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Because "border" isn't the same thing as "impenetrable barrier."
It also means more than a dotted line on a map. Or something metaphorically represented by a sieve.
We're a fairly open country, and we allow hundreds of millions of people to cross our borders for business, tourism, and other purposes every year.
Sure. Guess what all those people have in common. They're here legally.
Now, what do 100% of all illegal immigrants have in common? They're all here in violation of US law.
That they face persecution and threats of violence, torture, and other harms in their home countries based upon their "race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion." So if Jews are being persecuted in some country (to take an historical example), they can seek asylum here - even if their country is not in "upheaval." Similarly, if a dissident is being persecuted because they dare stand up to communism they can claim asylum (to use the classic instance of folks getting asylum after defecting from the Soviet Union).
And they're supposed to be held in detention on arrival until their cases are adjudicated. But Biden is paroling them all into the country, thus enabling the parallel pipeline and therefore a default amnesty program.
BTW. What stops me from paying a coyote to lash me across the back a few times with a power cord a few weeks before I cross?
