Are you guys drinking more than normal tonight because it's Friday night???
the Democratic congressmen questioned did not say what pajamas media twisted and said he said.
He said we need to allow asylum seekers, in countries that have abused their people, to seek refuge here, as we have always done since the forming of our Nation.
He was not talking at all about illegal immigrants, he was speaking about refugee asylum seeking people, NOT illegal Mexicans crossing our border...and a vetting process.
What he said about the Wall across the entire Mexican Border, is that in some areas of the border it doesn't make sense and other means like more Border Control agents or helicopters or video surveillance might be better.
YOU GUYS have lost your minds!!!!
Well most of the conservative reaction in the thread is in response to the idiots that are engaged in their usual baiting and provoking that they always do, not so much the OP.
But as to the rest, from
the article:
According to the Washington Examiner, 273 judges in the U.S. are currently handling more than 500,000 immigration cases, many of which involve illegal immigrants. Thompson was asked if the backlog complicates the Democrats’ call for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
“We’ve said to a lot of people all around the world if you are oppressed, if you are abused, you should look at the United States of America as an opportunity to come. And so, what I think we have to do -- while we give people a pathway to citizenship -- is not close our borders,” he told PJM at the Democratic National Convention.
“We have a system for vetting people and I am going to look forward to working with it – and we need to increase the number of immigration judges and those kinds of things to expedite things, I’ll do that – but I am not for wholesale sending people back. That’s not the American way,” he added.
Thompson was also asked if he agrees with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration.
“No, I don’t. Some parts of the border, it’s absolutely impractical. In the urbanized areas, some of the business people, people who live along the border, say it’s bad for the economy and we have to respect the people who live there,” he responded.
“Our ‘border experts’ live hundreds of the miles from the border but they tell people along the border what they need. We have to have a conversation with the people there. In my own estimation, the wall is not what we need,” he added.
During the interview, Thompson reacted to the Border Patrol union endorsement of Trump.
So we have two problems, 1) we have a
legal process that is too slow and causes people to seek illegal entry instead. And 2) we have a bulky system with hundreds of thousands of cases and
not nearly enough people able to vet these people at all, and we need to do that these days for national security reasons.
So , yes, Thompson said that he does not want to close the border to illegal immigrants. He wants to increase the speed of the legal and legalizing processes to legalize more illegals, and for the Democrats this is entirely self serving and all based on a myth anyway. When our country had a huge frontier and we needed immigrants to come in and help to settle vast areas, sure, we had simpler immigration standards, but we still did not let in sick people or those with no skills or those with skills in trades that were already fully employed. We also had 'time out' periods where we made it very difficult to enter the nation legally, like from 1920 to 1955, a period of time when the Middle Class wages rose and the life spans made huge leaps and happiness in this country climbed like a rocket.
The Democrats, meanwhile, have long made their bread and butter on cheap immigrant labor in political ward systems and they got a growing number of voters that voted within that system to keep their position within that ward system and stay riding the gravy train.
We STILL need legal immigration as Middle Class people are reluctant to have the number of kids we need to have to grow the population in a healthy way, economically, demographically and for the purposes of maintaining a strong social safety net. But all this is in the process of changing as the Robotics Revolution is dragging us toward a jobless economy, where everything is automated, roboticized, computerized and no people necessary.
We probably already have enough illegal aliens here that if they all got legalization we would have more than enough labor ten years from now, but also a huge burden on our welfare and social safety net that
shrinking government revenues are not going to be able to meet and so everyone is left with the anxiety that they might not find the help they need as funds run out across the country from one county to the next.
We have to reform our immigration system, but
the first thing should be enforcing the existing laws so we can see what is working and what is not working. Then we need to find ways of making the process more efficient while
placing the highest priority on the interest of working American citizens,not political parties or corporations wanting ever cheaper wage slavery.
As to the slam on Trump for being an 'expert who lives hundreds of miles away from the border' well the people who do live at that border and enforce its laws you would think would know whose plans would work best, at least by Thompson's logic.
And those professionals endorsed Donald Trump's approach to handling the problem, not Hillary Clinton's.
