Donald Trump's signature campaign issue was immigration. He fired up his supporters, creating images of ravening hordes of Mexican invaders raping our women and killing our children. He never lets us forget that those countries "don't send us the best they send us their worst". Be afraid. They're destroying America according to Donald Trump.
What happens if there is no immigration crisis? What happens if border apprehensions are at a 46 year LOW? What does a man like Trump do?
He creates a crisis as a vehicle to implement some pretty horrific policies, to beat the nationalist drums,
and unite us in fear that "the other" is going to take over decent hardworking white Americans.
And the horrible thing is - he is pretty damn successful at it. Enough so that we ignore the reality in favor of Trump World. We ignore working together on a much needed SANE and SUBSTANTIAL immigration overhaul in favor of a crisis management approach to immigration based on hordes that simply aren't there and myths that are blatently untrue.
Analysis | There’s no immigration crisis, and these charts prove it
Myth No. 1: Undocumented immigrants are flooding into the United States
In fiscal 2017, apprehensions of immigrants entering illegally at the Southwest border (a proxy for the total number of individuals crossing the border illegally) hit their lowest level in 46 years.
Myth No. 2: Undocumented immigrants bring crime
The reality is just the opposite: A large body of social-science literature has demonstrated that immigrants, legal or otherwise, commit crime at lower rates than native-born Americans. This chart, using Texas Department of Public Safety data compiled by the libertarian Cato Institute, illustrates this quite clearly.
Myth No. 3: Immigrants take our jobs and lower our wages
This is a more complicated question than the previous two. The best information comes from a massive summary of the literature published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) in 2017. “Most studies find little effect of immigration on the employment of natives,” that report concluded. In other words, no, immigrants are not taking your jobs.
Myth No. 4: Immigrants are a drain on the economy
In fact, research by the Cato Institute has found that poor noncitizens are considerably less likely than poor native-born Americans to use public assistance programs.
Well I find it funny there is no crisis but we must unite and fix the crisis...
From 2009 - 2011 Obama, Pelosi, and Reid could have done something and did nothing, so now you and those you voted for want something done while the opposition party control The House, The Senate and Oval Office...
Now you want something done when the opposition party was elected to close the border, build a wall and slow illiegal immigration to a drip and not allow a flood.
Also what is not shown in your post is reality of the life for illegal immigrants and how they are taught that reporting a crime could get them killed or their family killed.
Many crimes in the illegal immigrant communities go unreported because of possible death or worst being deported back to the hell they came from.
I would like you to research into the Sex Slave Trade and discover the reality of what many illegal immigrants have to endure.
Also as you point your crooked little finger at Trump and blame him, well remember Gloria Allred used a illegal immigrant to help get Brown elected as Governor of California and afterwards she dropped the illegal immigrant because the woman had no more use...
So you see both sides do not care and you claiming Trump is the Villain while excusing the left failure, well that is typical of those like you.
Now as you get ready to lecture me on how I am part of the problem, well remember Republicans and Trump were elected by the Majority of the States to do what they are doing.
Now what is more evil:
Trump doing what he was elected to do?
Or
Obama failing to keep his promise and then demanding the opposition party to do what Pelosi and Reid refused to do?
Maybe if and when Democrats regain the House, Senate and Oval office they will finally remove this wedge issue unless Trump wises up and does it for them!
Now lecture me how I am part of the problem and how what I wrote was hogwash and the Democrats failure in the past has nothing to do with what Trump is doing when you know it does!
Don't break promises and fix the problem when you have the votes!