06-20-2018, 07:35 PM
(06-20-2018, 03:51 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I found this to be a good read on the situation at the border.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/patrolling-border-immigrants-wait-caught-191333121.html
I think the last point, about them being understaffed (and I would include lacking resources) is key. It's why I talk about appropriating more resources down there. I will say that much like any group of people, there are good people and bad people doing the job. I've read ethnographic research on border crossers and the type of thing they encounter, not just on our side of the border but on the Mexican side as well.
There is so much going on in the border area that we don't know about or don't understand. I wish we could do more to tell more of the story, from multiple points of view, so people could be more cognizant of the impact of these policies.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
