One of the fundamental differences between the Trump and Biden administrations is immigration was viewed as a bad thing under Trump, and Biden views immigration as a good thing.
This is the fundamental difference.
Immigration status has been a confusing and complex topic since the Obama administration. People would come into the country, assimilate, and never come to the migration hearing. This was often because their hearing would be where they entered the country, and the person may have moved to Michigan, and sometimes the hearing would be up to a year away.
In Mark’s experience, they were prosecuting 350 souls per week in Tusan whose only crime was coming across the border illegally.
We talk about kids in cages… The real problem is that it is difficult to determine if the child who came into the country belongs to those entering illegally.
Republicans love immigration because of undocumented, cheap labor, and the democrats look at undocumented aliens because they are likely to vote for their party. In Mark’s opinion, we don’t have an immigration problem. We just don’t want to have an honest conversation about the benefits of immigration.
We seem to lack to political will to propose a bill because we are better off doing what we are doing now “complaining about the problem and raising a lot of money.”
We discuss the levels of criminality. We have a system to rank the level of criminality based on the sentence length, and being in the country illegally is the lowest level. So the question is do we view people here illegally as criminals or trespassers, guilty of a crime similar to jaywalking.
Is it true that Trump scared people who wanted to enter the country, and Biden is less scary? We discuss. Is the wall having an impact, or is it mostly political? Are the borders open? What is it like on the ground in the desert between the United States and Mexico?
In Mark’s 20 years of experience has immigration changed? We discuss operation streamline where an individual would get arrested on day one. 48 hours later they meet with an attorney, are in front of a judge, and in about six, seven minutes, they have admitted guilt and been convicted, sentenced, and put on a plane back to their country.
The closest we have come to a meaningful immigration bill was the Amnesty Program in 1986, but there was no will to enforce and it became law with no teeth.
It seems like if we really wanted to do something about immigration we would have one of the parties propose a bill and pass it into law, but we don’t seem to be willing to do that.
