So the wall is going to solve all the immigration problems. My understanding is a majority of illegals are here after there green card lapsed. If true how does the wall solve that issue?
Why do we need new legislation or appropriations when the issues would be solved by enforcing current laws?
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The problem is two-fold.
One- Most people living in this country illegally originally came here on a work, student, or tourist visa, and never returned to their home countries. Many people from Europe, Asia, and South America arrive this way and then disappear into the underground economy. Large cities like San Francisco and Miami are havens for these people because they have huge immigrant populations and a vast shadow economy (restaurants, dry cleaners, maid services, construction, landscaping, etc) that absorb these people quite readily, and who exist outside the federally regulated employment/wage/tax system; basically an unregulated cash based work economy. These people work, raise families, and in many cases choose not to seek government social services for fear of getting caught and deported.
Two - Mostly uneducated migrants from extremely poor countries in South America travel to the US border to get into the country illegally. These people come to the US for one reason: to get on the welfare dole by claiming "refugee" status at the border, and since they have no skills, their intent is to stay in the welfare system as long as possible. From their viewpoint it's a "free ride" for life and they don't mind the bureaucratic delays since they have few options. These people come to the border (like the masses that showed up in recent months from Honduras) and
want to get caught -- because as soon as they set foot on US soil, they are automatically protected under US law. The fools in Congress (mostly Democrats and RINOs) have made the "refugee" system a joke because to qualify as a refugee you have to meet very minimum criteria. It's also very dangerous and aids human trafficking because under this system women with children are given preference -- hence kids get bought, sold, raped, tortured, beat, abused in all manner by adults so that when they arrive at the border a single woman can claim refugee status automatically if she has a few kids with her (regardless of whether they are hers or not), it also helps if she is pregnant -- that also gives her a leg-up on claiming refugee status.
Thousands of people are trafficked this way each day to the border to simply get caught by the Border Patrol and the first thing they say is that they are refugees. There are US-based and European based "charity" workers (mostly socialist left sponsored international groups) who educate these people in South America and Mexico on gaming the stupid US-based refugee system - they tell them exactly what to say, and how to act once they get on US soil. At that point the Border Patrol is helpless and they have to put these people "into the system" -- where they are eventually let go into US society (with a promise they will appear before an immigration judge in the future). Most all never show up for their immigration hearing.
What we have here is a mass flooding of people to the US, who are unskilled, often diseased (rise of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases in on the rise in border areas) who are integrated by law into US society because the system is not capable of detaining them. The US government simply lets these people go and buses them to communities all across the country in an effort to not only hide the problem, but to avoid local opposition to this clandestine program. Lots of schools across the country have been inundated with disease once these kids arrive -- yet the local school systems are powerless to stop it. They can't even send these kids home when there is a lice or scabie outbreak because it would highlight the fact that these "immigrants" were never properly vetted at the border due to their "refugee status".
The Wall -- will prevent most of these folks to simply walk across the border and claim to be refugees. They will be kept on the Mexican side of the border until their claims can be verified and they can be vetted. That way Uncle Sam doesn't have to house, feed, school, medicate, hospitalize, track, or provide pre-natal and neo-natal care to these people on the US side (the babies become automatic citizens even if the parent(s) are in custody but deliver on US soil). This way, thousands of illegals will not be flooding our cities and border communities with bogus refugee claims while "waiting" in the US to get their "refugee" claims adjudicated.
The wall will keep them in Mexico to wait their turn and to avoid our tax dollars paying for them while they wait their turn -- simple as that!
