Getting control of the border
The single most significant thing Republicans could do to reduce undocumented immigration is to require E-Verify for all hires and jail employers who don’t use it or who hire in spite of it. Why not use this?
“At the same time, ordinary economic migrants could be most effectively dealt with via E-Verify. If you make it hard to hire undocumented workers, they’ll stop coming. The problem is that even immigration hawks tend to downplay this because it might actually work, and that would piss off the business community that wants lots of cheap foreign labor.”
Follow the money, peeps.
How do we get control of the border?
“At the same time, ordinary economic migrants could be most effectively dealt with via E-Verify. If you make it hard to hire undocumented workers, they’ll stop coming. The problem is that even immigration hawks tend to downplay this because it might actually work, and that would piss off the business community that wants lots of cheap foreign labor.”
Follow the money, peeps.
How do we get control of the border?
You skillfully caveated the post with “economic migrants” so this is a little off-topic, and you’ve all heard it before, but a real good place to start (How do we get control of the border) would be in the recognition that our warming atmosphere, the thin layer of no longer potentially toxic gases we live in enveloping the only world we know of we can live on
DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE BOUNDARIES OF NATION/STATES
Not gonna’ stop the migrations. Those places have become uninhabitable and the people who can no longer live there are leaving. It can’t be stopped, it won’t be stopped. Far better to find a way to manage the migrations, because all we’re doing right now is demonstrating to the world that we are no better than any other third-world shithole
Ten Bears:
For a time, the US can absorb people. Our birth rate is less than two and similar to Europe’s. Our baby Boomer die off will create more room.
Having new blood will only make the nation stronger. The resource is here to provide for them in food, labor, and housing. That was the message of Joel Garreau’s “300 Million and Counting”. The empathy is not there only because the Jamie Dimons of the world seek to rule it for a few privileged. The rest of the anger by the masses is based upon ignorance. Control and anger. The former drives them.
It will not be in my time to convince them we are better off with newbies. Europe has understood this dynamic.
@Ten,
Agree with all this. In fact, I think it’s worse than that. Because of climate change, there will be global resource wars by 2050. Thanks to the internet, all the people whose lives are being destroyed by climate change know what the rest of the world has and will do what they need to to get it or die trying.
I tremble for our children and grandchildren.
Meanwhile, Trump continues to run the country, by getting GOP governors to send troops to Texas to be deployed to stop folks attempting to cross the border.
This co-presidenting is not good for the country.
USA Today: Republican states supporting Texas in border dispute
Full List of Republican Governors Backing Greg Abbott
Newsweek: A total of 25 Republican governors backed Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s “right to self-defense” in a joint statement issued on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Abbott issued a statement accusing President Joe Biden of violating “his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress.” Abbott has been fighting with the Justice Department over his migrant deterrent tactics as he tries to secure the U.S.-Mexico border from illegal crossings.
The joint statement by Abbott’s fellow Republican governors read: “We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border. …
Federalizing the relevant national guards ought to stop that.
I thought the relevant units were federalized when Bush sent them to Iraq?
Apparently not; they’re still setting up razor wire despite the Supreme Court’s decision. If they were federalized, they couldn’t take Abbot’s orders.
Indeed. It’s surprising to me that states could send ‘their’ troops off in this way.
It must be reassuring to those guv’nahs that they can pull this off. So far.
It indicates that the conventional wisdom that such forces are under the control of individual states is true. They are not just for use in local disaster relief, but can be put in harm’s way in other states at the whim not of the Federals.
Probably a bad precedent.
It does seem like nationalizing those forces would put a stop to this, but that would only further infuriate the alternative President. Don’t need that!
Haley Hits Trump on Border and His ‘Rants,’ Saying ‘He Feels Threatened’
NY Times – 4 hours ago
The Kevin Drum article, “How do we get control of the border?” linked to this post is very educational and one that many need to understand.
Immigration, and how we as a country deal with it, are complicated and confusing. A major part of the problem is ignorance and lack of understanding. The media in general has done a horrible job of educating the public on the subject of immigration.
Most American’s understanding of the immigration issues involves visions of thousands and thousands of mostly desperate brown people parked in the streets of Mexico, wading across the Rio Grande, or being captured by Border Patrol. The media is quick to emphasize the the number in millions, and stresses the terminology “illegal.”
With this vision ingrained in the minds of the public, charlatan politicians (who now control the GOP) are quick to offer solutions of walls, razor wire, and military enforcement. Until the media or educational system begins to educate the population on this issue, solutions will be difficult, if not impossible.
‘They’ would have us believe that it no longer matters about those Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free. I’d like to believe that is right up there with ‘All Men are Created Equal.’
The New Colossus – Wikipedia
US Quietly Resumes Deportation Flights Deep Into Mexico
NY Times – Feb 2