The President wouldn’t be forced to use Executive Orders to control the border if Congress would do its job and pass a Border Security bill. The last one was passed 11 years ago.
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 passed when Democrats had control of the Senate and House, along with a Democratic President.
Make note if your congressional elections date and vote.
“Forced” my fucking ass, nobody and nothing is forcing his bigoted ass to harass and brutalize migrants and asylum seekers
And that border security bill is Republican policy trash
They are forcing detainment or deportation due to lack of resources for migrants. Governors of states with sanctuary and border cities are petitioning the Federal Government for assistance to offset the cost of migrant housing. The overcrowding in some areas is very costly and difficult to manage. Border towns are also underfunded federally, requiring the state to pay for transportation to sanctuary cities.
https://www.nyc.gov/content/getstuffdone/pages/asylum-seeker-update
With proper Federal legislation, there would be established funding for transportation and housing costs, taking the burden off of border states, as well as cities that offer migrant housing. We would have a way to support migrants seeking asylum nationally, rather than just the states that volunteer assistance.
Sure, the federal government should be providing more anti-poverty resources generally to city county and state level governments, we’ve chronically underfunded those services for a long time and have a lot of deficits to make up there. What we don’t need is that dogshit legislation and these executive orders that essentially just give money to border patrol to harass and brutalize desperate people and try to make our immigration courts into even more of a rubber stamp for xenophobic bullshit than they already are.
Also, Eric Adams is a lying rat bastard who’s had it in for the homeless and poor people for decades, so anything coming from nyc.gov about the teeming masses yearning to breathe free shouldn’t be taken at face value.
I was near the Roosevelt Hotel last week. The whole block looks like a concert just ended. I’m very pro-immigrant and migrant. This isn’t on them, it’s on the government to provide assistance. The government is providing zero Federal support, because border security hasn’t passed since before our immigration shifted to mostly migrants, so the bill is completely on the sanctuary cities. You just don’t understand how the government works, or in this case, doesn’t.
Ya gotta laugh to keep from crying.
