Badger...
Not everything is about Trump!
Please read this post of mine again that you criticized and tell me exactly what is inaccurate based on that article.
The American taxpayers can take the financial hit, sure. But they haven't, because DC is dysfunctional and delinquent on this issue, has been for years, when it comes to providing the resources necessary for the number of asylum seekers that increase year after year. Refugees are staying in facilities that were never meant to hold people overnight, because that's what's available. The Trump administration owns the lion share of the blame for the current situation, but Congress and the Obama administration are not blameless either.
There have never been this many asylum seekers at the border before. The past several months have been unprecedented. Don't blame Barack Obama for failing to predict the future and building a bunch of dormitories in 2014 for people who would come here in 2018.
Why didn't the Republicans appropriate more money during the TWO YEARS that they controlled all branches of government?
Trump's actions - his refusal to provide assistance to Central American countries, his irrational fixation on a physical border wall - are what have made this problem as acutely bad as it is right now.
If they had fully put the resources to where they needed to be back then during the Obama administration, things wouldn't be so bad now. If you can't take care of 5000 immigrants humanely and efficiently, you sure as hell can't do it with 10,000. I don't know why that's so hard to understand.
The idea I'm hearing on this forum is that everything was fine with our refugee services and border patrols and immigration courts until Stephen Miller whispered in Trump's ear and made all the career civil servants into psychopaths. It's absolutely preposterous.
How can we take care of anyone humanely and efficiently when Republicans aren't willing to do anything about immigration at all that doesn't involve engineering a white majority America?
Obama tried in good faith to step up enforcement with the expectation that Republicans would get serious about immigration reform. They didn't.
If you want to take care of them humanely and efficiently, then you don't keep them locked up in the middle of the desert. You connect them with HHS and settle them somewhere. If they're a minor child, you place them with relatives, or if there are none, then you put them in the foster care system.
There is no reason they should be staying at the border or in ICE/DHS custody as long as they are to begin with.
