Who the hell in their right mind would want to come here?

The GOP and the media are going to point to the lower number of arrests & border crossings as proof that Trump shut the border down after Biden had opened it for 4 years.

I know that's not the whole truth, but will anybody in today's media environment push back on Team Trump?

Atlantic magazine, 2019.

"Migrants trying to apply for asylum in Mexico in January more than tripled compared to the monthly average from the previous year, according to an international official with knowledge of the numbers who was not authorized to discuss them publicly. Mexico's refugee agency has not yet published figures for January.

"All of these policies Trump is pushing are leading more people to seek international protection in Mexico," said Andrés Ramírez, former director of the Mexican Commission for Refugee Aid, which processes asylum cases.

Delgado was among hundreds of migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Afghanistan and other countries gathering outside the refugee agency in Mexico City after Trump unleashed executive orders last month meant to slash access to asylum and militarize the border.

The Associated Press spoke to around a half-dozen people who had asylum appointments in the U.S. through the Biden-era app, CBP One, that Trump canceled on Inauguration Day. They were left stranded on the Mexican side of the border, their dreams of a legal pathway into the U.S. snuffed."


https://www.voanews.com/a/with-doors-closed-to-the-us-asylum-seekers-turn-a-new-life-in-mexico/7974697.html

Might be easier to get an education as well.

And we have 500 troops newly transferred into the local army fort. Not sure what they're gonna be doing, since even the county sheriff had little to do but argue with a county supervisor of the same party. Maybe those newly arrived troops can hunt down all the rabid foxes roaming on the grounds of the fort. That would at least be a positive action to protect people around here.

The way things are going in this autocratic Christian Nationalist state with the implementation of Project 2025 it will be far more likely that the people crossing the border will be headed south instead of north!

...that seems to be Trump's plan.

That is still a couple thousand a week, a hundred thousand a year.

Assumptions about how many make it through are difficult. Less traffic makes for higher percentages of arrests. The narcos took over the entire border business a decade ago, and human smuggling is only one facet of their business.

Higher priced crossovers are about guaranteed success. Mostly via driving with fake high quality IDs. The tunnels are reserved for the most valuable people or goods.

Corporate interests in the US are very pro illegal immigration. The "pull" factor is also very strong. Day labor wages here are at least 10X that paid in Honduras or Guatemala. Imagine what you would do for 10X your current income.

we're ten times worse than where they are coming from

And the income differential adds to the draw.

Fleeing to Mexico.

We have CBP 'checkpoints' a few miles north of the border on all roads going north. It seems like it would be a good idea to expand those to routes going south. Americans are the ones making money arming the cartels who are making life miserable and dangerous for people south of the border.

Pogo was right: We have met the enemy and it is us.

they all have! I wouldn't be one bit surprised before long, when djt and others impose quotas of some kind. And, sure one poster made a little fun of these people going after Americans before too long, it's not really funny, being that I suspect that it'll be a very scary and true thing that will happen to some Americans. The border patrol, desperate to catch someone, anybody, will nab some Americans...just wait and see.

"legal citizen but can't prove it right here" thingy. How horrible for that NAZI Homan.

Seems the CBP and Ice go by skin color too often here in AZ

No more immigrants. I'm a genius. Blah, blah....

and Fox News and their clones will crow on & on about it

or any other pseudo-doctor, to continually feed more meat to their base. There is a risk of breaking down doors of churches and dragging people out that might be unsettling to some (not all) of their evangelical supporters.

They do have the option now to manufacture AI "reality show" material, but they are rapidly losing a talking point.