Posted on 07/02/2019 11:44:49 AM PDT by re_tail20
There is now a photograph that sums up everything wrong about America’s broken and overwhelmed immigration system. You’ve seen it, and it is hard to let it leave the mind or the conscience. Together with the accounts of horrifying abuse of children in detention — and “abuse” is not hyperbole — we can see the crisis as it is. We can no longer look away.
The starkness of the crisis is a good thing, though. Until now, many have denied that any crisis existed at all. They have, in fact, denied that the highest levels of mass immigration since the Bush years are an issue at all. As Byron York has noted, Speaker Pelosi called the arrival of close to a million asylum seekers “a fake crisis”; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that hundreds of thousands of men, women, and many children, overwhelming any attempt to process them with the current resources, was “a crisis that does not exist.” This included many Never-Trumpers, like Bill Kristol (“a fake crisis”), and Max Boot (“a faux crisis”). The editors of the Washington Post denied the facts reported by their own Nick Miroff, claiming it was “a make-believe crisis.”
None of these people will admit they were gravely mistaken, or that their denial and delay in acting clearly exacerbated the situation. But now that we’re on the same page, the question is: Where do we go with this now?
Yesterday was a sign of real bipartisan progress. The House passed a Senate bill to spend $4.6 billion to relieve the humanitarian crisis and tackle some of the structural inadequacies of the current failed system. The left wing of the Democratic caucus wanted to insist on various restrictions on the use of the $4.6 billion, primarily to ensure that none of it is...
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It is the “asylum” system that is the problem.
The “asylum” system is not broken, it is inherently defective.
The invaders have learned to ask for “asylum”. It blocks their deportation and might get them welfare to boot.
No border wall will be effective as long as they can request Article 23 welfare benefits and lightning fast Article 34 naturalization from its southern side.
We need to denounce (get out from under) “Convention and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees”
“Article 44 denunciation
1. Any Contracting State may denounce this Convention at any time by a notification addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2. Such denunciation shall take effect for the Contracting State concerned one year from the date upon which it is received by the Secretary-General of the United Nations....”
Agreed. I think Asylum Policy Reform is the biggest, and most fundamental, and most hot-button issue right now. Trump and the Republicans can win re-election, and election, with as big a margin of seats as possible if they make this the big 2020 issue, with Lindsay Graham’s new Asylum Reform bill as a solution.
Liberals maintain their mindlessly, servile attachment to an idea that is NOT workable and is in fact, BAD for the American people.
LOL! A very good article. Thanks for posting.
A very interesting article from a lefty. Nice to know that at least one ‘gets it.’
The article just below it about ‘decelerating acceptance’ of the LGBQT? folks is even more interesting.
Wow, that is a good piece. Everyone should read it. Spells out the problem right there. That under their enforcement, there is no difference between Americans and foreigners at all, no reason for anyone on this planet (and maybe others!) not to show up in Tijuana and cross in.
They want too sneak in and if caught claim asylum. They want it both ways.
And the “cancelling” one below that.
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