Immigrants
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coming our way, again
So daughter Sarah sent me that video, and asked for comments. I texted her back the following:
I’ve now viewed it 4X, and I’m still not sure I can see what’s happening. There are at least two protesters here: one’s dragged away, the other struggles and is shot. The ICE narrative is that they were arresting an illegal alien when a number of protesters intervened and tried to stop them. One pulled out a loaded 9mm semi-automatic and that’s the struggle to disarm him you see here. If true, well, the lesson is don’t bring a gun to a “peaceful” demonstration and point it at armed cops. So we’ll see.
The long term problem is what to do with these 20-30 million people. Do we want borders? If not, do we simply let in the 3 billion people in the world who, polls suggest, want to come to the US? If not, how do we select those we want to come in, and keep out the we don’t? Current federal immigration law restricts entry to those individuals who have been vetted and demonstrated among other things, that they can support themselves and won’t become “a charge on the public”. That’s a lengthy, years-long process, and the applicants must stay out of the US until and unless they are granted permission to enter.
The exception to that process is granting refugee status to individuals who can demonstrate a danger of persecution or danger to themselves personally. The grounds for asylum specifically EXCLUDE persons who want to come in for economic reasons (90% of the people coming in during the past 4 years said that they were motivated by the hope of making a better living for themselves and their families - a perfectly understandable reason, but not one that would qualify them for admission under the asylum exception).
The process is supposed to be that the would-be refugee remains outside the country while his application is considered and ruled on. That too took years, so Biden by executive order opened the borders: border guards were instructed to wave each applicant into the country, give them each a hearing date years in the future, and wished them well. So now we have at least 20 million new residents, some capable of earning a living, most not — 86% of the Somalis in Minnesota receive at least one form of welfare, often a combination of cash, housing, medical care and free schooling for their children similar numbers in other states, other ethnics. You are being charged for those costs.
The next problem is that during the years asylum seekers are here, they have children who automatically become citizens. So you end up with the heartbreaking scene of a parent, or parents, sent back to the country of origin, and we see stories of families broken apart. Of course, the parents are free to bring their children with them and, when the kids are older, the can return to the US as a matter of right, but that’s not often pointed out by the media.
So maybe the solution is to seal the border, thereby stopping the flow of still more refugees, and absorb the 22 million that are already here. That’s going to be very expensive: Newsom in California, for instance was forced to cancel his previous order granting Medicaid (called Medi-Cal there) to “undocumented” residents because it had already cost $4 billion in in its first year and costs were still rising. The state doesn’t have the money to pay for it.
Poor people in the cities — citizens — are now competing with millions of new residents who also need housing, so supply, already insufficient, is growing worse.
And so on. We’ll never be able to evict the people Biden let in, and that was Biden and the Democrats’ intention, as many people on my ideological of the argument pointed out all along. Now it’s your generation’s burden to carry the costs. I think you guys were sold a bad deal.
Deportation of illegals without hearing
It’s allowable under existing law, but recently federal judge issued an order requiring an individual deportation hearing for a defendant that, by his legal reasoning, would require hearings for every every alien under his district’s jurisdiction — 776,000. That would require, as shown in the next paragraph, between 5.39 and 15 years, if every one of the 735 immigration judges worked exclusively on cases in the federal judges district; that’s not going to happen.
Here are some numbers from Google’s AI:
As of late 2024 to early 2025, there are approximately 685 to 735 immigration judges operating under the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). The number of final asylum case completions by judges has increased significantly, with over 12,000 monthly asylum decisions reported in April/May 2025, following over 51,000 total decisions in FY 2022.
Immigration Judges (IJs): The number of IJs has grown significantly from 254 in 2015 to roughly 735 by the end of FY 2024, although hiring slowed in 2025.
Asylum Determinations: The annual number of final asylum decisions varies. While historically lower, recent trends showed over 50,000 cases decided in FY 2022. In 2025, the pace increased, reaching over 12,000 asylum case completions in a single month during April/May.
Case Management: Despite the increase in judges, the average caseload per judge has roughly doubled over the last decade, reaching over 5,000 per judge in 2024.
Outcome Variations: Asylum grant rates and outcomes vary widely depending on the court and judge.
Thoughts outside that text:
Maybe the “answer” is to only seize and deport illegal aliens with criminal records; that would get rid of at least a couple of millions of them, and would probably be acceptable to the American public. One problem with that is that is that the criminals are mixed in with the general population of aliens, and sorting them out at the scene, especially when so many have false identification, would be nearly impossible. But maybe it could be done.
Long term, not only are these people here to stay, but so are their friends and relatives who are temporarily remaining outside the country, waiting. Border crossings are down to a trickle because of Trump’s ICE raids because who wants to risk their life travelling thousands of miles to the promised land if they’ll only be picked up, jailed, and returned? But it’s a waiting game. The aliens know that the borders will reopen when the Democrats regain control, possibly as soon as this fall. They’ll be here, soon.
So I don’t see an answer. Deportation polled well when it was still just a concept. The reality, especially the distorted, duplicitous reality they’re fed by the media, is too harsh, they feel, and won’t support it. They’ll vote the Democrats back in, and the country will continue its hurtle to hell.