Current Events > So we're firing tear gas at migrants.

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CyricZ posted...

Paragon21XX posted...

Says the guy advocating for those attempting to illegally cross the border because sitting tight while waiting for their request for asylum to be processed is going to take awhile (ports of entry can only handle around 100 asylum-seekers per day, meaning it will take about 50 days to handle just the early arrivals unless they are willing to trek to a different port).

Yeah two things:

1) If this administration gave a damn, it would have sent more people with skills to process the migrants, rather than military troops.

2) Waiting for processing is far more humane than sending them back to their own violence-ridden country.

Ignoring the hypothetical situation where the government is able to send an army of trained judges, lawyers, and clerks to process them all in real-time, I'll say what I said to Darkman in a past topic on this:
EDIT: People which, btw, would be temporary at best unless we're going to start expecting massive and regular waves of immigrants caravan-style like this, which is untenable.

To the point saying the 10,000 people will just get processed... even at 50 requests processed a day (which included background checks), that's still 200 days. Assuming the US govt employees aren't working weekends, that's 40 work weeks. So we're presuming that 10,000 people are going to just wait patiently for the better part of a year, through the winter, while their applications are processed? And they're going to do this in Mexico?

Even the ~3K or so there right now will take about 3 months at the rates above.

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