Yes. Do you honestly think the people who fought tooth and nail to deny this emergency now want to admit they were wrong the entire time???
Ah, yes. The national emergency.... The emergency was declared because Trump realized he wasn't going to get his wall. Not out of a heartfelt concern for the migrants coming over. Remember, these aren't their best people. They're "rapists and murderers" according to candidate and then President Trump. He got nothing done on this front save for a few wall swatches early on for PR and then suddenly when the Democrats took office he shutdown the government over funding for his wall he himself turned down earlier in his presidency. The only reason he stopped the shutdown he caused was because he wasn't going to give his SOTU speech. Once he saw his SOTU speech convinced no one of anything, he suddenly declares it an emergency.
And again, this was done mainly to get funding for his wall. That's cinder blocks, concrete and rebar. Not toothbrushes and soap.
A lot....even more if you're going to be sanitary and not recycle them. Even more if you're going to take the time to shuffle hundreds of people out of their cells to a sink. Even more if you're going to pay people to deliver the brushes and other people to make sure the people use them. If we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people a month....the cost must be in the millions.
If you're arrested by the police....you'll be most likely stuck in a cell with a toilet and a flat space to lie while you are processed.
Then you'll be sent to a prison with toothbrushes. Most likely though, you'll be stuck for anywhere from a few hours to a few days without. Now imagine if suddenly, those same police with the same facilities were overwhelmed with hundreds of more people than they can accommodate and you have the situation we are facing. Everything slows down....there aren't enough resources....and even outside help is strained to the breaking point.
Does that make sense now?
I get what you're saying. It costs a lot of money to keep people in State custody. I get that. Obviously the goal should be to reduce to number of people in our custody and costs and stresses on the system will go down but the fact is, these people are here and they are wards of the state until something is done about them and until then, we have a responsibility to provide the very most basic elements of sanitation.
Of course there is....it's unprecedented. Nobody on the left agreed to address this problem. In all likelihood, they wanted the president to fail.
Nonsense. The left trying to address the problem does not mean give the president billions of dollars for his wall. That doesn't address the problem, it puts a bandaid on it. That does nothing to help the people already in our custody and wont stop the flood of people on their way for years to come while it is being built. The president and Senate have both shutdown Democratic proposals to address the problem mainly because this issue plays well with their base. If you believe the Democrats are playing politics with this issue, why wouldn't you assume the Republicans are as well?
Oh no...please. They turned down staying in Mexico because Mexico actually punishes illegal immigrants. The drug cartels are mainly operating at the northern border....southern Mexico is far less dangerous.
They turn down staying in Mexico because the fact is, Mexico isn't any better for them than Honduras or Guatemala were. Mainly because of the drug cartels that run that country, because of the business they do with their neighbors to the north. The United States.
This isn't an easy issue for any country to address on its own but the one country who stands the most chance at addressing it happens to also be the one that's mainly the cause of this entire mess.
That's ridiculous. How is the one person who consistently tried to address this problem to blame if everyone else fought him? I don't think you believe this.
You don't think I believe the president is responsible for things that happen in the United States? He's to blame, not just because he
wanted to take up the mantle of leader but also because his administration has done everything in its power to politicize the issue because again, politics is being played on both sides. A government shutdown and a few tweets about an emergency at the border while at the same time shutting down talks with congressional leaders trying to address the problem is not indicative of someone who is trying to help the situation.
No, it didn't just start today. Let's take a look at your words when the president declared this an emergency months ago....
Yeah, and I still think he oversold the emergency. That's why they're letting things get out of hand.
If you saw a tiny ember burning and declared it an emergency fire then but also do nothing to put it out and let it grow and grow because you can then lay the blame at others, you're kind of an arsonist. Did you start the fire? No but you also didn't put it out when you had a chance.
Now why should I....or anyone else for that matter...believe you're genuinely concerned about the conditions illegal immigrants face? When you were warned about this....you made jokes. Now you're blaming the person who warned you.
I'm not really interested in what you believe about my concerns for asylum seekers in our custody. I blame the president because this is probably the single issue that got him elected and he has, as far as I can tell, let this problem grow over the last three years while he could have done something to address it instead of building wall swatches in San Diego. What a coincidence that we have an election coming up and he now has opposition in the House and suddenly it's a four alarm fire he needs to put out.