old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:04 pm
At least the overstays were screened before they entered legally. They're probably staying because they're employed, supporting themselves & are not a burden to society.
They have work visas. They can work.
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old salt wrote: ↑Fri Aug 02, 2024 6:31 pm
Trump didn't call off ICE. You have to prioritize what they do. There's no way they can track down, arrest & detain everyone who is here illegally. They can't be deported immediately. They have to show up for a future deportation hearing in an already overburdened immigration court. Visa overstays are the least of the problem. Your usual all or nothing approach. If you can't fix everything, don't bother fixing anything. It's triage. You're creating false expectations for ICE as a diversion to the increase in incursions at the border which Biden's policy reversals generated.
Says they guy who's creating a diversion because in 12 years, you can't come up with one single solitary criticism of a man you claimed to not have voted for.
We already discussed this:
1. why do people come here, OS? For work, yeah? What happens when you make it impossible to work here? Now the incentive you CLAIM to want to get rid of is gone.
2. now what's easier: chasing down 10 million people? Or holding a few thousand large businesses that even the dumbest among us know are hiring illegal workers.
3. now you do what Trump CLAIMED he'd do: go after managers and businesses that hire illegal workers. Shut them down. Pull all the licenses that we put there for a reason: so they can't operate lawfully. Put managers in jail, hold them without bail. And when you do that a few thousand times? Guess what will happen to illegal hiring, Old Salt? Treat them the way Republicans CLAIM to want to treat criminals: with NO mercy. Remember how mad you were about Kamala posting bail? Now apply that thinking to hiring illegal workers.
Now you've completely removed the incentive to come to America. No walls needed.
Your party REFUSES to do this. Know why? Because they don't HONESTLY think there's a problem, in addition to those illegal workers lining their pockets with the stocks you own.
You STILL think it's just some footnote...some coincidence...that Trump has used illegal workers to line his pockets since he was in diapers, and "gee whiz golly, he can't fix immigration".
You'll never learn. That magic R has you by the neck. You'll NEVER hold them accountable. And you'll go right back to handing the forum excuses about why Trump can't fix anything the millisecond he's in office. It's a bummer.