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What should we do about illegal immigration? (1 Viewer)

Three years ago my wife and I submitted I-130 petitions for her adult children to enter the US. Their priority dates are 12/09/2019
We took this action after they were both denied tourist visa's.

Her un-married son was just approved in June. His case now gets transferred to the NVC [ National Visa Center]
Currently the visa bulletin is processing priority dated of December 1 2014. Yes they are eight years behind.

Her daughter who is widowed, thus classified differently, is still pending with USCIS.



The legal entry process needs to be streamlined and made more easy to navigate. One should not need a $2000.00 attorney to handle the paperwork.

The boarder needs to be locked down, and illegal crossings need to end. Once that happens, all options should be on the table. And a solution somewhere in the middle of full amnesty and deportation should be reached.
We can’t lock down the border and it’s not going to happen. Illegal crossings are never going to stop. You can lower them, perhaps significantly, by increasing legal immigration, and we should. But you will never stop it and declaring that you won’t consider solutions to this issue until the border is shut down simply means you won’t consider solutions to this issue.

Also, your family’s situation has nothing to do with the migrants crossing our border. You’re not in the same line as them. For most of them there is no line.

Sure. Keep replacing the carpet while the roof is still leaking.
 
Three years ago my wife and I submitted I-130 petitions for her adult children to enter the US. Their priority dates are 12/09/2019
We took this action after they were both denied tourist visa's.

Her un-married son was just approved in June. His case now gets transferred to the NVC [ National Visa Center]
Currently the visa bulletin is processing priority dated of December 1 2014. Yes they are eight years behind.

Her daughter who is widowed, thus classified differently, is still pending with USCIS.



The legal entry process needs to be streamlined and made more easy to navigate. One should not need a $2000.00 attorney to handle the paperwork.

The boarder needs to be locked down, and illegal crossings need to end. Once that happens, all options should be on the table. And a solution somewhere in the middle of full amnesty and deportation should be reached.
We can’t lock down the border and it’s not going to happen. Illegal crossings are never going to stop. You can lower them, perhaps significantly, by increasing legal immigration, and we should. But you will never stop it and declaring that you won’t consider solutions to this issue until the border is shut down simply means you won’t consider solutions to this issue.

Also, your family’s situation has nothing to do with the migrants crossing our border. You’re not in the same line as them. For most of them there is no line.

Sure. Keep replacing the carpet while the roof is still leaking.
The roof isn’t leaking.
 
We can’t shut down the border, but we can control it, easily. But that means spending much more money, not on useless walls or more security, but on processing refugees so they’re not waiting months or years to find out their status. And it means letting a lot more of these folks in, after making sure they’re healthy and not felons.
 
We can’t shut down the border, but we can control it, easily. But that means spending much more money, not on useless walls or more security, but on processing refugees so they’re not waiting months or years to find out their status. And it means letting a lot more of these folks in, after making sure they’re healthy and not felons.


we are incapable of taking in hundreds of millions of people - there HAS to be limits/quota's on how many come to the USA every year

it all starts with first shutting the border solid and because all those people refuse to obey our laws ... it'll have to be done with armed guards/military or, force Mexico to stop allowing the cartels to human traffic

literally American's are dying and suffering because of this massive problem that's being ignored continually

 
Not sure exactly where this belongs, but this is close enough. There was recently a very nice study done that tackled the veracity of the previously taken-for-granted statement that illegal immigrants commit crimes at lower rates that citizens. I've seen this stated many, many times in here and Tim has trumpeted it repeatedly when we talk about immigrants and crime. Pro-immigration forces in DC and elsewhere love this statement.

As it turns out, this is completely false. Crime rates among illegal immigrants are higher than the general populace. When taking more than a cursory look at the data it turns out that it's hard to correctly ID many of these folks as illegal immigrants. They do tend to eventually get ID'ed, particularly when serving long sentences for serious crimes. It was found that in many crime categories there was a chronic 50+% undercount due to this ID issue. This means that as sentences get shorter it gets harder to correct these stats as folks get released before proper ID, but that longer sentences for serious crimes allow for a more accurate look at the real rates. It also means that these statistics will always undercount the proportion of criminal activity by illegal immigrants. So these corrected stats are a lower bound and the real numbers are yet again higher.

This is an incredibly important study that corrects a significant misunderstanding about this population.

 

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