No. of Recommendations: 4
Along with Chinese and many others. What's your point?
Trivial numbers of Chinese or other nationalities. The overwhelming majority are Spanish-speaking.
The point is that if you show up at the border speaking something other than Spanish, you're going to stand out. You're going to be noticeable. And if you also don't have any identification, you're going to be exceptionally unusual. Which makes it even more likely that you're going to get looked at more closely to see if you're really who you say you are. Which makes it - again - a phenomenally stupid move if you're trying to get into the country unnoticed.
You can have more immigration judges, but I want all the special programs shut down, coyotes rounded up and prosecuted, the wall built and many more deportations plus a crackdown on those working illegally. Deal?
No. There are legitimate policy arguments in favor of many of the "special programs" - there's a very good reason why we're trying to treat the Afghans who cooperated with the U.S. government more favorably (for example) than run-of-the-mill asylees. There are also policy reasons why we don't crack down on those working illegally - if you make it so they can't work, then they're poorer and cause problems for social systems. There are detriments to both those things, of course - but those are policy and priority debates, not a no-brainer like getting more judges.
We can't round up an prosecute all the coyotes, because they're generally not subject to U.S. jurisdiction. We can't "build the wall" because most of the border is in the river. We already have "many more deportations" - removals are tracking well above even the highest levels of the Trump years.
There are no policy reasons in favor of understaffing the judicial part of border control. All it does is create massive problems - there are no policy benefits or objectives, it just creates a political headache that can be blamed on Biden.
But the best way to get more deportations is to beef up the judicial processing. Every failed asylum request is a deportation. All the other Title 8 removal proceedings that are held up because of hearing dates will result in a deportation if you speed them up.
