If we have to release these people from custody, and we do, don’t you feel they should be released where they have the best support mechanism to help them until their court date?
It’s also hyperbolic and tends to trigger anxiety and anger in targeted sets of people in this country. It’s tantamount to saying that our country is under attack, and this can invite a whole host of incivility and danger to people who are legally seeking asylum in our country.
We are a country comprised of many cultures and influences, we can accept folks who come here seeking the American dream just like we have since the country’s inception.
It’s simply wrong headed to start a war on drugs, creating the market that decimates Latin America and throws whole populations into danger and then demonize people seeking to escape the nightmare we created.
Invasion can be used, but so can “increased influx”. Both say the same thing, but the reaction to both is quite different.
That was the proposal of the Whitehouse. Why not do it? Send them to a place that wants them rather than a place that does not. I would get on the phone, call San Francisco and ask them if they are willing to receive the 100,000 border crashers that were apprehended last month. Let San Francisco decide.
Obama already did the lots and lots of EO thing. Remember he had a phone and a pen. If he couldn’t get what he wanted he just used his pen and phone and went around congress. I remember people warning you when you all were cheering him on that you would not like the pay back.
I’m totally confused though. They have claimed that they want illegal immigrants in unlimited numbers but when the president grants them their wish, they freak out. Strange birds these libs.