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Opinion: Why Biden's new border plan is a terrible idea
(www.latimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Because ‘fixing’ immigration isn’t a thing we can honestly do, outside of these hard line closed border moves.
Reagan borked it up with the war on drugs. Empowering gangs/militias/contras, causing pervasive and persistent violence that drives displacement of the locals in South America. Before then, the US experienced seasonal migration via a “porous border” - as it wasn’t really a challenge to cross, and enforcement was lax stateside of green cards/paperwork, there was significant seasonal migration that would cycle into the US, work hard and live cheap for a few months, and return to their families.
Hardening the border and documentation requirements killed that “loopback”. Initially migrants shifted to immigration and would stay in the US as primary domicile, taking long trips back to their family. But with the growing violence in the south, it makes more sense to bring your family to the US.
We absolutely need overhaul, but there’s so many fingers, voting groups, and special interests in this pie…
Congress could replace the Reagan era immigration legislation that we use today with new legislation that would address the nation’s needs and the needs of immigrants.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/1200