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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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Author: albaby1 SILVER
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Subject: Re: Record crossings @ border
Date: 12/20/23 7:38 AM
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Make illegal immigration illegal again. I assume most people are aware that we have laws against that sort of thing, but maybe not.

On top of that, reform the amnesty process.


I didn't mean generalities, and I didn't mean wishing for something that's beyond your control.

Seriously, imagine you're in charge of Homeland Security. Consider a situation where a family, with a minor child, wades the Rio Grande and turns themselves in to the Border Patrol - willingly - in order to submit an amnesty claim. What specifically would you do differently than the Administration is doing?

You don't have the power to "reform" the amnesty process - only Congress can do that. The family is entitled to a hearing, and they can lawfully remain in the United States until they get it. You don't have the funds to set up massive detention facilities for hundreds of thousands of people, where you'd have to feed and clothe and shelter and provide medical attention to them. You can't keep the minor child in detention for more than a month, you don't have anywhere to place the child, nor do you have the resources to conclusively keep track of a separated minor child. You don't have the funds to speed up the immigration hearing process, nor do you have the funds - or the legal ability - to set up barriers along much of the border. You don't have the legal authority to use force to repel migrants from entering the U.S. And you don't have the Title 42 medical powers from Covid any more.

So in all seriousness....what's your plan? Illegal immigration is illegal today - the problems we face are the mechanics of enforcement given that everyone involved is entitled to a court hearing before you can deport them. So what's your solution? What's the policy that you think the Biden Administration should be implementing that they're not doing.
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