There is a school of thought which holds that Obama and the Democrats are manufacturing this border crisis with the intent of making the situation so emotional and heartwrenching that the mean old Republicans will cave on comprehensive immigration reform; thereby granting the Democrats a complete victory on the issue.
Yes. That's from the Conservative State University of Aѕѕhattery's School of Ignorance and Idiocy where they also teach that the Obama administration is so keen on not deporting them because of demographic and politics in an effort to change the voting population 10-15 years down the road. It's the same school of higher learning that conveniently omits teaching the fact that this can all be traced directly back to Junior.
The deliberate refusal to enforce immigration and border control policy has created this mess. Send the children back to their home country and secure the border or what we are witnessing today will be just one of many human wave assaults on our nation. Fix the problem or simply stop pretending we have borders.
Republicans blame Democrats for it, and Democrats blame Republicans for it, but the reality is the deliberate refusal to enforce immigration and border control policy has been perpetuated by every administration since the beginning of the
Bracero Program in 1942 which encouraged the importation of Mexicans for cheap labor during the war. After the program ended, Republicans still favored the cheap labor and the Democrats favored he changing demographics, so both turned a blind eye to it all. The American people overwhelmingly want the borders closed and illegal immigration to stop, yet those in power clearly don't.
Junior doubled the number of Border Patrol agents to the current 21,000, which should be plenty enough to seriously stem the tide along the 1,954 mile border (that's 10.75 agents per mile). The problem is, the vast majority of agents are assigned to duties where illegal immigration is a low levels. Whenever one area gets beefed up, the illegals and smugglers simply move to an area left unguarded. Agents already in place don't want to take manpower from current assignments because that would open up those crossings to more illegals.
And you can't just quickly move agents to other places, you first have to negotiate the reassignments with the Border Patrol Council, the union which represents the agents. They have a collective bargaining agreement which protects everything from duty stations to the use of cell phones while on the clock. If you're assigned to a plush 72 degree San Diego, the last thing you're likely to do is volunteer for an assignment in 115 degree Buttcrack Nowhere, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley. Instead of deploying agents along the border, they are stacked up near the populated areas. They drag the dirt roads with old tractor tires so they can check the next day for footprints of people who illegally crossed, but they don't go back out there that night to catch the next group of people trying to cross. Instead they go 30 miles north and park, sitting there looking for someone who might have crossed 2 days ago and is still wandering around in the scrub brush.
The US Border Patrol is a government-run operation, and like every other government-run operation in the history of the US government-run operations it's broken, convoluted, impotent, and expensive. The fact that the politicians, both Republican and Democrat since 1942 don't want it to work, isn't helping the situation. If they wanted to secure and close the borders, they could do it today,
right now.
