you had to cross at certain points and file for asylum (the right way),

Which provided the nativists with pix of massive numbers of brown people lined up to enter the US.

Then another half were denied at their final hearing. (roughly 1-2 years)

Which provided the nativists with another talking point "catch and release".

As much as the "JCs" want cheap labor, the goober base does not want non-white people coming in. So, impasse.

Hence, "Plan Steve" (offered with tongue in cheek): forcing Prole spawn out of school by age 14, so they can "learn the dignity of work", filling the low pay, crap jobs, that immigrants would no longer be available to fill.

fwiw, the net sifter (suspecting I should have trademarked that term) says there are 17M USians between ages 14 and 18. There are supposed to be around 20M illegal immigrants. See? Plan Steve solves the labor shortage. And, booting that many people out of school, means all the money now spent on high school educations could then be used to give the "JCs" another tax cut.

The breakdown:

Age 14: Approximately 4.3 million
Age 15: Approximately 4.47 million
Age 16: Approximately 4.47 million
Age 17: Approximately 4.40 million

Steve