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.

Some are...some are trying to avoid them.

Whether or not they are crossing and trying to get caught..the border is wide open allowing them the ability to cross at all.

That needs to be stopped, halted as close to 100% as possible.

ONe way to help, make it so that ANYONE caught crossing at any point other than a regular checkpoint, is forever banned from any legal asylum or other legal admission to the US.

No more crossing and trying to find a border guard....you immediately are documented and put back across the border and never allowed in again for any reason for life.

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.

Fuck that...it isnt' working, shut it down.

We're "full" and no one is allowed in till we work through the backlog....cross now in any fashion other than us letting you thought a checkpoint....you're put back across the border, no exceptions and banned from future legal entry.

Time to shut the border DOWN.

Any asylum claims can and should be made in the first country they cross into....so stay in MX...no more crossing multiple country borders to get to the US, you can seek asylum in one of those countries before the US.

Economic problems are not an asylum criterion.

Then perhaps all those hotels, golf courses, landscaping companies, restaurants, home builders, construction companies, meat packing plants, farmers, ranchers, wineries and who knows who else, stop hiring them. Problem solved.

I agree!!

Many of them are fleeing their countries in S. and C. America because climate change has upended their way of life. I wonder who's responsible for this climate change? Who could that be? Why America, that's who. Welcome the newcomers, educate them, train them, and stop fucking whining about it.

1. Not my fucking problem.

2. Still not a valid asylum admission value even if it is a factor.

3. The US is not the only country in the world that pollutes....and we're making huge strides against it.

If you lived in the USA, you would know this isnt true.

I live in the US and the southern border is indeed WIDE OPEN.

Invasion is an accurate term.

Seems an odd position for you to take, to slap down those that are already beaten and bloody on the floor. But hey, you do you there anonymous coward that isnt even from the USA.

I wasn't the OP, but I guaran-fucking-tee you I'm a US citizen. And the majority of those crossing the border are not legitimate asylum seekers...they are ONLY coming here to earn money.

Being poor in a foreign country does not qualify you for asylum under those laws. Most of the border crossers are younger military age males.

If they truly were seeking asylum from political or other persecution, they'd not be crossing over multiple countries ...they'd apply in the first country they come to, but no, they keep going multiple borders to get to the US borders.

Why? To make money...

We're not under obligation to take in economic nomads....and most of the people coming across...if we can catch them, do NOT qualify for asylum and will get deported, but our US system of letting them in and "trusting" them to come back in a year or two for a hearing...isn't really working out that well.

JFC....even the northern cities are starting to get tired of this shit because now, they are finally getting a taste of what the southern states have been going through by being overrun by these illegal aliens.

Sentiment is turning....finally.

An ICE running on gasoline has approximately 30% efficiency. Diesel can reach up to 45%. An electric engine will run at about 75% at least, so there is that.

It's all a matter of perspective. A lot of people are working just to get by in the world. If they're just giving everyone 10 more years, I'm probably in. If I have to trade 10 more years of work, to pay for 10 more year of life, it's not as enticing. I'm not outright declining, but it very much becomes a cost/benefit question for a large portion of society.

Given the 10yr extra option...I'd take the years!!

They also think timber framed houses in a first world country is absolutely fine,

What exactly is wrong with them....?

Are you saying everyone needs to build their homes 100% out of cinderblocks, no matter where they are in the world?

Even if they could extend life for hundreds of years it would be terrible for society.

Well, I'll be happy to let you and other people altruistic enough to volunteer for early death, do just that.

Moi?

I'm wanting to live a long as I possibly can (in comfort and enjoying life the way I do now)....and would be willing to do just about anything to do so.

I don't get why to some people their own lives don't seem to be that important, but to me...MY life is the #1 priority to me.

I only get 1 life as far as I know, on this planet....I'd like to have it last as long as I possibly can.

I do, however, need to lose weight first, as that I'd prefer NOT to go through eternity as a fat vampire...

Isn't there a doctor shortage in the USA

Yep...because there is such a push and had been for awhile to get doctors of color, and the female persuasion.....while actively at the expense of qualified white males....

They'd rather have foreign Dr.s in the US versus native, qualified white male doctors.

This screening happens at the medical school level.....there are plenty that would do it, but racial profiling is keeping the numbers of doctors down in the US.

So, US people are unable to learn from other cultures that may be doing some things better?

We can "see" what other cultures and countries do...we don't have to like them or want to emulate them.

I personally already pay over 32% or so in taxes...I would not want to pay upwards towards 50% in taxes to try to do national universal health care in the US.

That and the US currently DOES have a government run healthcare system...the VA.

I've seen first hand how BADLY that is run...over budget and under performing by a mile with services.

No thank you, I don't want a federal system like that to be what I depend upon for my health needs.

As bad and $$ as the system is here, I'll take it over that nightmare of an alternative.

Where's the overreach? It's literally the purpose of the Executive branch to implement the laws that Congress passes. Offering instruction on how to expedite green energy projects in addition to the other streamlining measures is 100% within the letter and intent of the law.

Except, that's not what they did. The law said:

streamline the approval process for major construction projects, such as oil pipelines, highways and power lines for wind- and solar-generated electricity.

But what the Biden admin did was:

But they also lay out additional requirements created to prioritize projects with strong environmental benefits, while adding layers of review for projects that could harm the climate or their surrounding communities.

But here, while here they "prioritize projects with environmental benefits". This means they're ignoring parts of the law that also expedited things like oil pipelines and new roads. This bill was for ALL forms of energy, not just green.

The part with the "adding layers of review"....that's just liberal-speak for "if we find projects we don't like, we'll throw them into red-tape bureaucracy hell, and you'll never have a chance of your project approval ever seeing review much less the light of day."

It's sneaky...but they've basically changed the meaning and put their thumbs on the scales of what gets green lit and approval streamlined.

Weirdly, none of the .EU porn sites I like are following these laws.

So, uh...er......can you list out some of those sites?

You know...just as examples?

;)

41.9 degrees Celsius is approximately 107.42 degrees Fahrenheit.

44.9 degrees Celsius is approximately 112.42 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thank you.

I was about to comment that Slashdot is a US centric site, and if someone posts an article like this, they really NEED to translate the temperatures into F too, as that per usual, you're lucky for Slashdotters to read the whole summary, you can't then expect for us all to open up another tab and start googling for a damned translation of the temperatures.

40C doesn't mean squat to me...but 107F + does.....

Anyway...thanks for the info!! It actually made the article mean something to me.

Healthcare must be operated as a public resource, not a private profit center. But the HMO parasite is deeply, deeply embedded in America and it damned well won't go without a fight.

Well, American here....I'll say "No:Yes" in answer to you here.

As others have mentioned, for an example of how well the federal govt in the US runs healthcare, just look at the VA system.

No thank you, I would NOT want to depend on that system for my healthcare...I'm doing MUCH better now with things as they are, even as screwed up and $$ as they are.

But for point #2, with HMOs...I agree....when those parasites came into the system, it blew up.

If there was some way we could go back to those days, when I was a kid...Dr.s largely hung their shingle out and generally worked with people as to what they could pay. And people could afford it.

Insurance back then was knows as "Major Medical"...and THAT is what is was used for...an emergency that you could not afford, like a heart attack or getting hit by a bus.

Why? No middle men...and not as much litigation by $$$ grubbing lawyers. Dr's today have to keep rates up high to fight off the scum lawyers.

Are there bad Drs and malpractice? YEs, but not to the extent of litigation levels we see today.

If we could get the for profit corporations out of hospitals and go back to older ways....it would be much nicer.

But an emphatic NO to having the Feds run nationalized healthcare. We have it and it is NOT pretty.

Not only that, but the US could NOT afford to give that same level of BAD care to everyone in the US, it would bankrupts us even faster than were going into debt now as it is.