Chinese migrants are fastest growing group crossing into U.S. from Mexico

[Individual]

Economic and political instability in many developing nations is what's done the trick. South American countries are struggling post pandemic, and we're seeing many more coming from there as a result. China's economy is slowing down, which is also leading to more people leaving and finding better opportunities elsewhere.

Regardless of reasons, there should be but one way to gain entry into the U.S. and be allowed to remain.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Regardless of reasons, there should be but one way to gain entry into the U.S. and be allowed to remain.

Current laws allow for different ways to go about doing that, which is why legislating that change is what's been required for a long time now.

 

[Individual]

Current laws allow for different ways to go about doing that, which is why legislating that change is what's been required for a long time now.

There needs to be but one way, the right way.

 

[ElChupacabra]

There needs to be one way, the right way.

Again, the laws as they exist allow for people to claim asylum by crossing the border, which is technically "the right way".

 

[Individual]

Again, the laws as they exist allow for people to claim asylum by crossing the border, which is technically "the right way".

The law needs clarification, to define how crossing the border MUST be done.

 

[ThirdTerm]

Chinese nationals are coming from the southern border because they do not need a visa to pass through Ecuador. But their numbers are small compared to those from Latin America. Historically, America always maintained an open-door policy for Latin Americans. Even in the time of the Chinese Exclusion Act, there was no immigration quota for Mexicans. Mexicans were specifically excluded from the immigration quotas in the 1920s, when southern and eastern Europeans were barred from getting in and Asian migrants were entirely banned.

Until the 1920s, the Mexican border was basically open. Mexicans were specifically excluded from the immigration quotas of 1921 and 1924 that radically reduced immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Convinced that cheap Mexican laborers were indispensable to southwestern agriculture, Congress imposed no limit on immigration from the Western Hemisphere, though it did establish a patrol along the Mexican border and imposed an eight dollar head tax and a ten dollar visa fee. In 1929, the federal government required Mexicans to obtain visas in order to enter the United States. During the late 1920s, professional labor contractors and border-crossing experts helped immigrants avoid the head tax and the expense of a visa and bureaucratic delays at the border.

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[LouC]

The primary issue, as I see it, first and foremost needing to be solved is illegal entry into the U.S.

Keeping new undocumented aliens from entering is paramount.

That will take additional physical infrastructure at the Border, but that would only be a slowing down deterrent to crossers, any physical improvements at the border will still need an increase in the CBP agency staffing to traverse those physical barriers with live agent patrols.

About 44% of the cases of illegals here, up until recently, were Illegal Stays in the U.S., where folks came in legally, and then lost legal allowance to be here, but have not been removed. Eliminating those issues will again take increase in staffing.

The primary issue at this point in time is a massive failure of Congresses and Presidents (all of them in my lifetime) to keep our Immigration Services fully and adequately staffed.

We have had a dire need for hiring in the CBP, the rate of hiring has not kept pace with the ongoing needs and attrition in the department. President Trump spent $100 million on a supposed aggressive recruiting program that just totally failed. I have not really seen any better acts by the Biden Administration to fix this issue.

We have also a dire situation of staffing shortfalls within the Immigration Courts such that there are insane backlogs for asylum seeker application cases, overstay cases, and the timely processing of newly detained undocumented immigrants.

The solution, IMO, is quite simple.

Ah, simple, via opinion everything is simple.

Federal law should, with no exceptions, clearly and concisely state that entry from any point other than a legal check point is a Federal crime which will result in immediate return to where entry was made from, Mexico in the Southern border case.

Who will enforce this Federal Law as in finding and capturing and adjudicating these alleged illegal entrants?

First though, to make your opinion work one would have to Amend the U.S. Constitution to suspend due process protections.

Checkpoint entry would prioritize those seeking asylum, though they would be given a lengthy wait to seek re-entry if they failed to prove their case for asylum and as a result be deported.

We already have asylum seeker applications and processing and methods for handling those who fail to make their asylum seeking cases be accepted.

What we lack is adequate staffing and courts to handle the numbers of applications being sought for asylum, this is leading to the essential "dumping" of legal aliens into untracked and unrealistic stasis.

LPR would only be gained by those who enter legally.

With or without time and or other limitations and requirements to remain?

The number of migrants seeking LPR daily should not exceed what our government has the ability to process quickly without increasing the burden on taxpayers to grow that number.

That is fine, once we have fixed the insane backlog of those already, here but yet to be adjudicated.

Perhaps the punishment for illegal entry could be made a stiff fine and/or deportation,

There are already some of these in place, deportation for one, and in particular for second or more illegal entry aliens, there are stiffer penalties.

What if the illegal entrant has no money to pay a fine, stiff or not?

Will each illegal be made to pay the stiff fines, all members of an alien family, or even the UAC's?

where those who pay the fine would be given a shorter wait period than those who do not.

Pay to play, the Capitalist way!

 

[Individual]

Keeping new undocumented aliens from entering is paramount.

That will take additional physical infrastructure at the Border, but that would only be a slowing down deterrent to crossers, any physical improvements at the border will still need an increase in the CBP agency staffing to traverse those physical barriers with live agent patrols.

About 44% of the cases of illegals here, up until recently, were Illegal Stays in the U.S., where folks came in legally, and then lost legal allowance to be here, but have not been removed. Eliminating those issues will again take increase in staffing.

The primary issue at this point in time is a massive failure of Congresses and Presidents (all of them in my lifetime) to keep our Immigration Services fully and adequately staffed.

We have had a dire need for hiring in the CBP, the rate of hiring has not kept pace with the ongoing needs and attrition in the department. President Trump spent $100 million on a supposed aggressive recruiting program that just totally failed. I have not really seen any better acts by the Biden Administration to fix this issue.

We have also a dire situation of staffing shortfalls within the Immigration Courts such that there are insane backlogs for asylum seeker application cases, overstay cases, and the timely processing of newly detained undocumented immigrants.

Ah, simple, via opinion everything is simple.

Who will enforce this Federal Law as in finding and capturing and adjudicating these alleged illegal entrants?

First though, to make your opinion work one would have to Amend the U.S. Constitution to suspend due process protections.

We already have asylum seeker applications and processing and methods for handling those who fail to make their asylum seeking cases be accepted.

What we lack is adequate staffing and courts to handle the numbers of applications being sought for asylum, this is leading to the essential "dumping" of legal aliens into untracked and unrealistic stasis.

With or without time and or other limitations and requirements to remain?

That is fine, once we have fixed the insane backlog of those already, here but yet to be adjudicated.

There are already some of these in place, deportation for one, and in particular for second or more illegal entry aliens, there are stiffer penalties.

What if the illegal entrant has no money to pay a fine, stiff or not?

Will each illegal be made to pay the stiff fines, all members of an alien family, or even the UAC's?

Pay to play, the Capitalist way!

Overstays by those who entered legally is another issue, but that too could be resolved.
Finding and arresting those who enter illegally or overstayed their visas would be the responsibility of the Immigration department, though law enforcement could help.
What exactly does the Constitution say about due process relative to those who enter illegally?
The fine can be dropped and just deported.
Families would remain together and treated as one.