Discussion: Illegal Immigration, Immigration Reform, and Other Citizenship Issues II

Shouldn’t this entire thread be placed in the racism thread? I think Americans have a problem with brown people than immigration as a whole. No one wants a wall if Irish people want to come here.

 

Immigration issues warrant their own thread and aren’t interchangeable with say racism against African-Americans.

 

Imagine if they went after jaywalking this intense.

Are undocumented immigrants committing a crime? Not necessarily - CNN Politics (2017)

 

You have a wall with the ocean between US and Ireland actually.

 

I mean, not too long ago, many would have been for it....

 

Yea, in the not too distant past, Irish (and Italians) were about as unwanted as some immigrant groups are today.

 

I'm glad this won, but disgusted that it even had to be a thing to take to court.

 

Not that ICE has ever really cared about rulings like this...

 

The Washington Post - Immigration arrests have fallen sharply under Biden, ICE data show

“The number of immigrants taken into custody by ICE officers fell more than 60 percent in February compared with the last three months of the Trump administration, according to data reviewed by The Washington Post. Deportations fell by nearly the same amount, ICE statistics show.”

 

Unaccompanied children at the Southwest US border: What we know - CNNPolitics



These GQPs are just a bunch of racists who demonize Latinos and want to blame the other party for the existence of Latinos; its what their racist voter base wants to hear. People need to be treated humanely. House GQP leader McCarthy calls them terrorists like his white supremacist messiah Donald Trump does.

 

ICE deportations fell in April to lowest monthly level on record, enforcement data shows

Deportations down to record low.

Number of unaccompanied migrant children held by Border Patrol falls 88% in 5 weeks

 

Immigration experts say GOP senators questioned DHS secretary with misleading chart

 

Sounds like a problem solving itself.

 

It's good they were found but they should never have been seperated in the first place.

 

Children speak of sickness and neglect in US asylum camps

 

NY Times - Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications
Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom.

 

It's a necessary step. Population growth cannot continue infinitely but the decrease can be gradual and accounted for, if only the people in charge would make childcare and poverty less of an issue. They won't because that will impact the rich.