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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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Date: 01/10/24 11:24 AM
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Come on man, I'd rather get my info from Alex Jones than from govt websites under Mayorkas. This is on team Biden, end of story.

That report was published by the Trump administration. It's from 2019.

If you prefer, here's the archived version of the report from when it was first published in November 2019:

web.archive.org - Sw border migration

It hasn't changed. I know it conflicts with the conservative framing of the issue, that a GOP President is all that's needed to deter migrants from trying to get into the U.S. But Trump presided over one of the largest single-year increases in border encounters in history. Not because he did anything wrong, either. It's just that the U.S. President has very little control over the decision-making of people living in horrible conditions that might choose to come to the U.S.

So no, this is not on Team Biden. Massive numbers of migrants are fleeing those terrible conditions in various Latin American countries, and they're overloading the system. Biden didn't create the factors leading them to flee, doesn't have the legal ability to modify the system for dealing with asylum seekers (who are allowed to remain in the U.S. pending their claims), doesn't have the power to increase the budget allocations to either increase the number of immigration courts/judges or to set up detention facilities to feed and house hundreds of thousands of people, and can't authorize the use of force on the Mexico side to physically repel them from getting into U.S. territory.

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