So, in other words, the Democrats caved because they said they wanted to REDUCE the number of beds, not INCREASE them!
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Some history:
The USBP first began erecting physical barriers in 1990 to deter illegal entries and drug smuggling in its San Diego sector. The ensuing 14-mile-long San Diego āprimary fenceā formed part of the USBPās āPrevention Through Deterrenceā strategy, which called for reducing unauthorized migration by placing agents and resources directly on the border along population centers in order to deter would-be migrants from entering the country. In 1996, Congress passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act which, among other things, explicitly gave the Attorney General (now the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security) broad authority to construct barriers along the border and authorized the construction of a secondary layer of fencing to buttress the completed 14-mile primary fence. Construction of the secondary fence stalled due to environmental concerns raised by the California Coastal Commission. In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act that authorized the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to waive all legal requirements in order to expedite the construction of border barriers. DHS has announced it will use this waiver authority to complete the San Diego fence. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 directed DHS to construct 850 miles of additional border fencing. This requirement was subsequently modified by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (P.L. 110-161), which was enacted into law on December 26, 2007. The Act requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to construct fencing along not fewer than 700 miles of the southwest border.
While the San Diego fence, combined with an increase in agents and other resources in the USBPās San Diego sector, has proven effective in reducing the number of apprehensions made in that sector, there is considerable evidence that the flow of illegal immigration has adapted to this enforcement posture and has shifted to the more remote areas of the Arizona desert. Nationally, the USBP made 1.2 million apprehensions in 1992 and again in 2004, suggesting that the increased enforcement in San Diego sector has had little impact on overall apprehensions.
As always: this didnāt begin with Trump, and it wasnāt just the Republicans.
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navarro
February 18, 2019, 3:26am
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unfortunately this is nothing new, we did this to detainees at guantanamo as well.
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But he is openly and unquestionably both brown and foreign soā¦
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Reporter Gareth Porter, historian Greg Grandin, and journalist Hana Baba are this weekās podcast guests.
Est. reading time: 60 minutes
Greg Grandin interview begins at 33:30.
S: But to go into the real world here explain how you see this particular moment that weāre in with this shutdown and the so-called battle over the border.
GG: I see it as a long climax of what I call the bordification of national politics or the nationalization of border brutalism. Just the way that the violence, and xenophobia, nativism that has long been marginalized or concentrated on the border has become nationalized. Trump is the outcome of decades and decades of policy and heās not wrong when he blames the Democrats. The Democrats have bought into a security first framework going back to at least Bill Clinton, but you can even make the case to Jimmy Carter, that has led to this current moment.
Bill Clinton: Not only in the states most heavily affected but in every place in this country people are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. Thatās why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
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Weird, but Grandin just popped up today, for his new book on slavery and freedom:
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If he thinks he might get himself deported by claiming to be a member of the IRA, not only wonāt it work but this famous Congressional opponent of Muslim immigrants will likely throw him a parade:
King began actively supporting the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s. He frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with senior members of the paramilitary group, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), many of whom he counted as friends. King compared Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn FĆ©in, the political wing of the Irish republican movement, to George Washington, and asserted that the "British government is a murder machine". However, he apparently did not meet Ada King became...
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