I'm still waiting for taco trucks on every corner.

I'm still waiting for the next dangerous migrant caravan saga to come along. I expect we'll see it in the next couple months.

Clearly because those traitriots fixed all the problems once they're in charge.

There seems to be a ‘crisis’ at the border every election year...

How can you look at this graph and not see a problem? Border interactions rose by a factor of five between 2020 and 2022 and while they 2023 numbers aren't out yet it's clear that they went up even more.

...and then the ‘crisis’ suddenly ends if Republicans get into power.

Which is why Trump famously shut up about the border wall after he was elected. Oh...wait.

I mean fuck Trump (and most Republicans) but your comment is ridiculous.

And take breaks from the political circus. I'm guessing most of us know how we're planning to vote already, and we all know that Republicans have no shred of decency or shame anymore, so hearing about every latest act of cruelty is just punishing yourself; don't do their dirty work for them.

Yep, it undermines their only talking-point that has been sticking.

I too agree the border crisis is entirely manufacturered. But that doesn't change the fact that independents / swing voters, and even a large chunk of Democrats have this as a major concern, with it overshadowing inflation now as the overall largest issue.

So Democrats calling Republicans' bluff will offer an excellent rebuttal to any questions or debates down the road.

Reminds me of the Key & Peele skit

The United States cannot continue to absorb the equivalent of Sweden every 4-5 years.

Citation needed. You believe 10 million people, cross the border illegally every 5 years? You believe 2 million people illegally cross the border per year?

How is it unsustainable? Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes every year, and they are unable to claim benefits afforded to US citizens (e.g. unemployment, social security, Medicaid, etc.).

They work jobs that Americans refuse to do.

I really fail to see how this is anything but positive. But then again, I'm not racist or xenophobic, so...

A steady stream of people showing up daily with nothing, starting from scratch, is not a crisis to you?

Correct.

What do we do with those who show up to find all the farm jobs in Idaho and other places are filled?

Lol, you have no clue how farming works. But to be clear the US currently has historic low unemployment. Your remember that time when no employer is hiring at minimum wage? That's what historically low unemployment does.

There is plenty of work available.

Furthermore, do you condone the treatment refugees receive while working these jobs?

No, I don't. In fact, these "make the border strong" and "deport everyone" chants are used by employers of undocumented workers to get away with serious abuse. People that employee undocumented workers use the threat of deportation as a control method to stop their workers from demanding fair treatment.

The only form of border control I support is strict punishments and fines of employers of undocumented workers. That's the only way to improve working conditions and hopefully end up with reforms that make getting documentation not the nightmare process it is today.

But minimizing the long term need to assist the ongoing influx of people as purely racism isn’t productive. We have no solution for what to do with all of them.

It is racism because all this fear mongering is targeted at a single source of illegal immigration, the Mexican border. And it's targeted through evil and inhumane methods like putting razor wire in waterways. That's racism, it's not "solving problems" it's killing brown people.

We have other borders and mechanisms that people enter the US. This one is what racists cling to because nothing is more scary than a group of brown people on Fox News.

Do you think just opening up the border and letting whatever happens afterward work itself out is the answer?

Yes, because you may not know this, but that's exactly how the US operated for a century. It wasn't until the 90s that the border became this huge scary thing that racists clung to. Famously, Ronald Reagan granted citizenship to every Cuban who landed on US shores. That hasn't destroyed the nation, it was the backbone of major US cities like Miami.

And, again, I'll point to Europe which does effectively have open borders, particularly for EU citizens. This has not lead to the collapse of the EU. Though it did lead to brexit which has supremely hurt the UK.

We'll never stop undocumented workers, so how about we put into place mechanisms to. 1. Make getting documentation super easy, and 2. Provide these people with a leg up to actively contribute.

And if you say "we should do that for citizens" yes, we should. We can do two things.

I think the 2022 midterms revealed to them what a monumental fuckup that was and continues to be. They are hoping we forget somehow.

We have a party just like that in Sweden as well. Literally founded by nazis. They support the current government but still complain about everything. Pure populist fascism.