“Well, it needs to change by getting back to local and states rights.”
That’s not as good as it sounds; there are a few legitimate roles for a federal government, and the border and defense are included in them. Without a national standard, you could have a situation where California admits immigrants that Texas never normally would, and that person then moves to Texas as a CALIFORNIAN rather than a Mexican/Saudi/whatever. This is exactly what happened in Canada with the Millenium bomber; he was admitted to Quebec as a French speaker, from which point he easily traveled to western Canada - where they would have never admitted him otherwise.
I understand that but the Feds are the ones actively failing us.
That is the entire point! Not only are they failing us, they are THWARTING US.
We have a federal policy; we just don’t have anybody willing to enforce it. And the feds are making sure nobody CAN enforce it. They are undermining the rule of law. Not only are they refusing to protect the states from foreign invasion as required by the US Constitution, they are keeping the states from being able to do so as dictated by the 10th Amendment.
They are lawless thugs.
We need to fire the whole lot of them and replace them with the people Arpaio had - the ones who showed they were willing to actually do what they were employed to do.
I guarantee you, if the feds just got the **** out of the matter and we funded the states to handle the border issue, it would be a done deal.
Better yet, if the Feds allowed local residents on the border to patrol the border and enforce it, we would have no border problem.
I am not talking vigilantes, I am just talking local autonomy.