Now, supposedly, it's a huge, frightening crisis because we've resumed ... doing what we always did?

Yeah, okay.

I don't know why we wouldn't use ankle monitors for the head of each family though. Seems like a reasonable compromise with the paranoids who think every refugee is out to disappear into the woodwork and never show up for court.

BTW what happened to our agreement with Mexico where they were going to hold people for us til their immigration hearings?

Also, I bet if Trump was to ask for, say $6B from Democrats to improve the facilities along the border ... they could probably be talked into THAT.

lettuce and strawberries in the hot, dusty, chemical-laden fields, working at concrete factories, washing dishes in steamy restaurant kitchens ... ya know, the kinda stuff that millions of US Citizens (especially white people) actually TOTALLY want to go out and do, so ... there is THAT!

If what's being referred to in these posts is "catch and release", call me uninformed if this was done in mass numbers at once into streets, since I think there were specific addresses and destinations involved. The undocumented immigrants distinguishable from these mass releases were hell bent on avoiding being apprehended.

Ergo, no mass numbers were ever built up, like they are now.

However, presumably, the ones they'll choose to release will be the ones who've established they 'have a place to go', that would only be logical. So it's likely pretty much the same reasoning involved as it always was. There's was just no huge backlog involved like there is now.

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I am certainly not a scholar in this or almost any topic, only bounce out what filters down to my level of Generalities, but I'm pretty sure that we Democratic partisans subscribe to the concept of Human Rights for all (no "illegal" human beings).

And as for the people being processed through the ports of entry, who are the ones being dumped into the streets, these are not exactly "undocumented" either, since they are presenting themselves at the ports of entry or to border agents and asking for lawful refugee status and being issued some sort of "document" - very different from those who have done all they could to avoid being apprehended.

My conspiracy theory regards the "huge backlog" that has miraculously developed to coincide with SHITLER's "emergency" dictum.

But I believe the 'gist' of what's happening here is the same as it was for decades ... but it's happening in concentrated numbers because a backlog has purposefully been developed under Trump, due to changing of past rules, and the lack of PLANNING AND FINANCING ... for what the logical outcome of these f***ing dumb new policies would BE.

So now ... huge groups released at once ... didn't HAVE to happen that way, but ... it 'conveniently' does, for maximum propaganda and fear effect, and red meat for Faux ...

SMH

Can they start arresting Border Patrol for manufacturing a crisis?

Or the rabble they rouse are voters and protesters against RepubliCON oligarchs.

I mean we use to let these suffering souls across the border on a regular basis. Without the constant immigration, the US would have no cheap labor to pick your food, clean your restaurants, hotels and offices and slaughter your farm animals. Then all those super rich RepubliCON oligarchs couldn't make as much profits off their scams.

the cheap labor angle of things, but I hope you're correct that our ever apathetic constituent groups *do* get roused to vote.

The current ones being "released" are very different, since many/most? of them are presenting themselves at ports of entry or surrendering to border agents in order to apply for refugee status - in a sense, are being DOCUMENTED at least as far as being issued an application. The other ones largely from before did all they could to avoid being apprehended and were totally UNdocumented - and, yes, were HIRED by Big Business and agriculture/"government subsidized".