Subject: Re: Why the border bill will fail
Because the current situation doesn't have any triggers. Or the ability to keep up with the flow of migrants.

The correct answer to the number of illegals allowed in is zero. If you're going to bother to pass legislation at all, then that's the level to set.

And that's the crux of what I've been "fulminating" about: if the current level of influx at the border is a crisis and you're going to codify literally a million illegal aliens a year - what this bill does - then...how does codifying the crisis in law help?

At all? The answer is that it doesn't. Not only does it not help, it actually makes things worse.

but you seem to misunderstand that everything about it is an improvement over the present situation in terms of reducing

I'm sorry, but no. You're the one who's not getting it at all.

One more time. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/s...
Official CBP numbers.

Processing Disposition Oct-23 Nov-23 Dec-23
Notice To Appear/Own Recognizance (NTA-OR) 122,716 131,295 191,141

First: Do you agree that what we have right now is a crisis?
Because if you do, then you should note that this bill allows 150,000 illegals in a month. Which puts it a little under the average of two of the worst months we've ever had.

This would be baked into the law. Why? That's insane.

The bill increases the number of detention beds while cutting the amount of time to process asylee requests (both by increasing immigration judge levels and by providing for increased administrative disposition of applications). I

This is the particular hill you're dying on. What you neglect to mention is that we already have a 2M or so case backlog. How does this bill address that given that it allows another 1.5M people in a year?

Oh, and can you tell me how much money is there for an actual wall?

The triggers are just the emergency backstop - if there's a short-term burst of asylees at any one time (which happens in peak season), the border gets shut down so that they can't apply while the system is overloaded.

The triggers aren't an emergency backup. Why is this a notion? The triggers are also purely optional. There is no "short term burst". Look at the numbers. That's the new normal.

What is your actual objection to any of these changes? They all make the system tighter against migrants.

You guys keep saying this, but the actual bill does not do any such thing.