Response to a Facebook post.
I AM Asian. Let's look at this issue pragmatically as we calm the drama down. To be in America as a foreigner, you need to be useful to America. You need to be NEEDED. Let me elaborate.
<>Regardless that many Asians are also illegal/undocumented or "visa overstays," they are the highest household earners among all ethnicities and the most educated/skilled (among all races here, including whites). They are essentially "quiet," partisan/politically unengaged, and law obedient. They work, they pay taxes, they have fun. Useful and needed.
<>Central Americans and those that entered/crossed via the southern border are a bit complicated and complex. They are similar to those who entered Europe illegally via the border "laxity" of the Schengen Area. Their punishing journeys in large groups are mostly facilitated by human traffickers and drug cartels. Syndicates and smugglers and coyotes, in cahoots with border patrols and bent/corrupt local officials, profit from them. Many are forced to "pawn" their kin left behind back home vis-a-vis "cartel activities" in America.
Meanwhile, many are deposited in factories and farms as an arrangement with business owners, paid in coins, housed in trailer homes like sardines in a can, no health security, not counted when calamities hit them. But they toil the land. They are "needed" by America that way. As long as they don't "moonlight" as mules or drug couriers, they can stay. Slaves but hey they keep farms and factories "alive." Never mind that they don't speak English. THAT is the reason why this side of partisanship wants them here otherwise all illegals in America are legal now. As we speak, there are 14 million undocumented in America, a modest number since that's only the official count. This: Around 70 percent of farm workers are illegal.
<>Anyhow, it was Barack Obama who deported the most number of illegals, 400,000 on average, in his first term. That rivaled Dwight Eisenhower's Operation Wetback in 1954. Donald Trump had so far deported close to 200,000 this year but that's mainly because Joe Biden also let in a record number from 2021 to 2024 1st Q. Also in 2021, Joe abolished the Merida Initiative, the US/Mexico et al law enforcement cooperation/partnership per anti-cartel or human trafficking program. As expected, cartels exploited that; smugglers from elsewhere in the world hooked up with Mexican cartels for "management" of border crossings. Hence the record numbers, in many instances, 4,000 to 6,000 a day.
<>In fairness to Obama or Trump, the illegals that they sent home or removed are those with clear ties with cartels or criminal organizations, has active crime dossier, no adapting citizen kin here, not sponsored by NGOs or churches, and don't qualify for asylum (the program has been bankrupt for years). Yet millions stay because they are NEEDED by the economy.
<>I can talk more but this is already long. This immigration issue has to be discussed in length over one-click of memes. I could be wrong but majority of my insight are based on my work as journalist who covered the border in California and migrant shelters, police beat, and I worked as well as paralegal for an NGO in LA and law office in New York + I co-wrote a grant for a nonprofit that assisted via legal advice to illegals in both cities. 🗽🏃♀️🏃
