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[–] BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait so Biden revives a Trump policy……and now Republicans have a problem with it, but don’t give specifics as to why they suddenly have a problem with it?

Is there anything he can do right in their eyes???

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Its not that. Its the timing. Hes changing policies in the short term, and as soon as hes elected hell go right back to letting everyone in.

[–] BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Oh so your problem with it is what you think he’s going to do in the future after he’s re-elected, rather than the thing he actually did?

[–] odium@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I know a family trying to take a three week vacation to the US. They applied for a visa. They need to do an interview to get the visa. The interview is scheduled a year and a half from the day they applied and is on a random weekday in a city 8 hours from where they live. They don't live in the middle of nowhere, they live in a huge city with a population of over 15 million.

They applied in 2023. Is this considered letting everyone in?

I have a coworker who's here on a work visa. He has a master's degree and works in a high demand field, making over 200k a year. His visa renewal was rejected and he has to leave in a few months. Do you consider this letting everyone in?

What's your reasoning for thinking that he lets everyone in?

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem is that they're trying to do it legally.

[–] odium@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/detentionstats/pop_agen_table.html

38000 ppl currently detained by ice and cbp for illegal border crossing. That's a lot of ppl not being let in.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thats magnitudes less than the millions Border Patrol catches and releases every year. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters

[–] odium@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That's millions by year and my statistic is for a month. Looks like your statistic shows 170k encounters for the most recent month which is what we should compare to the 38k detained.

That's roughly just under a quarter of encounters getting detained. Being encountered but not detained doesn't mean they are let into the US. They get sent back. Detaining people costs more money than sending people back.

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 4 months ago

No, theyre detained for a little bit and released into the US