The administration believes that there is a crisis at the border, despite the lack of proof. Indeed, the rate of influx at the border is down compared to previous years. And they are willing to shut down the government to make a point. It impacts about 800,000 federal employees and some services for the public such as the National Park Service.
President Trump arrived at the border this Thursday on a trip (that he did not want to take) to discuss a crisis that Democrats say does not exist, repeating his request for a long-promised border wall that has led to a bitter political impasse and a 20-day government shutdown.
These closures reinforce the idea that the government is broken. The idea that this is the government, instead of our government is a recent and disturbing trend. People believe that government is inefficient and corrupt. We should not feel that these problems, such as immigration are too big to solve.
According to the Pew Research Center “people who lived less than 350 miles from the border were the least likely to support using a wall. People who lived less than 350 miles from the border were the least likely to support Trump’s wall. In other words, the people supposedly on the front lines of what Trump calls a crisis are those least inclined to support the proposed solution to it. People who live along the border are used to politicians — at both the local and state level — fearmongering about their hometowns”
“A lot of tourists will call up to my office and say, ‘Is it safe out there?’” the sheriff, Ronny Dodson, told Chris Hooks at the time. “We’ll ask where they’re coming from. They’ll say ‘Houston.’ We’ll say, hurry up and get out of there! It’s safer here than where you’re coming from.” The political rhetoric is feeding real fear — among people who live far from the border.
Actually, the US has been increasing security on its southern border since the 1990s.and Border Patrol has expanded radically. This is feeding real fear — among people who live far from the border.
Over the past several years, adults traveling with children — and children traveling alone — have made up an ever-increasing share of people apprehended at the border. The government has only been keeping separate statistics on apprehensions of families and children since 2012 and the numbers in the past few months are a record for that (brief) period — even outpacing the peak of the “border crisis” in June 2014.
There are multiple reasons for this. More than 150,000 children or family members were apprehended by Border Patrol in fiscal year 2018. That’s nearly 10 percent of the overall apprehensions in 2000.
The death of two childres has raised questions about medical needs at the border. Also, at ports of entry, where it is legal to cross without papers if you wish to seek asylum in the US, some officials have told families to wait, or turned them away to come back later, in a semi-official policy known as “metering.” Metering has increased the incentive for families to cross between ports of entry illegally.
So, what about due process, guaranteed under the Constitution’s Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and allowing for fair treatment under the law. asylum-seekers are protected under US law and international refugee and asylum laws. If somebody comes across the border illegally, is caught or turned themselves into a Border Patrol agent and says, ‘I want asylum”, then at that point, they are interviewed by an asylum officer — called a “credible fear interview.” Asylum-seekers are exempted from immediate removal from the United States ibecause of our international treaty obligations. Edited with BlogPad Pro
