but it's hard to get the funding necessary to do it correctly,
No, it is not. Trump had it working very well. You just forgot that. He got Mexico to cooperate and keep the walkers in Mexico until their asylum claims could be validated. He got a large part of the wall built. Biden sold at a huge loss, the material that had not yet been used to complete the wall but strangely enough only after Texas tried to buy it so Texas could install the rest of the wall.
I hope you realize that the majority of asylum claims are denied. One of the reasons is because asylum is an immediate need. You need to get to a safe country and that applies all over the world. Therefore, unless Mexico and Canada devolve into war zones, there is no country that borders ours that has an immediate need to take in asylum seekers. If you get on a plane in Iran and fly to Mexico and walk across our border, you are not seeking "asylum", you are just trying to get to the place that will give you the most "stuff". You would be safe in Mexico and probably every other country you traveled through on your way here. You probably are not coming here because you want to be an American. Iranians HATE America. They chant "death to America" in the streets every time there is a news camera handy. So, the most likely reason that the Iranian is seeking entry into the US is because he means us harm, not because he is seeking the American dream.
We do, take refugees under other circumstances. But those people crossing the Rio Grande do NOT qualify as refugees.
and it seems to me that the congress does most of the blocking and tackeling on that.
The Republicans are every bit as responsible for this idiocy as are the Democrats. They are all feckless pieces of dog poo and they are doing the bidding of their donors, not what the average American wants them do do. If you look at numbers, WE, were the MOST welcoming country in the entire world. WE take in more legal immigrants than all the rest of the countries of the world combined. We also take in millions of temporary workers every year to harvest our crops and to staff our seasonal businesses as well as to fill high tech vacancies. Of course high tech vacancies is another idiotic law. The law specifies that imported workers are not intended to replace American workers and must be paid a salary equivalent to what an American worker would receive. This is the h1b visa law. So, to circumvent the intent of the law, the companies use one major tactic.
The visa holders are not employed directly by American companies. The companies, say Disney and the Hartford Insurance Group (to give two actual examples) lay off their entire IT staff. They hire a consulting firm to outsource their IT department. They pay them much less than they had to pay their American staff. Then they bring in replacement workers, by the busload in the case of the HIG. The HIG workers were informed that morning that to qualify for their separation pay, they needed to train their replacement. The workers are paid by the consulting company and so they can be paid significantly less than the people they replace and the law doesn't cover this because it isn't a person replacing a person. It is a company replacing a function.
This is also done on a smaller scale and it turns out that I was part of the scam back in the 70's. I was working for a very large NYC based nation-wide consulting firm. I was managing a project in Nashville. One of our workers was a Pakistani on an h1b visa. Ozzie went home to meet a bride his family had found for him but when he came back, there was a problem with his visa so he couldn't get in. He flew into Canada and drove across the border where he wasn't even stopped. Now, I had to make sure his visa got renewed and so I put job ads in the local newspapers with a skills list so specific that only Ozzie could qualify and for a rate that was commensurate with what we were paying Ozzie but which was a fraction of what we would have paid an American so we didn't have to worry about any Americans applying.
The other scam with this particular visa program is that it is supposed to be for the cream of the crop. It isn't supposed to be used to replace low level workers. Therefore, every foreign worker we bring in has some kind of super degree because they can say whatever they want to say. Nobody checks. The hiring managers are looking for cheap and they know what they are getting.
in that speach she said that the United State was the only country in the world founded on an idea. The idea that all people are created equal.
She is absolutely correct. Except that we didn't all sign a suicide pact. Allowing NINE MILLION unvetted mostly military age men into this country in three years reeks of a death wish.
Go look for yourself. Do the research. See just how many immigrants we allow in LEGALLY. Compare it to other countries of the world. Do you think China is accepting immigrants? Do you think anyone in their right mind wants to go there? Part of being moral is taking care of your own. What instructions do you get every single time you board an airplane? If the air masks deploy, put on your own before you try to help anyone else. We have to take care of our own and out of control illegal immigration is not what the idea was founded on.
I don't hate anybody, vitriol does not eminate from me.
That is what you say. However, you are always ready to believe evil of others, particularly Trump. If you didn't already hate him, you would be much more willing to think that perhaps his words have some other rational meaning than the evil one that comes immediately to your mind. You should reflect on that last statement. Why do you jump to the "evil" conclusion rather than the "benign" conclusion? You are never willing to assume that he actually has the country's welfare at heart.
but what we don't need are racist comments about people trying to go someplace in order to have a better life. Trumps poison comment was absurd, I was just tryiong to point that out in a satrical, and comedy friendly way.
It is YOU who are transferring YOUR feelings to Trump. Otherwise, why would you always assume the most evil, negative motivation possible every time he opens his mouth? Several of us have tried to explain to you metaphor and allegory but you're still stuck on the Trump is evil bandwagon.
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