RunsWithWolves26 said:
statefan91 said:
RunsWithWolves26 said:
statefan91 said:
JeffreyDurkin said:
Okay - they have not specifically called for open borders. But, Democrats have created sanctuary cities. They have been openly hostile towards ICE and have called for the elimination of the department. They have given out information to illegal immigrants on how to avoid being deported. They have refused to help with a solution and instead attack the administration as being racist for wanting strong immigration control.
I agree with you that the problem has been building based off of decades of inaction on both sides. But at least Trump is trying to solve the problem and is having to fight the Democrats to get any resolution. Also, the problem has significantly increased in the past 2 years as Democrats have fought him and made promises on sanctuary and free government assistance for illegals. You seriously cannot act like there is not a correlation.
2016 - 2018 the Republican party had the Presidency and majorities in the Senate and House. Weird that immigration wasn't dealt with easily during that time period. That seems to align with your timeline of when this became a much bigger problem, feels like they had ample time to pass legislation to deal with in whatever strategic way they saw fit.
Edit: I hope the above doesn't come across snarky, I truly don't mean it to. However, Republicans had full control for the past two years and I don't think they came close to passing any immigration reform legislation but please correct me if I'm wrong.
And Dems had control during Obama? Fact remains, neither party has done a damn thing. I get you are not a fan of any Republican and I am not a fan of either party, but at least call a spade a spade when it comes to this topic.
Ok
At least be original. I mean, you tried to blame it all on one party when it's obviously both. Just call it both ways
JD was rebutting something I posted so I asked a serious question about if this has always been a crisis, why didn't the Republicans fix it during the past two years when they had complete control of all chambers? I don't think that's an outlandish question.
It is also not outlandish to claim that the
CURRENT iteration of the crisis is able to be blamed on the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policies. They implemented the policy without assessing the impact of it on the facilities, judges, lawyers, social workers, border agents, and additional government infrastructure. The zero-tolerance policy has caused a surge of people to be held at the border without having the infrastructure in place to house them / send them back / process their asylum cases / feed them / etc.
My job is not to make sure I cover your stance that all politicians suck and are terrible and are only doing it for theatrics. I don't think think that's the case, and I've previously stated multiple times that even if you disagree with the methods of people like AOC, if you watch congressional hearings she's a part of, she is clearly working for the betterment of citizens by taking on pharmaceutical companies and government waste.