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And people still downvote this most reasonable position.
The problem with the conservative position is that it is idiotic. During the Obama years our efforts to reduce illegal immigration were hugely successful. We attacked the problem in the countries where people were coming from, dramatically reducing the number of people that felt they needed to leave their homes. The Trump years and the inept policies of the fools in that administration cut off the funding for those programs very early, completely derailing years of work because they were too ignorant to understand it was the best way to reduce people hitting our border. Sadly those programs haven't been renewed yet. I'm 1000% for a strong border, but also 1000% against the "wall" nonsense and all the other garbage that politicians push which won't work. Just the other day the GOP held hearings in the House where Democrats were trying to push an amendment to a bill to prevent firearms from getting in the hands of the cartels south of the border - and it got ZERO GOP support - literally zero. That's because the gun lobby wants the cartel money, so... GOP won't do anything.
Well, start with not conflating conservative with Republicans.
Some/many republican politicians have as much guilt as any other politician.
I Don't know how you got that out of what I posted. I was bashing Congress because they were refusing to do anything to reduce the flow of firearms across the southern border. Yes, I absolutely think they need to do their job. I want them to reinstate funding for the programs that were actually working spectacularly to reduce people hitting our borders, but the GOP won't do that.
They have a razer thin majority, and only in the senate. Republicans control the house.