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Okay we could maybe use a border bill. My point was, we don’t need a border bill to control the border now. We just need to actually do it. And never release anyone here. Send them back. If they came illegally, there should never be any path to citizenship or any claims of asylum even considered. If you have a legitimate asylum claim, go to a port of entry.
I just really don't care that much about undocumented immigration and it boggles my mind why other Americans do.
They're less violent than US born citizens.
They pay their taxes (insofar as they're able).
They can't vote.
Their kids who are born here are guaranteed birthright citizenship and that isn't ever going away. (Corollary: Deporting American citizens seems crazy assuming you want to get rid of the kids, and taking kids away from parents is also crazy if you just want to get rid of the adults.)
Unless you're so far gone that you believe they're "poisoning the blood of the country" which seems to be the mainstream Republican position, I don't know why so much energy is devoted to them.
So when you say: "we don’t need a border bill to control the border now. We just need to actually do it. And never release anyone here. Send them back. If they came illegally, there should never be any path to citizenship or any claims of asylum even considered."
My response would be: we're already doing it. Biden has deported more migrants than Trump and Trump released more migrants into the US than Biden has. The border patrol is actually underfunded for what you want and even if Biden wanted to catch more of them there are legitimate funding issues with that... that the border bill would have helped address. With the existing resources available (enforcement and judicial), Biden did direct resources to prioritize criminal offenders over others which I think is fine but upset a lot of other people.
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