(Yesterday at 9:46 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Neither did 16 million people. They unboarded at the terminal like human beings. What's the point of even having these discussions if we're not going to limit ourselves to reality? Is it like with the haitians thing...the ethnically anxious are just going to keep makin shit up until we get how they feel? The most common way for a person to become an illegal here is to overstay their work visa..the most common way to get in is by plane.
Yes, some did.
Many others - in the millions - crossed over the borders on foot; using a variety of Mexican cartel resources, hostile foreign actors, and dumb luck to try and make their way through desert and mountain.
"Limiting ourselves to reality" should not mean "only acknowledge the bits of it that affirm my belief."
To take just a single month of the surge - December 2023 - over 370,000 individuals were encountered at the border - 12,000 a day.
For 3 years this went on, and while that was a peak month that still leads to millions of individuals who chose to take this route and are now within our borders without even the most basic of background screening; this was, again, just the *encountered* individuals.
We cannot pretend that millions of individuals - many of whom have been explicitly sent here by states of a variety of hostile governments for who knows' what reason - are not a problem just to avoid offending the sensibilities of people who are still here illegally, like it or not.
