Most of us are upset about this situation, whether you are upset about the treatment of these people once they are here, or the fact that we let them come in at all, or the action/inaction of our government, or all of the above.
Everybody in this thread is upset about some aspect of this and you should be. That should bring people together here, not be a wedge.
We are on the same side as far as that goes, aren't we? This needs to be addressed, correct?
But what exactly needs to be addressed?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/politics/border-patrol-mcallen-texas-pictures/index.html
According to this CNN article almost 500,000 people have crossed the border illegally so far this year already (mentioned in video).
Last year was 400,000 for the
entire year.
The number of people crossing now is "staggering" according to CNN. Lack of beds, family separations...sounds like an emergency to me. Not a National Emergency, but an emergency.
This article centers on families seen sleeping outside on grass during the day and how much of a problem the overcrowding is.
What do we do about it? We're processing them and setting them loose in our country on a daily basis and we still can't keep up. We shouldn't be expected to be at the ready with enough beds for all these people because this should not be happening at all.
The problem as I see it is how easy it is for them to get in and stay, both politically and geographically/logistically. That is what needs to be addressed.
We can't let over 1 million people per year (and growing) "sneak" into this country - and that's just the illegals on the southern border. They come in at other locations too, plus how many actual immigrants (legal) do we let in yearly and how are they affected by this?
There is no getting around the fact that we cannot let in everyone who wants to be here. That means we need to turn people away and/or remove whatever incentives are attracting so many people in the first place. Does anyone disagree with this?
Neither Repub nor Dem politicians want this issue solved apparently. As I've said here before, they are exploiting these people for power (votes and money) and they are using our empathy to sell it to us.
We all seem to agree there is a problem here, and to me, the core problem is that there are too many illegals getting into our country. It's pretty simple. Even if you don't like that answer and you want them all here we've already seen we simply can't handle the numbers. There are good reasons to limit these numbers - those reasons are in the news every day.
Y'all are bickering about what Stacyhs said 2 pages ago when really we are all looking to solve the same problem.
Unless you think that over a million people per year (and growing) is okay and that we should forever expand our capacity to house and process these people, we agree that there are too many illegals coming in.
There are a lot of reasons for why this is happening, but that is the core problem I think we all
should be able to agree on, even here.