| Trump | Joe |
|---|---|
| Undocumented immigration in the past: - was much lower in the past | Kamala Harris’ statement in 2021: Don’t immigrate: “don’t go to the border, do not come” |
| Trump’s actions: - building a wall - metering ⇒ keeping migrants out | Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’ response to Harris’ statement |
| Current undocumented immigration: - increases as a result to metering - now the majority immigrates in undocumented ways | Roots of the border crisis, according to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) & Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under George W. Bush |
| Metering: how it works and it’s impact: ⇒ allows border agents to limit the amount of immigrants able to request asylum in a specified period of time - leads to decrease in official border crossings and increase in inofficial border crossings, which are far more dangerous for the immigrants ⇒ remote border checkpoints easily become overwhelmed - immigrants can become stuck at the border | Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’ opinion on border facilities |
| Trump | Joe | |
|---|---|---|
| Sending migrants back | Transit ban: Requires asylum seekers to use buggy CBF One app to apply for asylum from another country | |
| Making migrants stay in Mexico | metering | require asylum seekers to stay in Mexico whilst they are being processed |
| Seperating families | deliberate; send adults back but keep children in governmental custody | detained migrant children & continued some harsh practices, but family seperation isn’t mentioned explicitely |
“When it comes to immigration policy, Biden is increasingly Trump-like.”
- Moustafa Bayoumi
reasons for choosing republicans:
- both suck, we flipped a coin
arguments:
- shoot yourself
- build a border
- gun rights for texans to shoot more mexicans
