Subject: Re: Why the border bill will fail
I live in AZ. Phoenix area.

There was a program several years ago (actually, more than a decade now). Even at that time they had almost complete border monitoring, and knew when people were crossing. Their issue was manpower to do anything about it (i.e. funding). I'm sure the tech has improved considerably since then. A wall is next to useless. As albaby has said, there are only limited stretches where you could even build a wall. And those stretches already have barriers.

Well, it's already moot. If Johnson doesn't entertain the bill, it dies. And he's apparently a MAGA-head, bowing before Trump. So it won't happen.

That just means more asylum-seekers in our future, released into the country to await hearing dates of up to four years. Meanwhile, they'll likely have babies while they're waiting...bouncing baby citizens whom cannot be deported (because they're, ya know, citizens). And no law can change that, because that is in the Constitution. Requires an actual amendment to change that one.

Not Biden, not Trump, not Haley, not anyone can change that by decree. This bill was the only chance, maybe for another generation...maybe even for the rest of my lifetime, given how politics work. The Reps had leverage, and they're frittering it away. I guess no skin off my nose.

I'm sure the progressive wing of the Dems is very happy.