Subject: Re: The immigration debate is over'
Unless you have supporting data, I have to call BS. I found this in less than 10 seconds:

https://www.pewresearch.org/sh...

Over 10M illegal immigrants in 2017, which was under Trump. I selected pre-COVID for obvious reasons (i.e. everything shut down during COVID; it was a highly disruptive event). It peaked around 2006 (Bush II).

An additional few seconds netted me this:

https://cis.org/Report/Estimat...

COVID dip, and then a return to approximately the mean. Notably, numbers did not dip significantly under Trump, except during COVID.

Also...economy. Have to call BS again. Things have returned more or less to normal. U6 unemployment is actually lower in August than it was August of 2019 (again, before COVID).

https://ycharts.com/indicators....

Sure, there are problems. Things could be better. They always can be better. But you're trying to convince yourself that things are a disaster, and the data just don't support that conclusion. Inflation is the only figure that I can find that is worse than 2019, but it is near the historical average of around 3%. The Fed targets about 2%. Hardly a disaster.

If Republicans want to address immigration, then let's do it. But they haven't wanted to since Reagan. Obama tried, but by then the Republican focus was not cooperating with Democrats on anything. Until Republicans want to address this seriously, instead of catchy one-liners ("build the wall, make Mexico pay for it"), nothing is going to change.