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What "border crisis stuff"? There are no massive groups of people crossing the border illegally, all of the talk about that is GOP propaganda.
The majority of illegal immigrants in the US enter the country legally and then overstay their visas.
The only "crisis" is racists and xenophobes getting their testes in a twist about becoming a minority race and maybe having to learn a second language. People traveling hundreds of miles just to come here and commit crimes is a stupid argument for stupid people. The stats also don't hold up as far as crime goes. They're much less likely to commit crimes over fear of deportation. And all of the actual drug dealers that enter the country illegally will probably be back in the US in under a month of being deported.
I'm 100% for humanitarian alternatives to help people whose countries are not safe. Full stop.
I'm not sure that it's fair to handwave away the idea that there's a crisis as GOP propaganda when both Obama and Trump called it one. I don't think it's fair to say that there's no massive groups coming when between 2021 and 2024 7.2 million migrants were encountered by border officials, and that number does not include migrants who successfully made it through. And Biden deported more migrants in 3 years than Trump did in 4.
I don't claim to be an expert on this topic by any means. I am open to other ideas. But there is, I think, a valid issue here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border_crisis?wprov=sfla1
Not exactly. The current majority are claiming asylum at the border and then get lost in the system, no-showing court dates, etc. That's why the border bill this year had provisions for more judges to expedite the process.