As midnight nears, the lights of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, fill the sky on the silent banks of the Rio Grande. A few months ago, hundreds of asylum-seeking families, including crying toddlers, waited for an opening to crawl through razor wire from Juarez into El Paso.
No one is waiting there now.
Nearly 500 miles away, in the border city of Eagle Pass, large groups of migrants that were once commonplace are rarely seen on the riverbanks these days.
It’s a return to relative calm after an unprecedented surge of immigrants through the southern border in recent years. But no one would know that listening to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump talking about border enforcement at dueling presidential campaign events. And no one would know from the rate at which Texas is spending on a border crackdown called Operation Lone Star – $11 billion since 2021.
Illegals don’t disappear once they cross the border. Just because the rate of new illegals has dropped momentarily doesn’t mean that the illegals that have already crossed go away. Nor does it mean the rate of new illegals won’t increase in the future.
This is such an obvious fallacy, hopefully even Lemmy would agree.
Your use of the word “illegals” to refer to human beings just outs you as a racist piece of shit.
What race is “illegal immigrant”? It’s an action, something they decided to do. What’s your opinion on cops?
“Illegal immigrant” is politically charged but not nearly as dehumanizing as calling people “illegals”.
Being an ignorant bigot is also a choice.
Yes, just like being an illegal immigrant. You get it now.
Hahaha. You’re funny.