Subject: Re: NYC HS Students Forced....
JOHNSON: Yes, [the Trump] administration believes fervently that a deterrent message, or “consequence delivery,” as they refer to it, is the principal way to reduce illegal immigration. We want to make things so terrible for you that you would never think of coming here. But no deterrent message can overcome the desire to flee a burning building. That’s why we have to address the underlying causes.

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That is a good point. But keeping with the burning building metaphor, the immigrants are driven from their building by the flames and seek asylum at the local church. But not satisfied with simply being safe from the flames, they hear their is a place where you can get a whole lot of goodies and also be flame free. And that almost everyone is admitted, just get there.

It seems to me there is a pull factor apart from the danger the asylum seeker faced in their home country. Someone said we can't have both open borders and a generous welfare state. I think that lesson is coming home to roost.