes in 2018.
Link: https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/crimes-illegal-immigrants-widespread-across-us-sanctuaries-shouldnt
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pretty clear as to their motivation. Large turnouts are kryptonite to the R’s. This time around proved it. On the Capitol, as I said to SRD, you can quibble over the word insurrection, but it was clearly a riot and an illegal invasion designed to interrupt the certification of the vote.
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