InfinityMonster posted...
The bill is alright in terms of border security, but it does not stop release into the US and in fact will expand alternative to detention, so it doesn't really help us in NYC. It provides us no funding or anything for services provided to the migrants.
We've been waiting almost 2 years for something to change here in NYC and we've been ignored and it's only gotten worst and most of that time, we had Title 42, which helped reduced things, yet was still overwhelming. This bill would likely end up bringing us back to Title 42 levels.
You can't keep releasing people into the country with no support from the feds. This is not the job of states, cities and charities, which are all overwhelmed already. Entire migrant families are starting to end up in the streets.
https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/asse
ts/2023-05/OIG-23-24-May23.pdf
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-01/59697-Demographic-Outlook.pdf
The first part of the response was to point out that record apprehensions doesn't mean anything when they voluntarily get apprehended. People bring it up with border security and use that to make it sound like they're being caught and returned or something, but it's straight up disinformation. Migrants walk up and are apprehended and then most are released into the US in 24-72 hours for their court date.
The numbers were to show that even if we're talking about border security, they're doing worse than ever before. 2019 and 2020 had only 150k and 300k.
Which pages are these? I skimmed through and didn't see your statistics cited.