On visit, NC group finds no Biden 'open border.' Instead they see a war on migrants

[Eugene]

Source: Raleigh News and Observer

On visit, NC group finds no Biden ‘open border.’ Instead they see a war on migrants

Ned Barnett
Wed, September 7, 2022 at 4:30 AM

The idea that President Joe Biden tolerates an “open border” policy on the U.S. border with Mexico is a familiar Republican claim, but that is not what activists from North Carolina and Washington-D.C. found on a trip to both sides of the border last month.

The group of seven, five from North Carolina and two from the nation’s capital, visited the border at Douglas, Ariz., and Agua Prieta, in Sonora, Mexico.

What they saw wasn’t migrants pouring in unchecked thanks to a careless U.S. policy. What they saw was a border bristling with concertina wire, cameras, motion detectors and walls three-stories high. They were told how migrants break their ankles after dropping from the top of the walls.

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The visitors saw how the U.S. Border Patrol has sealed many illegal entry points and how the U.S. immigration system, overwhelmed for lack of judges, staff and adjustments in old laws, can’t accommodate all who want to enter legally. In the face of those obstacles, migrants are increasingly taking more dangerous paths to enter the U.S. illegally by walking through the desert or being smuggled inside vehicles driven by human traffickers.

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[jimfields33]

1. We had one entry way for decades called Ellis island

Can’t we come up with some way too do the same on the border? It’s ridiculous that they have to craw through water and debris to get here. What about the peninsula at the southern end of California. Where do all the immigrants end up? Texas? Arizona and California. This would make it so easy and successful. New York DC and Chicago are not taking anymore right now.