Biden’s presidency has continued and expanded upon Trump’s migration policies, rather than breaking from them. In early 2020, Trump used the COVID pandemic as an excuse to invoke Title 42, enabling the expulsion of migrants and asylum seekers at the border, which resulted in the detention and deportation of nearly 400,000 migrants before Trump left office. Instead of revoking this policy once he became president, Biden defended it, and oversaw the deportation of 2.8 million people under the policy between January 2021 and May 2023, expanding it to include Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. In May 2023, Biden replaced Title 42 with another harsh set of regulations, increasing requirements for migrants to be eligible for asylum. Throughout his presidential tenure, Biden has also increased funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and expanded ICE contracts and ICE surveillance programs.
I know a family trying to take a three week vacation to the US. They applied for a visa. They need to do an interview to get the visa. The interview is scheduled a year and a half from the day they applied and is on a random weekday in a city 8 hours from where they live. They don’t live in the middle of nowhere, they live in a huge city with a population of over 15 million.
They applied in 2023. Is this considered letting everyone in?
I have a coworker who’s here on a work visa. He has a master’s degree and works in a high demand field, making over 200k a year. His visa renewal was rejected and he has to leave in a few months. Do you consider this letting everyone in?
What’s your reasoning for thinking that he lets everyone in?
That’s millions by year and my statistic is for a month. Looks like your statistic shows 170k encounters for the most recent month which is what we should compare to the 38k detained.
That’s roughly just under a quarter of encounters getting detained. Being encountered but not detained doesn’t mean they are let into the US. They get sent back. Detaining people costs more money than sending people back.
When he does something Repubs like, rage anyway over perceived incoming unlikable thing.
What if you’re wrong and he doesn’t reverse this later? Also why don’t you conserve your rage until you have something tangible in this situation to rage about?
Its not that. Its the timing. Hes changing policies in the short term, and as soon as hes elected hell go right back to letting everyone in.
https://truthout.org/articles/dont-let-bidens-latest-protections-excuse-his-rightward-lurch-on-immigration/
Increased ice budget
I know a family trying to take a three week vacation to the US. They applied for a visa. They need to do an interview to get the visa. The interview is scheduled a year and a half from the day they applied and is on a random weekday in a city 8 hours from where they live. They don’t live in the middle of nowhere, they live in a huge city with a population of over 15 million.
They applied in 2023. Is this considered letting everyone in?
I have a coworker who’s here on a work visa. He has a master’s degree and works in a high demand field, making over 200k a year. His visa renewal was rejected and he has to leave in a few months. Do you consider this letting everyone in?
What’s your reasoning for thinking that he lets everyone in?
The problem is that they’re trying to do it legally.
https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/detentionstats/pop_agen_table.html
38000 ppl currently detained by ice and cbp for illegal border crossing. That’s a lot of ppl not being let in.
Thats magnitudes less than the millions Border Patrol catches and releases every year. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
That’s millions by year and my statistic is for a month. Looks like your statistic shows 170k encounters for the most recent month which is what we should compare to the 38k detained.
That’s roughly just under a quarter of encounters getting detained. Being encountered but not detained doesn’t mean they are let into the US. They get sent back. Detaining people costs more money than sending people back.
No, theyre detained for a little bit and released into the US
But he isn’t letting everyone in. Very important point.
Oh so your problem with it is what you think he’s going to do in the future after he’s re-elected, rather than the thing he actually did?
He did it for the last 3 and a half years. Do you really think hes going to stop now?
Which is my point exactly.
When he does something Repubs don’t like, rage.
When he does something Repubs like, rage anyway over perceived incoming unlikable thing.
What if you’re wrong and he doesn’t reverse this later? Also why don’t you conserve your rage until you have something tangible in this situation to rage about?
That is the issue.