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Fueled by record-breaking increases in migrants who seek asylum after being apprehended for crossing the border illegally, the court backlog has grown by more than 1 million over the last fiscal year and it’s now triple what it was in 2019, according to government data compiled by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Judges, attorneys and migrant advocates worry that’s rendering an already strained system unworkable, as it often takes several years to grant asylum-seekers a new stable life and to deport those with no right to remain in the country.
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When migrants are apprehended by U.S. authorities at the border, many are released with a record of their detention and instructions to appear in court in the city where they are headed. That information is passed on from the Department of Homeland Security to the Justice Department, whose Executive Office for Immigration Review runs the courts, so that an initial hearing can be scheduled.
“They’re just being released without any idea of what comes next,” said Randy McGrorty, executive director of Catholic Legal Services for the Archdiocese of Miami, which has seen hundreds of thousands of migrants join its diaspora communities.
So many migrants go to them for advice that, in the last couple of years, they’ve largely switched to teaching how to self-petition and represent themselves before judges.
I thought we had a labor shortage.
I’ll befriend one of these immigrants actually fighting to give their family a better life over one of my exclusionary, self professed “conservative” countrymen born on third base acting like they hit a triple any day.
Also I consider nation state borders to be the imaginary lines that enable the local warlords/oligarchs to entrench their power over their region, and carve up our communal habitat for private benefit. It’s a damaging, tribal, animalistic concept that divides humanity on more than geographical terms. Wrong idealogical direction if we want to be a civilization and not beasts at each other’s jugulars in the dirt.
I’m going to try to say this in the kindest way possible here, but…
A huge number of people in South America are Catholic, and on top of Catholicism, there is a lot of superstition, even among the educated (just like the US).
Many of these people see themselves as more aligned with those conservative countrymen you disdain than they see with you.
I wish it were untrue, but it’s not, a large number of them are deeply influenced by what is by and large a still deeply conservative religion.
I applaud you for your willingness to accept others and wanting to give them and honest chance and foothold in the world, but do not forget the adage “you can bring a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink.” You may try to be a positive influence all you want, but you won’t be able to change them, especially if they have wildly different values than you do.
So what? Just because they don’t believe the same things you do does not mean you should treat them poorly.
But that same thought pattern shouldn’t apply to the people who believe differently than us in our own country?
exclusionary, self professed “conservative” countrymen born on third base acting like they hit a triple any day.
So when a refugee exhibits the same behavior, that’s different and okay?
Also I consider nation state borders to be the imaginary lines that enable the local warlords/oligarchs to entrench their power over their region, and carve up our communal habitat for private benefit. It’s a damaging, tribal, animalistic concept that divides humanity on more than geographical terms.
And so is religion.
These are the concepts I was responding to in the first comment. I was trying to kindly point out that a large part of the world also operates this way and being kind, generous, and trying to show them how to be better doesn’t always work, that’s all.
These same concepts can be applied to those coming into our nation, they’re not suddenly “good people” by dint of being a refugee. If their religion drives them to want to ban abortion and murder gay people for being sinners, then I don’t exactly think they’re a real match to begin with. If they can be shaken from those beliefs, great, but if they can’t, you can’t act shocked or be upset when they turn on you because their beliefs told them to. How many of them will simply see you as an imperfect vessel sent by the Lord to help them along their Holy Path to be discarded when they’re through with you, since you don’t hold the same beliefs as them? They potentially already see your soul as lost and disposable. I’ve personally dealt with these kinds of attitudes from religious people born in the US and those born in South America.
I’m just saying people are people, and there’s terrible people with backwards, ignorant belief everywhere. At the very least you can recognize that and choose not to house religious nutjobs or nationalistic nutjobs.
You’re making broad sweeping generalizations about entire ethnic groups, and then you wonder why people reject your message.
You’re engaging in the very behavior that makes conservatives so disgusting.
Half my family are Latino, and there are good and bad people in it, just like in any group of people. Stop painting entire races and ethnic groups with a broad brush. There are words for such behavior.
Do you have a source for any of that? Historically, the Latin Church has leaned liberal.
The religious = irrationally conservative dynamic is a pretty broad stereotype.
It heavily depends on which community you’re talking about, basically it runs the same gambit as churches in the US except all bearing the label of Catholic
We dont have a labor shortage. We have a wage shortage, as in companies need to pay more.
What a total waste of time and resources devoted to this manufactured border “crisis.”
I’m scanning as fast as I can!
