Crisis on border? ‘Maybe congress should walk a mile in our shoes’

By World Tribune on April 7, 2019

https://www.worldtribune.com/crisis-on-border-maybe-congress-should-walk-a-mile-in-our-shoes/

The following excerpts from a Facebook post by a resident in Texas living near the Mexican border was shared without comment by veteran Washington Times political reporter Ralph Hallow:

Passing on this post from a Texas lady:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo

From a Friend of our Family: for those living close to the border in Texas, the crisis is all too real on the border of the U.S. & Mexico. This is from the perspective of someone who lives with this every day. They are not secure in their homes behind walls like all of Congress is. Maybe Congress should walk a mile in these people’s shoes. The urgency to have a wall built at the border may not seem like a crisis for some. One such person is Kari Wade, who, with her family, owns a ranch just 50 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.

The border rancher recently responded to a Facebook comment when someone asked, “Where’s the fire” in regards to the urgency of President Trump to build the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. . . .Let me tell you where the fire is:

The “fire” is finding dead bodies on your ranch, … the “fire” is waking up to unknown people talking in your attic, the “fire” is dogs barking all night when your closest neighbor is 7-25 miles depending on the direction to just realize there are people outside your barn, the “fire” is having to come home after dark and have to carry a rifle to go feed your livestock after BP tells you that they only caught 9 of the 15 they are looking for.

The “fire” is making a choice… do I take my child with me to a dark barn to feed and hold the flashlight or lock him in the house, so you lock him in the house and call a friend to let them know he’s home alone and if they don’t hear back from me to come check on us. The “fire” is you don’t feel comfortable letting your child play outside without being in eyeshot of them. The “fire” is having large drug busts on your ranch. The “fire” is feeling sick to your stomach every time the helicopter swirls your house because you know they are chasing people because you can hear them on the speaker talking to them. The “fire” is seeing the BP camera set-up 1/2 mile from your house. The “fire” is coming home after dark…your children are driving in front of you as one is of age to drive, and there are officers on your road watching illegals 1/4-1/2 mile from your house and you have to call your children and tell them to keep driving, don’t stop at the house.

The “fire” is coming home to your backdoor wide open.

The “fire” is real for me, my family, and my community.

http://www.elpasoinc.com/el-paso-mayor-s-border-plan/article_2ac17592-5918-11e9-a5a7-3f73ba7a7a06.html

El Paso Mayor’s border plan

By David Crowder / El Paso Inc. staff writer 3 hrs ago

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El Paso Mayor Dee Margo says he has had ongoing conversations with visiting officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, about possible solutions to the border crisis – all requiring congressional action and presidential cooperation.

He laid out a four-point plan that he thinks would address the long-term problems on the border.

“My position has been No. 1, have Homeland Security define what constitutes border security and what they need in the way of resources. Some will be physical structures, most will be manpower, and some will be technology,” he said.

Second, he said, “You deal with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Anyone who served in the military, you’re a citizen. The rest of them, unless there’s a criminal reason, they should have that choice as well if that’s what they want.

“Then the 10 million to 12 million they say have been here for years illegally, my position is the egg is broken. Deal with it. Vet them for criminal activity and anybody with a criminal background, you deport. The rest of them, you give green cards.”

Though that sounds like the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Margo said, “It’s not amnesty. It’s a green card for economic opportunity, which is why they came in the first place. They don’t get a path to citizenship.

“They get a legal way to work. No amnesty.”

Step No. 3, he said, would be the reconstitution of the old Bracero Program that was in effect from the 1940s to the 1960s.

“It’s still there, but the paperwork is so onerous that people aren’t doing it,” he said. “But in its heyday, it allowed Mexican agricultural workers to come in for harvest work and go home with their earnings and come back the next year.

“Now if they come into the U.S. to work in the fields, they won’t leave because they’re scared they can’t get back.”

The last piece would be to reform the H-1B Visa program.

“This lottery system with 16,000 to 19,000 visas is ridiculous,” he said. “My son’s firm was trying to get an underwriter from Lloyds for five years and gave up.

“We have 4 percent unemployment. We need skilled workers.”

And that, Margo said, is a plan.

“You take those parts and put them together and you have a rational immigration system,” he said.

Sen. Cotton calls for solutions to secure southern border

https://talkbusiness.net/2019/04/sen-cotton-calls-for-solutions-to-secure-southern-border-discusses-mueller-report-re-election-bid/

Sen. Tom Cotton says more advanced technology and updated asylum laws are needed to protect illegal immigrants coming to America through Mexico, but he’s not sure closing the border would resolve the current dilemma.

Calling it a “crisis,” Cotton, R-Ark., said March saw a huge influx of immigrants with children who presented themselves at the southern border. He said there are a number of ways to expedite the legitimacy of those arriving.

“We really do face a crisis at our border. Just last month, March, we saw some of the largest numbers of illegal immigrants show up at our borders we’ve seen in 10 years,” Cotton said.

He noted that adults are coming to Border Patrol agents, not sneaking across the border.

“We absolutely should adjudicate more quickly,” he said, in reference to the cumbersome processing of legitimate asylum seekers. “We should try to take advantage of rapid DNA technology, so we can identify on the border who’s an actual child and who’s a trafficked minor so we can take care of that minor and we can deal with the person who’s been trafficking that person trying to get into the country. We should do more with modular housing to try to keep people at the border.”

When asked about President Donald Trump’s proposal to close the entire 1,200 mile section of the U.S.-Mexico border, Cotton said he doubted it would solve the problem.

“I wouldn’t want to close the border if it wasn’t going to solve the problem. And again, right now, the problem is not people trying to run across the border in the middle of the night. It’s people showing up and making false claims of asylum.”

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Really liked her, but more transparency in the last week shows we have been let down.