3 graphs that explain Trump’s dilemma on the border
By Tal Kopan and Sam Petulla, CNN
President Donald Trump’s now-reversed “zero-tolerance” policy to prosecute parents who illegally cross the border with their children did not come out of thin air.
The policy, which drew international outcry for its effect of separating thousands of immigrant families, followed months of previous Trump administration efforts to change border policies, including by rolling back a host of protections for immigrant families put in place by courts and Congress.
Though these moves are partly a reflection of this President’s far more aggressive stance toward immigration, they also reflect this simple fact: Migration at the southern border today is entirely different than it was five years ago.
Much of Trump’s rhetoric on the border harks back a decade, to a time when mostly Mexican individuals were crossing the border illegally in huge numbers looking for work.
But today the situation is far different. Illegal immigration from Mexicans has dropped substantially, and increasingly migrants are fleeing violence and instability in Central America.
The pool of migrants is also increasingly made up of families and of children on their own. Many of them seek asylum when they arrive, believing they may qualify for protections designed for immigrants fleeing persecution in their home countries. They may also know that the court backlog means they’ll likely get to live in the US for at least a few years while they pursue their claims.
More: http://www.cnn.com/2018/07/11/politics/trump-border-immigration-charts/index.html
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WOW! You mean White Nationalism, Racism, and Child Abuse aren’t good policies? Who would have thought that?
But remember, truth, facts, common sense, and human decency are all irrelevant in the Trump Regime!
PWS
07-11-18
Is that news? One of the most frustrating things talking with otherwise well informed friends about immigration law is how obsolete their premises are. That’s the unspoken point behind their RAISE Act, besides minimizing darkies family reunification a/k/a “chain migration”.
An old good friend whose name I recently overused in this blog used to flood me with 50 year old studies about the post wars Brazero programs, or the 19th Century USA labor needs where knowing English was essential for manual laborers who can understand simple commands. In short, cheap and ready replacements for the slave labor no longer available after Emancipation.
Those 19th Century USA’s Industrial Revolution jobs like carrying things from one place to another or using a screwdriver no longer exist. Machines do that. No one stole those 1960s jobs paying $20+/hour making TVs in Ohio because no one buys those Big Tube TVs anymore. And nobody makes them.
If you want to work making 21st Century TVs, move to China and get paid $20/day max. Do we really need more monolingual manual workers in our Rust Belt who think they’re better because they only speak English?
Nativists have little use for the new Americans who come here for Freedom, because they see no need for such potentially disobedient citizens pushing the envelope and disturbing their status quo. Like the sand on top in an emptying hour glass, these Nativists don’t notice how irrelevant they are already. To paraphrase Pogo: We’ve met the Enemy and it’s Them.
So please pardon my loud trumpet against Trump and the other Trumputins who hate 21st Century new Americans because they come uninvited. American Freedom is what my parents gave me 56 years ago leaving behind in Cuba family we never saw again, a nice house, etc.