GOP can bring it up anytime if it was really an issue they cared about.. I would say the border will kick in sometime around September when mid term elections are the current issue de jour...
step 1: Create refugee bottle neck on sussy COVID grounds. step 2: Once bottle neck becomes crisis, blame new guy. step 3: Push righty media video of problem created to avoid using the fix that was already in place. cliffs: Break it and then blame guy who has to deal w/it.
So according to you, these Russian or Ukrainian asylum seekers should've asked for it in Georgia/Armenia/etc... and waited there?
In their latest stunt, the GOP can't find any illegal immigrants crossing the border... despite claims they would see thousands of them. I take it the Biden administration is doing such a good job at the border that no illegal immigrants make it into the U.S. for Jim Jordan's show & tell event. U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, House Republicans scour southern border, but don’t find any illegal crossings https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023...rder-but-dont-find-any-illegal-crossings.html Republican members of Congress eager to see immigrants illegally entering the United States gathered late Wednesday night in roughly a dozen vehicles, some clearly marked as belonging to police, to search the Arizona border with Mexico. As they rumbled along the entry port of San Luis, a dam along the Colorado River and more desolate sections of the U.S. border between Arizona and Mexico, though, their search came up empty. Hours later, immigration officials would spot a group crossing north, but it was long after Congress members had retired for the night. The cold and windy night marked the start of a House Judiciary Committee convoy to the border, led by its chairman, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican. Jordan has taken the committee’s gavel as the GOP gained control of the U.S. House of Representatives following the 2022 election, promising new investigations and legislative priorities. Immigration has been among his first targets, though his policy-making prospects remain unclear as Democrats control both the U.S. Senate and the White House. No Democrats were along for the ride to the border. They declined to join the convoy, made up of more than a dozen congressional Republicans, a large contingent of staffers and a handful of reporters. The top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, New York’s Jerrold Nadler, described it as a “stunt hearing,” saying his members didn’t get enough notice of the trip to make plans to attend. He said they’d make their own trip to the border next month to “hear from the community and government officials on the ground.” Jordan’s group was told that around 4,000 immigrants cross the U.S. border near Yuma each day, but its conspicuous presence thwarted the expedition’s goal of spotting immigrants attempting an unobtrusive entry. Although a bus could be seen parked across the border at one stop, nobody emerged. U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar, an Arizona Republican who represents much of Yuma, said immigrants from dozens of countries, including Haiti, Cuba, Russia, Venezuela and Uzbekistan enter the nation through holes in desolate sections of the border wall in his district. He claimed that many dress in expensive new clothes for the trip, so they’ll be less likely to stand out after entering the United States. He said some used to enter the country through a tunnel that deposited them in a fast food restaurant on the U.S. side of the border, before border patrol agents caught on and shuttered that pathway. Nowadays, he said many of them cross into farmers’ fields, discarding trash along the way. Their litter and their defecation in the dry vegetable fields irrigated by the Colorado River forces farmers to trash the produce in those fields to avoid spreading E. coli contamination, said Gosar. Gosar and other residents of the community beside the state’s California border like to boast that it supplies more than 90 percent of the nation’s produce between October and May, including most of the nation’s bagged lettuce. It also grows more Medjool dates than the Middle East. Art Del Cueto, the National Border Patrol Council vice president who led the Wednesday night tour, told the group that some immigrants who enter the country actually call Ubers to take them to local restaurants so they won’t be hungry as they await processing from immigration authorities, who take their names and let them proceed into the United States. Standing beside a section of the border wall whose construction was urged by former President Donald Trump, Del Cueto said illegal immigration problems worsened after President Joe Biden took office because his administration stopped enforcing existing laws designed to encourage legal immigration instead of illegal entry. He describes an upcoming new immigration policy as “smoke and mirrors” that won’t stop the flow because “realistically, all they would need to do when they come across is to say ‘I request to see an immigration judge,’ and then they’re gonna be released anyway.” “What works, honestly , is you have to get the right policies,” Del Cueto continued. “You have to detain them and not just release them. If you detain people, that alone will be a deterrent.” Immigration officials, however, say enforcement measures are working, pointing to statistics that show Border Patrol encounters between designated ports of entry in January were at their lowest level in nearly two years. U.S. Border Patrol encounters between southwest border ports of entry last month totaled 128,410, down 42% from the 221,675 reported in December 2022, according to a February report from the agency. The agency said in its release that the drop was far more than would be expected from a seasonal trend, attributing the sharp fall-off to new administration policies announced in January “expanding safe and orderly lawful processes for migration while applying consequences to those who do not avail themselves of those processes.” U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, who is herself an immigrant from Ukraine, said the nation should “encourage good people” to enter the country, but it should be done legally and immigration authorities must track who’s entering. She said open borders could allow “bad people” to slip through. “This is a national security crisis, and also bad for the poor people that become pawns to cartels,” said Spartz. “I would say it’s a form of modern day slavery, where these poor people are used by others who are smuggling them to make a lot of money. And I think that’s not a good situation for them.” On Thursday, Jordan’s group plans to visit a local hospital and food bank, and discuss border issues with Yuma city officials.
Not News: Republicans stage event to whine about the border. Stupid News: The Canadian border. Obvious News: They don't really care and are just using it to smear Biden Yep, according to GOP -- the Canadian border is now the problem. Christ, the mass influx of Canadians may make America more polite. U.S. Republicans are now warning: Migration from Canada is a problem https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/illegal-migration-canada-u-s-border-1.6763492