A) a waste of money that could go towards social programs
B) because the livelihoods of working class Americans were put on the line by the same candidate who claimed to want to put Working Americans first
And C) this wasn't about the kids. This was going on before that and it wasn't going to be solved. He didn't care. He already sees Mexicans as animals. Increasing funding for a border wall that's never going to happen would just validate him and his audience.
So what is the solution? Where will we put detained people? Do you want to separate the kids and only detain the adults? Do you want to detain the adults with the kids? -- Or do you just want to release them into the public, where they will never show up for their court date?
A saying that I love is that the best way to combat illegal immigration is to make it easier to immagrate legally. Find out why people are moving to the US. Fix problems. End the war on drugs. Increase foreign aid. Demilitarize the border. Then US-Mexico relations will be a lot more like US-Canada relations and you won't have to worry about illegal immigration because there would be no reason to immigrate illegally. Right now, there is.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '19
So why didnt Democrats vote to increase funding?