RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
November 7, 2024 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2024 at 11:19 pm by TheWhiteMarten.)
(November 7, 2024 at 10:29 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:(November 7, 2024 at 9:53 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: 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.
Google is your friend:
Quote:When it comes to people in the country without proper documentation, the majority of them didn't cross the Mexican border at all. Most of them came to the United States legally — but then don't leave.Source
Most immigrants here illegally didn't run, jump, or swim here, nor did they ride a cartel caravan. They came here on legitimate visas and simply stayed. Of course, that flies in the face of the shit spewed by the orange orangutan, so it's consistently dismissed as 'fake news' by his adoring fans.
The source you provided is using 2017 numbers; this was during the peak of Trump-era border security regulations, the regulations that Democrats declared as racist and Biden/Harris promised to both repeal and open up.
Of course people were not coming here illegally, by means of foot, when we were funding our border patrol agency and giving them the legal measures to stop, detain, and secure migrants.
Thank you for making my point though; immigration *was* far more fair towards migrants under Trump's policy and was not an open gate that allowed millions of non-qualified and hostile foreign citizens to the country that damage our economy, steal work from hard working immigrants who came here through at least *remotely* savory means.
