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This only works if valid ports of entry are open. In practice they haven't been for a while. I mean, there are places where refugees are supposed to apply but

This only works if valid ports of entry are open. In practice they haven't been for a while. I mean, there are places where refugees are supposed to apply but they haven't been taking any applications recently - always saying "come back tomorrow". If it were me I might very well give up eventually and cross the border if I was in these refugees shoes. Sneaking across the border is a crime but its a misdemeanor like driving without a seatbelt or ignoring a "No Trespassing" sign. It's very rare for people to be thrown in jail while awaiting trials for misdemeanors and generally the consequence of committing a single one isn't jail time. So US policy at the border, while legal, is horribly unreasonable and maliciously cruel.

WhompingWindows 8y ago
Laws have been used for thousands of years to enshrine in legal codes the prejudice and bias of superior classes. Ancient Mesopotomians in the Code of Hammurabi assigned silver shekel values of fines for killing a slave woman, killing a slave woman with child, killing a superior woman with child, killing a superior man, etc. etc. This legalistic attack of aliens/others/immigrants is another in a long string of bureaucratic masks for base human instincts. I love your point about sneaking across the border. Those supporters of the current regime's policy, some 25-30% of the polled US population, will often simply state that these are law-breakers and criminals for breaking our laws. And yet, is the same opprobrium applied to those who speed, shoot off fireworks illegally, or dodge taxes (like many of the rich today)? If they were truly about law and order, rather than about an othering/discriminatory scheme, surely they would decry these other violations of the law?