Catholic (Christian) response to immigration.

[LizaMarie]

Laws govern immigration policy, that means laws passed by Congress. Thus, contrary to the representation in the article, the administration has set forth an immigration policy--following the law. It is important to remember that the current disastrous situation was created by the Biden administration which saw over 10 million people in four years flood our country. The number in slavery in our country, victims of human trafficking, increased to numbers not seen since the Civil War. The Biden administration didn't bother to track hundreds of thousands of children, and I fear many will never be rescued. National Security is at stake, just like money pouring into our universities from the Chinese and radical Islamists, those same entities and other outside entities supported bringing people over our border. Chinese of military age and many Islamic terrorists, not to mention other cartel members, gang members, and terrorists, are now in our country. It a mess that may take many years to solve.

I completely agree that the Biden administration was awful in that regard most likely as a reaction to Trump's immigration policies of his first term which were actually pretty good(excepting the child separation policy which was rescinded. Biden should have definitely kept the remain in Mexico policy, and I have no problem with a secure border, which was porous during the Biden adminstration. It is my opinion that this is one reason that Trump won, people wanted the border secured.

 

[tz620q]

I completely agree that the Biden administration was awful in that regard most likely as a reaction to Trump's immigration policies of his first term which were actually pretty good(excepting the child separation policy which was rescinded. Biden should have definitely kept the remain in Mexico policy, and I have no problem with a secure border, which was porous during the Biden adminstration. It is my opinion that this is one reason that Trump won, people wanted the border secured.

For the last 10 years, I have been travelling to South Texas to work periodically. The hotel I stayed in was also used by Border Patrol agents during the Trump years and then Texas and Florida State agents during Biden's years. It was evident to me that Trump prioritized a Federal response to border security. Biden's administration lied to us for years about a secure border while ignoring a wide open border.

I commend your compassion for people trying to escape a bad situation in their home countries; but it is misplaced. True compassion would be to stop these people from consorting with the worst criminals in the Western Hemisphere that offer them hope for a lot of money. The people working the border said that the worst part of the job was fishing drowned children out of the Rio Grande. They related that one of the cartel tactics to make more money was to grab a small child and dangle it over the river to extort a few more thousand dollars from a family. If they didn't pay, the child was thrown into the river.

The truly tragic part of this terrible policy is that 90% of the people who have asked for asylum under Biden will have it denied by the immigration judge and be shipped right back to their home country. This statistic has not changed under Biden or Trump, so the Biden administration knew that it was purely a matter of time. The only logical thought on why they allowed this to happen is that they realized by flooding the immigration courts with cases, the immigrants could stay in this country long enough to gain a green card and work and hopefully evade ICE and the immigration courts. Then sometime in the future when Dems have a majority again in the Congress, try to pass a mass amnesty bill to give them automatic citizenship without going through the legal process.

I have one more thought about this topic that my exposure to the border caused me to think about. The current U.S. policy does not allow granting asylum in the person's home country if they go to the American embassy. Likewise, a legal immigration petition cannot be filed at the embassy. It would take a larger state department presence in these countries to implement home country filing for either asylum or legal immigration; but it could keep the immigrants out of the hands of the cartels and in their home countries until their claim is granted. President Trump has obviated the need for this by totally discouraging people from starting this terrible journey. If people don't have a credible hope of being allowed into our country to seek asylum, they won't start. I am just not sure if this discourage immigration tactic will hold. The cartels were making around 15 billion dollars a year on human trafficking. They will find ways to pump up the flow again.