Border in Crisis ~ Why Open Borders Policy Doesn’t Work

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1. No Longer Deplorable J Soden says:

   Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 2:01 pm

   TheDonald was exactly right when he said “If you don’t have a border, you don’t have a country.”
   The taxpayers are on the hook for all of the goofernment services (medical treatment, schooling, etc.) supporting the illegals – not to mention the costs for incarceration, court costs, and attorney’s fees.
   Time to build the wall!

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2. Libby says:

   Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 3:59 pm

   “Any thinking person could have predicted what would happen when the Obama administration adopted an open borders approach to immigration.”

   If he had done such a thing, which he has not. What planet do you live on, anyway? This is what’s been going on on this one.

   http://blogs.reuters.com/data-dive/2015/02/25/tracking-obamas-deportation-numbers/

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3. Tina says:

   Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 7:22 pm

   All smoke and mirrors.

   This explains why it’s all smoke and mirrors:

   It’s all in the counting. As reported by ICE, the president has indeed deported illegal immigrants at a higher rate than any other president. A new report, by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington think tank, backs up the ICE’s claim.

   But according to Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan group that seeks lower immigration, ICE counts deportations differently than did past administrations, adding border crossers to its total.. This is why its numbers look bigger by historical comparison.

   The counting switch, she explains, originated in a policy change in which the Border Patrol began handing over to ICE many of the people it had been immediately returning across the border. Now, after processing and penalizing them, ICE removes them from the country, often at a different location along the border.

   The policy aims to separate illegal border crossers from dangerous smugglers who helped them. And by penalizing them, it aims to reduce the likelihood that they will cross again.

   The numerical effect, though, is to include the Border Patrol “referrals” in the ICE count of “removals,” and thus both sets of government data are counted as deportations. In previous administrations, those caught at the border were not counted as deportations, Ms. Vaughan says.

   To account for this difference, she counts the total number of illegal immigrants sent back as reported by all immigration-related agencies, starting with President Eisenhower. What she finds is that the real deporter in chief was President Clinton, who sent an annual average of 1.5 million illegal immigrants out of the US. Obama ranks seventh, sending an average of 800,000 per year packing.

   Also…

   Obama: I’m Still Not Enforcing Immigration Law, No Matter What The Court Says and…

   National Review:

   Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), an ally of House opponents of a new immigration bill, has compiled an exhaustive timeline of the administration’s efforts to “dismantle immigration enforcement” since January 2009, when the Department of Homeland Security announced the first in a series of delays to the deadline by which federal contractors were supposed to have implemented an employment-verification (E-verify) system. Since 2009, the Obama administration has repeatedly invoked executive authority to limit the ability of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to follow the law, and has severely restricted their ability to initiate deportations proceedings, even against illegal immigrants who have been arrested on felony charges. For years the administration has directed government attorneys to dismiss thousands of deportation cases against illegal immigrants. The White House has also pressed employees of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to speed up approval of applications. As early as July 2010, the White House began contemplating “Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration Reform,” or ways that Obama could achieve policy outcomes absent action from Congress. In many instances, it has followed through on these suggested “alternatives,” most notably in June 2012, when the administration unilaterally implemented portions of the DREAM Act, legislation that had repeatedly failed to pass Congress. Since then, the administration has granted legal status to more than 500,000 applicants, while rejecting fewer than 15,000. Obama’s Justice Department has pursued legal action against states and municipalities that set out to do local enforcement of immigration laws, while declining to take action against those states that ignore immigration laws or prevent federal agents from enforcing them. The Obama administration has, by its own admission, neglected to enforce federal laws barring the admission of immigrants likely to become a “public charge,” defined as an individual who is “primarily dependent on the government for subsistence, as demonstrated by either the receipt of public cash assistance for income maintenance, or institutionalization for long-term care at government expense.”

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   • Libby says:

     Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 8:26 pm

     Yes, the alt-right has expended no small quantity of effort to alter this reality … but it is still reality.

     On top of which … all your angst about illegal immigration is only smoke … by no means obliterating your real angst … over immigration of brown people, legal or illegal.

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