only because the politicians have driven it, to that...
That is the very reason it is called the Third Rail of Politics...
The
third rail of a nation's
politics is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is "charged" and "untouchable" to the extent that any politician or public official who dares to broach the subject will invariably suffer politically.
Third rail of politics - Wikipedia
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We USED to all at least PRETEND we were for national borders and security. Democrats have abandoned almost all pretence.
your republican politicos are framing it that way, though untrue...
and certainly the democratic politicos are framing it as conservatives being heartless....
same ole same ole..... hasn't changed in 20 years with just a drop of ''compassionate conservatism'' in between with Bush 2.
Democrats think spending money on the wall across the entire southern border of the united states is a waste of money and time.... but that does not mean they do not want less border control and less border security....
They do believe in spending money repairing or recreating with better technology, walls that exist in the high traffic zones and expanding in to higher traffic areas...but spending the non existent money in the budget for a wall in the middle of a dessert or mountainous range where crossers are likely to die before reaching the US Border is a waste of money, when we have so many other things we need to do, to make our nation secure from threats, like our Electric Grids....
They also believe in spending more on border security officers.
Yes, some...just a handful, but not leadership, want to abolish the existing ice AND RECREATING A NEW replacement.... ICE replaced INS after 9/11 and was suppose to focus on terrorist, drug and gang illegal immigrant/entries/deportations....
And it has lost its purpose of its mission, i believe I read with only 250 out of the 350,000 arrested by them for deportation were gang or drug or violent crime related deportations.....
so, SOME critters want to REVISE IT or REPLACE it.....with the focus back on to our security and criminals threatening that security...
NOT abolish, with no replacement as the Cons are spinning.
we don't believe we should punish the DACA kids for what their parents did.... if they are upstanding, speak english, graduate from high school or college.... that's exactly the kind of immigrants we would want to import....isn't it? So let's keep them....if their noses are clean as a whistle....
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