Comment Re:Hey, Google... (Score 2) 96
I live in the US and the southern border is indeed WIDE OPEN.
No it's not. And you know it's not, because you correctly identity the broken asylum system as the problem, and those people aren't sneaking across an undefended border. They're SEEKING OUT Border Patrol officers so they can make their asylum claim.
Being poor in a foreign country does not qualify you for asylum under those laws.
The law entitles you to a HEARING the moment you ask for asylum. Until that hearing occurs you are legally entitled to remain in the country. Why aren't you mad at the politicians that starved the system of resources instead of the desperate migrants who are simply exploiting the world's most obvious loophole? It shouldn't take YEARS for an asylum claim to be adjudicated, but it does, and that's a problem we could fix if one of the two major political parties cared as much about the issue as they claim.
This problem could be solved by the simple expedient of hiring more immigration and administrative law judges. One of the aforementioned two parties won't go for it. Old school members of the party in question are reflexively hostile to any perceived expansion of government and secretly like illegal immigration because it exerts downward pressure on wages. Newer more populist members of the party are part of a Cult of Personality that has cynically decided it's more politically advantageous to have a broken system to rail against than it is to actually fix said system.