A Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis

[Birds Away]

If there aren't enough jobs for the current citizens of this country, please explain how adding over 11 million more is going to help the economy? Supply and demand applies to workers just like it applies to products. Adding a massive amount to the pool of job seekers can't do anything but depress wages. Then the liberal dip****s will attempt to "correct" this with aritificial wage controls and our economy will crash and burn. The only thing that Socialism has ever achieved, historically, is shared misery.

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

There was an event. Some say increased violence and threat of life due to drug and gang violence. Others say it was orchestrated and perpetrated through the central America media for the purpose of making money (mules/coyotes in conjunction with cartels). This is a flood that's spiked since October of last year and shows no end in sight. It's on purpose. A flagrant abuse of a perceived loophole, initiated and sustained by adults trying to make money, it's success has been secured by the US media and therefore will continue to pour forth north to our borders.

I don't see refugees. I see young people (mostly male mostly over the age of 14), duped into a scheme to make money, and the US border patrol is caught in the middle with no relief in sight. Greed and larceny always leave victims in it's wake. The drug cartels are fairly free to move across the border, the border patrol are overwhelmed and frustrated, coyotes/mules are making money hand over fist, Mexican officials and security are making money turning their eyes away, ..., greed at it's worst. Refugees - no. Victims - probably.

 

[88GT]

Isn't it legal to surrender to the border patrol and then proceed through the system with the current law? Isn't that what hey are doing?

No, they are crossing illegally and claiming a status that doesn't apply to them.

 

[IndyDave1776]

If there aren't enough jobs for the current citizens of this country, please explain how adding over 11 million more is going to help the economy? Supply and demand applies to workers just like it applies to products. Adding a massive amount to the pool of job seekers can't do anything but depress wages. Then the liberal dip****s will attempt to "correct" this with aritificial wage controls and our economy will crash and burn. The only thing that Socialism has ever achieved, historically, is shared misery.

Absolutely true! Ever so often a group of nefarious developers known as socialists succeed at securing or taking at gunpoint authorization to build this theme park that they promise people will be all fun and games. Unfortunately, every time it is tried, it results in power shortages, food shortages, and perhaps most obvious, the ride which is its centerpiece attraction, the Workers' Paradise, is constantly broken down.