Subject: Re: Our worst enemy
BmH: I think he sees the 40% success as worth the trade-off. Thus he can't lend any support or sympathy for the conservative issue over the cost of supporting the other 60% or the bad guys that hide within the overall swarm.



DOPE: I think he's also unwilling to acknowledge that system get gamed, and that our system is being gamed big time.

The way the asylum laws are being applied right now, I could be a citizen from anywhere, jump on a plane to Mexico and hire a coyote to take me over the border. If I got caught by CBP I say the magic asylum words and I'm paroled into the country (something else he's not acknowledging).

No. I think he's saying that if the crowd was full of people gaming the system, and that "magic words" got you paroled into the USA, we would be seeing 3-7% success, not the 33-40% success we have now, so it isn't happening. You have to adjust to the fact that 40% success means either 1. the cursory original screening review is amazingly effective (they may be much better at that than we think they could be), 2. the criteria are too loose and need adjusting, and 3. those people who choose to game the system aren't using coming across the border claiming asylum (Exmple: fly in on a Visa and then just overstay, or apply for asylum or another avenue so you don't have to leave)

My court date is 7+ years away amongst a backlog of 2 million cases. For all practical intents and purposes...I'm here to stay.

That's not sustainable.

But it looks like it's going to be sustained for another 20 years. Tell ya what Dope, I'll agree to zero as a trigger for a year for a years full funding of Ukraine. Deal?