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Family Separation at the Border: US citizens are now being detained

sorry that tweet wasn’t meant to be analysis in support or my argument with RJ. What’s misleading about it?
 
...In part at least, the rise in expulsions mirrors an increase in arrivals of Haitians at the border, misled by rumours and deliberate disinformation from people smugglers, that the Biden administration had relaxed the regime at the border. Most of the new arrivals have been waiting in Mexico for months hoping for a change in the rules affecting Haitians. Some of the deportees may also have been held in detention centres in the US...

“What gave Donald Trump his wall was Title 42. That has been incredibly more effective than any physical barrier,” said Ruben Garcia, the director of Annunciation House, a migrant support centre in El Paso, Texas. “This was never about the pandemic to begin with. This was precisely about border enforcement.”

The department of homeland security did not respond to a request for comment on Wednesday. The new administration has said it will take time to repair the Trump-era degradation of infrastructure for holding immigrants pending asylum requests.

It has ended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, (known formally as the Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP) which required asylum seekers to stay south of the border while their cases were processed. The change applies to Latin American migrants, but reports from the border suggest that Haitian asylum seekers in Mexico heard about the change and hoped it would make it easier for them to ask for asylum.

“[T]he partial opening of the border has caused confusion and misinformation in Haitian communities stuck in Mexico under the Title 42 policy,” the report said.

“Marginalized and isolated in Mexico by race, culture and language, Haitian migrants generally do not understand that MPP does not apply to them. Often misled by misinformation within the community or false rumors from ‘coyotes’ [smugglers or guides], Haitian migrants optimistically hope with MPP they can now seek protection if they enter the United States outside of a port of entry.”

The new administration has sought to combat those perceptions in the hope of forestalling a wave of new immigration from Haiti. On Wednesday the US embassy in Port-au-Prince put out a message from Biden in Creole on its Twitter account, saying “Mwen ka di sa byen klé: pa vini” (“I can say quite clearly, don’t come over.”)...
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MHBDemon said:
sorry that tweet wasn’t meant to be analysis in support or my argument with RJ. What’s misleading about it?
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Context helps. That’s the misleading part. How many Haitians did trump deport vs Biden?
 
RJKarl said:
To think anyone can snap their fingers and make this right overnight is delusional. No one even knew the depth of this problem. It's not "defending the status quo" to want figure out what has happened and how to fix it.
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But giving Biden a pass is equally unhelpful. Yes, Trump was much worse. Yes, Biden inherited a bad situation that will take time to undo. But the steps Biden has and had not taken also have consequences. To state the Biden hasn't done very well is not to say that there isn't some positive movement, or even a lack of confidence that things will improve. It's simply saying Biden could and should do better. He doesn't get a free pass just because Trump was worse.
 
You have to dig out the clog before the water will flow. When there's been enough time to rectify the situation, I'll take another look.
 
Feels like "the situation at the border" means different things to different people in this thread.
 
TenaciousKory said:
Feels like "the situation at the border" means different things to different people in this thread.
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It’s a great issue for people on the extremes. For some, any immigration is a crisis. For others, any deportation is a crisis.
 
we're talking about South of the Border here, right?

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Enabling and encouraging human and drug smugglers is not a humane policy by any standard. Yet, that is exactly what the Biden administration has done and wants you to believe that what they are doing is humane. In fact, it's so humane that they can't actually allow anyone, even their sycophants, to observe it. You just have to take their word for it. If there is anything the Biden administration does not want, it's people witnessing their awesome humanity.

And so y'all will just have to wait for the Biden administration to prepare for a proper Potemkin tour.
 
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sailordeac said:
Enabling and encouraging human and drug smugglers is not a humane policy by any standard. Yet, that is exactly what the Biden administration has done and wants you to believe that what they are doing is humane. In fact, it's so humane that they can't actually allow anyone, even their sycophants, to observe it. You just have to take their word for it. If there is anything the Biden administration does not want, it's people witnessing their awesome humanity.

And so y'all will just have to wait for the Biden administration to prepare for a proper Potemkin tour.
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So dumb. Amazing really.
 
TenaciousKory said:
Feels like "the situation at the border" means different things to different people in this thread.
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By the lack of activity recently on this thread, it feels like "kids in cages" is a big nothing burger to many posters who were screaming bloody murder over it 2 years ago.

The only difference? Now the president has a (D) following his name and they can't blame orange hitler anymore (although RJ tries his best... bless his heart).
 
Colonel Angus said:
By the lack of activity recently on this thread, it feels like "kids in cages" is a big nothing burger to many posters who were screaming bloody murder over it 2 years ago.

The only difference? Now the president has a (D) following his name and they can't blame orange hitler anymore (although RJ tries his best... bless his heart).
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Virtually all of the opinions of the left are phoney, and for some of them their opinions are not just phoney but also heartfelt.
 
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