Jersey Girl wrote:As for solutions, you are right.
The Democrats don't have any.
The GOP hasn't got any.
And neither does anyone else here
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:I think I asked earlier what people here would to fix it or solved this conundrum, but I must've missed their solution.
I gave my solution. It's based on seeing the problem going back to the late Bush Presidency as one of resource allocation not meeting the demand. Much of the flack Obama faced for his EOs' focus on who to deport was misapplied. Obama was deporting everyone that they could with the funding available. So he made an executive decision to focus on the ones who were the biggest risk to American society and not go after kids and people otherwise lower on the risk chart. Yes, there were people who committed violent crimes who were not deported but if perfection is one's goal, one is going to be disappointed no matter what. Obama was really unpopular with liberals who were paying attention to the immigration issue, actually, and had to really make changes in advance of the 2012 election to try win them back to beat Romney. Good thing Romney believed in self-deportation instead of a legitimate immigration policy...
So, we have this $25 billion over 5 year wall proposal. There are a lot of immigration judges that could be paid with $5 billion a year to expedite cases and get those complying with refugee and asylum seeking laws into the right place while deporting those who were trying to take advantage of the system. It could help fund legitimate immigration needs to staff low-wage jobs that rely on low skilled immigrant labor. It could go a long ways to helping the problem of illegal immigration by making legal immigration a viable option. It currently isn't, and the way we spend our money says exactly what is being said above. No one legitimately cares. It's just politics. But it's ignorant politics to say the solution is just legal immigration so immigrants get in line.
TL;DR - The problem is a resource one. The solution requires resources.