Border Patrol won’t say they are useless. Bureaucracy has to justify its existence. Handwaving about nebulous immigration threats works for them.
Alternately, they could develop a rational immigration policy such that people coming here to work and improve their lives have a reasonable way in. And therefore the criminals wouldn’t have millions of the desperate to mask their movements.
I work with and around a lot of immigrants that got here illegally and are building a life that looks like the American dream.
Building on the Star Trek meme of the “old Vulcan saying that it took Nixon to go to China”, I remember it as if it were yesterday when President George W Bush in an Oval Office address looked the TV audience in the eye through the camera lens, spoke to the necessity you speak of for Comprehensive Immigration Reform along with his plan for the same.
He had me persuaded, but the plan went nowhere. I am thinking his speech “lit the Congressional switchboard”, and not to show support. But if “W” couldn’t make progress on this issue there is no way, no how that Mr. Biden will.
There is a substantial population of Americans, probably not a majority but a big enough minority under a Constitution giving power to such a minority, to effectively veto the rational immigration policy in the form it had been offered by President Bush, The Gang of Eight US senators and others.
The “elites”, and I count myself as member of this class, are effectively insulated from the social cost of our current immigrant influx. I agree that there are benefits to immigration, legal or otherwise, but there are also social costs, and our elites are blind to the segments of our society bearing more of the costs.
Those “Hate has no home here” yard signs in my affluent, college-town neighborhood are effectively calling vasts numbers of our fellow Americans bigots. I regard the failure of Comprehensive Immigration Reform as the failure of our leadership class to understand the life experiences and thought process of the substantial number of American citizens who see thing differently.
I’m surprised they said that part out loud
Border Patrol won’t say they are useless. Bureaucracy has to justify its existence. Handwaving about nebulous immigration threats works for them.
Alternately, they could develop a rational immigration policy such that people coming here to work and improve their lives have a reasonable way in. And therefore the criminals wouldn’t have millions of the desperate to mask their movements.
I work with and around a lot of immigrants that got here illegally and are building a life that looks like the American dream.
Building on the Star Trek meme of the “old Vulcan saying that it took Nixon to go to China”, I remember it as if it were yesterday when President George W Bush in an Oval Office address looked the TV audience in the eye through the camera lens, spoke to the necessity you speak of for Comprehensive Immigration Reform along with his plan for the same.
He had me persuaded, but the plan went nowhere. I am thinking his speech “lit the Congressional switchboard”, and not to show support. But if “W” couldn’t make progress on this issue there is no way, no how that Mr. Biden will.
There is a substantial population of Americans, probably not a majority but a big enough minority under a Constitution giving power to such a minority, to effectively veto the rational immigration policy in the form it had been offered by President Bush, The Gang of Eight US senators and others.
The “elites”, and I count myself as member of this class, are effectively insulated from the social cost of our current immigrant influx. I agree that there are benefits to immigration, legal or otherwise, but there are also social costs, and our elites are blind to the segments of our society bearing more of the costs.
Those “Hate has no home here” yard signs in my affluent, college-town neighborhood are effectively calling vasts numbers of our fellow Americans bigots. I regard the failure of Comprehensive Immigration Reform as the failure of our leadership class to understand the life experiences and thought process of the substantial number of American citizens who see thing differently.