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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (128002)	7/6/2019 1:50:25 PM
From: Katelew	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356350

First, your NPR data is two years old, and things have changed. Because of current law, immigrants are better off showing up at the border with a child. They know the law and know that they can't be detained long enough for border agents to vet them and process them through. Thus they get released into the country with a promise to return on a court date. Unless laws are changed, it's reasonable to assume fewer will try to sneak across the border and get apprehended doing so. What's likely is that increasingly more will simply show up at entry points as a family unit and ask for asylum. Overstaying visas is just another facet of the same problem. Or are you suggesting the govt. should choose? Stop trying to secure the border and just focus on visa overstays? If that were done, what would likely happen is that those who were planning to slip in under over of a visa, would change strategy and not bother with a visa. Just go to the southern border. From your article, coming across with children was getting underway in 2017. This is when Trump began warning of a crisis coming at the border. <<"What we've been seeing over the past few months is a dramatic increase in families and kids," Andrew Meehan, CBP's assistant commissioner for public affairs, told NPR. "You have Border Patrol stations that are largely at capacity and are not equipped to handle the large surge of families and kids that have approached our border.">> What bothers me is that people who post this kind of article are actually trying to obfuscate the issue. They don't want controls on immigration.