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( Without watching said interview, I'm in the office and don't have headphones ) Did Sanders not indicate his support for decriminalisation of illegal border cr
by ajxs 7y ago
( Without watching said interview, I'm in the office and don't have headphones ) Did Sanders not indicate his support for decriminalisation of illegal border crossing in the primaries? I would hardly take that as an endorsement of restricting immigration.
- supercow12 7y agoNot necessarily no. Most border crossings aren't even prosecuted. https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/520/ https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/520/ Increasing the number of them being prosecuted places a massive burden on the court system and results in the various unjust scenarios we have today. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/border-immigration-courts.html?module=inline https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/border-immigration-cou... There isn't any evidence that criminalization decreases the number of border crossings either. https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2015/OIG_15-95_May15.pdf https://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2015/OIG_15-95_May15.pdf Indeed, immigration levels haven't decreased under trump despite the massive increase in prosecutions. Given this, it isn't absurd to think that other approaches would be at least as effective at controlling immigration in practice.
- masonic 7y agoSimple border crossing was not a criminal act then in the first place.