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No man, it's a constant crisis because fox news constantly proclaims it, as it's a sure fire way of rustling the jimmies of racist boomers, but thanks for your super low effort reply.
Obama deported more people than any other president in history. The illegal immigrant population in the US stopped growing for the first time in decades. Because this was done by a democrat, these facts were invisible to those who preferred to wring their hands and demand something be done about all the "bad hombres" streaming across the border.
But tell me, party of small government and low taxes and responsible spending, what sort of "secure border" are you looking for? What's a practical, reasonable budget for a 2000 mile border? Do you want two thousand miles of concrete barriers and machine gun towers every 50 yards?
Fox news?
Wow.
Who needs fox News to know the Biden Administration is not only NOT enforcing our laws, they're saying states that are trying to enforce our laws are breaking the law.
Stop being so ideologically blinded.
Ok that sentence is not making any damn sense to me. They're not only NOT enforcing our laws, they're saying states that are trying to enforce our laws? What?
"Start making it less desirable to sneak into the US and people will stop sneaking into the U.S."
This seems like 100% sensible thinking.
Unfortunately it may be easier said than done. In El Salvador for example, US intervention during the 60's to stop workers from getting rights, and preventing a minimum wage from being set, came in the form of paramilitary groups that became death squads that would murder anyone critical of the government. Things got more violent and dangerous throughout the 70's, and in the 80's there was a revolution, and the US responded by pouring in more guns and bombs so the repressive government could kill even more people.
El Salvador, once widely considered the murder capital of the world, has been pretty fubar ever since. So imagine someone willing to risk their life and walk 3000 miles for a chance at a better life. They might not be deterred very easily.
So then make it such that there's nothing here for them and make sure they know that their prospects here would be worse than at home.
It's easy? I don't think it's that easy.
Here is a prosecution summary page of the Iran-Contra scandal: https://www.brown.edu/Research/Understanding_the_Iran_Contra_Affair/prosecutions.php
Despite all the clearly illegal activity, only one guy got 16 months prison for lying on his tax returns. Everybody else got probation or pardoned.
So I don't think a well connected poultry CEO would ever actually do time for such a thing. It's a nice thought tho.
I agree there needs to be better pathways to legal immigration. The US population growth is slowing and is projected to decline. Need more Americans.