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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Record crossings @ border
Date: 12/19/23 6:17 PM
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Welp, again: if what we have is an example of "enforcement", then "nonenforcement" must be what the 3rd circle of hell looks like.

I'm not sure what you think an effective "enforcement" strategy is. Again, it's easy to enforce against people who don't present an asylum claim - you can just throw them out. But people who present an asylum claim aren't in the country illegally. They're allowed, under the law, to stay here pending their claim.

So you only have two choices - lock them up for four years (which means you have to house, feed, clothe, and give them medical care in camps while simultaneously taking care of their children and tracking those kids with 100% effectiveness) or allow them to be outside of detention during the pendency of their claim. Congress has not, and will not, allocate the funds to handle that level of detention for four years; nor will they allocate the funds to reduce the processing time of the claims below four years. So what's your strategy?

So your argument boils down to the Biden people just being...incompetent morons. Okay. I can go with that.

No, it's not. They're not incompetent morons. There's no way to competently handle the situation unless Congress acts.

Once more, with feeling - asylees are permitted to remain in the U.S. pending their claim being heard. It takes four and a half years (on average) for a claim to be heard because Congress hasn't allocated more funding for immigration courts. You can't lock up the asylees for four and a half years because Congress hasn't allocated the funding for detention facilities capable of handling that and there's the problem of what to do with the children. You can't physically block them from entering the U.S. and presenting their asylum claim, you don't have the legal authority to use physical violence to turn them away.

Again, you have a system of laws and Congressional budgeting that was set up to solve a different problem. Unless and until Congress acts, the Administration can't fix it. It's not due to their incompetence - it's due to them not being able to change the laws and budgetary allocations.
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