Comment by Izikiel43
14 hours ago
> Biden has deported vastly greater numbers and a higher share of crossers, but it has not deterred people from crossing.
ICE and Trump seem to be enough deterrent now, considering how the land encounters have reduced.
> The logistics are such that once arrivals exceed the deportation machine’s capacity, people will find out and even more will come.
This explains the huge ice funding increase.
Yes, breaking asylum and due process laws will be a deterrent. The question was always how to deter immigration legally, which prior POTUSes thought they had to care about.
Re the funding increase:
People to put handcuffs on wasn’t the bottleneck, so no it doesn’t. Immigration courts are the bottleneck, and actually jamming more low-level or non-offenders into the system exacerbates that problem.
lol breaking asylum laws is bad but breaking immigration laws is fine.
“lol” no one said it’s fine to break immigration laws.
I’d suggest though that our government breaking laws is in fact worse than random individuals breaking laws.
That’s true for pretty obvious reasons, I’ll add.
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> Yes, breaking asylum and due process laws will be a deterrent.
Unfortunately, TPS is up to the executive branch, not congress, so changing the duration is up to the executive branch discretion.
Which is not related to the closure of borders to asylum seekers nor the withholding of due process rights for people who are suspected of breaking immigration laws — neither of which is at the Executive’s discretion.
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