Dope1: Ace of Spades summed up Mitt's rather poor logic earlier today...We keep telling them we want:

* a border wall
* more security
* more deportations
* a sharply narrowed definition of who is permitted to claim "asylum" status, which is how most illegals scheme their way into the country


Dopes1's sources now consist of Ace of Spades and End Wokeness on Twitter (X).

Dementia Don promised you a big beautiful border wall fully paid for by Mexico. Plus, he had majorities in the House and the Senate his first two years as president. If you don't have that big beautiful border wall you have no one to blame but the republicans in Congress and Dementia Don.

If you guys want "more security," then meet Biden's request for funds to hire 1,000 more U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, as well as 1,300 more Border Patrol agents on the Southwest border, new technology, including non-intrusive inspection equipment to detect drugs, like fentanyl and other illegal substances, an additional 300 Border Patrol processing coordinators to work alongside Border Patrol agents, and 1,600 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum officers to help hear asylum claims and expedite removals from the United States.

As albaby1 has repeatedly established, the current border system was designed for yesterday's border issues, not today's border crisis.

More deportations?

The Biden administration is removing 3.5 times as many people per month as the Trump administration did.

During the Trump administration, DHS made 1.4 million arrests—what it calls “encounters”—in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 (24 months). Of those people arrested, only 47 percent were removed as of December 31, 2021, which includes people arrested by Trump and removed by Biden, and 52 percent were released into the United States.

Under Biden, DHS made over 5 million arrests in its first 26.3 months, and it removed nearly 2.6 million—51 percent—while releasing only 49 percent. In other words, the Trump DHS removed a minority of those arrested while the Biden DHS removed a majority.

As for a narrower definition of "asylum" status, that's up to Congress and the courts, not the president. Right now under U.S. law, people who flee their countries because they fear persecution can apply for asylum.

So you'll need to take that up with Mike Johnson who's said he's taking his marching orders from Dementia Don, the guy who didn't want to address the Covid-19 pandemic because he'd rather watch hundreds of thousands of Americans die than take actions that might hurt his bid for reelection.

In a repeat performance, Dementia Don and his republican cult would rather not solve the border crisis if it might harm him at the voting booth.

cato.org - New data show migrants were more likely be released trump biden