Primarily, it allowed for what many here are concerned about
Posted on: August 22, 2024 at 15:44:33 CT
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and are told "isn't reality" - turning those illegal entries into voters, citizens, and fast.
"This bill represented a grand bargain between elected officials who sought to extend legal protection to millions of migrants who had entered the U.S. illegally and officials who were most concerned about stemming the flow of such migrants. The bill accomplished the former but had no discernible impact on the latter, leading many conservatives to denounce it as an “amnesty” bill."
Also - for more "sentiment".
As partisan polarization deepened over the ensuing decade, the odds of agreement on meaningful immigration reform fell steadily. Donald Trump, whose campaign against illegal immigration helped him win the presidency in 2016, put in place through executive orders measures — such as separating children from their parents — that his administration defended as tough but necessary and Democrats denounced as cruel and inhumane. As the Covid-19 pandemic exploded in 2020, moreover, the Trump administration employed emergency public health measures to all but close the southern border to unauthorized border crossers. During the administration’s final year, encounters with migrants at the border fell to 458,000, an average of less than 40,000 per month.
President Trump’s policies aroused vehement opposition from many Democrats, and the party’s presidential nominee pledged to end them.[gold When Joe Biden took office, he was as good as his word. Unfortunately, the policies with which he replaced Trump’s measures failed to manage the southern border effectively. Encounters with migrants at the southwestern border rose to 1.7 million in FY 2021, 2.4 million in FY 2022, and 2.5 million in FY 2023. (In addition, an estimated 600,000 entered the U.S. undetected, without encountering border agents, in FY 2023.) During the first quarter of FY 2024 (October 1, 2023-December 31, 2023) encounters totaled 785,000, putting the United States on pace for 3.1 million encounters during the current fiscal year.