With what???? You understand what a budget is, right? Well they're budgeted for 600% less traffic than they have.
It's not hard to understand...imagine every school in your state suddenly had a 500% increase in enrollment. Imagine your hospital had 500% more emergency patients than it had capacity for....every month.
What you're asking for doesn't exist. It's used up. This situation was created by people not wanting to address the problem.
Trump wanted money for a border wall, where instead money could have been allocated earlier for handling the folks coming for asylum, fleeing violence. It is not a new problem as there have been influxes before, like in 2014. The Senate has a bill for more funding but it is not focused on the migrants. The House has passed a bill for the money the head of Border Control wants, with the restriction being that it is for providing basic needs for the migrants, and not a border wall and such.
They have....they did....it's used up.
Migrants From El Paso Shelter Likely Headed to Dallas
Now they're trying to arrange space in the interior and ship them there.
That is a start. Now increased funding needs to come from the congress. The Senate needs to pass the House bill that passed.
If you can show me where they say toothbrushes and showers, I'll agree.
Let's be clear though...these facilities were built to hold adults for 72 hours or less. Imagine what your local police station has...and you get the idea. We can't magic up showers, toilets, nannies, or extra on site medical care where it doesn't exist. If you want these things built....email your congressman and demand they increase your taxes and build them. You might see this addressed 6 months to a year from now.
The government had been providing them for longer staying immigrants (in detention) because
it was understood as being part of the 'safe and sanitary environment' mandated by federal law, as already stated.
What are they supposed to do if every dime is accounted for??? You saw the article....they're asking for an extra 1.1 billion in emergency funds. You do realize they were allocated billions extra already this year, right?
But it was allocated for building a wall mostly, and other security issues.
You cannot be this naive. You have articles talking about 5 and 6 year old unaccompanied children. They didn't decide to seek asylum and come to the US....they were brought by adults who aren't their family so those adults can get a free ticket inside.
First, stop trying to make this about me. This is not the first time in this thread. Stop trying to make it personal Ana the 1st.
We don't know they were brought by folks other than their parents. Where is the proof. Lots of folks in those countries do not have papers because much is not on computers. They are archaic. In several articles I saw, the parent was a teen girl there with the child, and both needed basic health and a safe and sanitary environment while awaiting to be seen by an immigration judge.
Ok....I'll try this a different way....
I get it. You don't want to turn away hungry poor uneducated people....especially children. You know what? I don't either. I'd like it if every problem in life had a morally acceptable solution....that's not reality though.
The truth is, according to the same guy from DHS, 90% of families seeking asylum....don't show up for their hearing. Of those who do...the one's from the nations crossing our borders now are rejected at abnormally high levels. I'm talking about something like 80% (though I don't remember exactly, but I can probably find the numbers if you need me to). That's not a large group of people seeking asylum....it's a large group of people engaging in fraud.
That is not correct.
Majority of undocumented immigrants show up for court
According to Justice Department
data from the last five available years, around 60 to 75 percent of non-detained migrants have attended their immigration court proceedings. That’s determined by subtracting the percentage of judgments entered against migrants in their absence (known as an in absentia ruling) from total judgments entered.
But what about asylum seekers? The same article shows they show up at much higher numbers.
Before the Trump administration
ended the program in June, participants had a 100 percent attendance record at court hearings. They also had a 99 percent rate of check-ins and appointments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General
report.
"According to ICE, overall program compliance for all five regions is an average of 99 percent for ICE check-ins and appointments, as well as 100 percent attendance at court hearings," the report said. "Since the inception of FCMP, 23 out of 954 participants (2 percent) were reported as absconders."
In 2015, the immigration advocacy group American Immigration Council published a
report that looked at studies from over the previous two decades that examined how well asylum seekers fulfilled their legal obligations. It found studies showed "very high rates of compliance with proceedings by asylum seekers who were placed into alternatives to detention."
What's worse is that every climate scientist believes this is the tip of the iceberg. It's just beginning. In the next several decades....a third of the planet will be uninhabitable. It's going to be the poorest, hottest, and worst places imaginable. They expect 1 billion + people to be fleeing famine, drought, poverty and war/violence. Where will they flee to?? The US and Europe primarily. We're the wealthiest and best situated to handle climate change.
Take a look around you though....our infrastructure is crumbling, our public institutions are underfunded, our government is cripplingly slow and reactionary instead of pro-active. If we were the most egalitarian society that ever existed....we still wouldn't be able to handle an increase in population like that. As it stands, we have serious problems dealing with the population we have now.
Everything I just stated is true....so now all you need to do is decide if you want your children and grandchildren to be as doomed as 1/3rd of the planet is. If you are ok with that....then by all means, keep slapping band-aids on this problem until you run out of band-aids and you and yours are forced to leave seeking a better place.
If however, you decide you don't want to doom your children and your nation....the answer is simple. Just send an email to every democratic representative in your state and tell them to fix our broken asylum and immigration laws. Tell them you won't vote for them and you'll urge everyone you know to do the same unless they fix these laws. Tell them it's an unacceptable situation that cannot be resolved by throwing money at it.
If enough people did that, the laws would change in a matter of weeks....and the incentive to drag a child through this awful situation would disappear with the old laws.
That's the only way you're going to see this end in your lifetime. Our pockets aren't bottomless....our charity isn't infinite....and neither is the time we have to resolve this.
Where do you think all the folks on each coast and the southeast area of the US are going to flee to? The US is going to be hit harder than Central American and northern part of South America.
BUT CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT THE TOPIC HERE. (caps for emphasis, not yelling)
What I see in the rest of your post is hyperbole, hysteria and a rant.