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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days agoNot the person you asked, but I have answers.
A friend of mine depends on government assistance to get his psych meds because he is very very crazy, but has been doing well for a decade as long as he gets his pills. The unstable rollout of DOGE created a temporary situation where it seemed like his meds would no longer be paid for, and the stress of it drove him into a delusional episode. That episode cost him his job, which cost him his housing, which has nearly destroyed his life in a matter of months. All that due to piss poor communication and giving huge power to a billionaire who has never worked in government before so he can take a chainsaw to any program he wants—a decision that even the administration seems to realize now was a terrible idea.
I live on the border. I used to be able to cross from Mexico to the US in under 15 minutes on the average day. Customs was well staffed, and the process was orderly. Very soon after Trump was elected, they started spreading out the border patrol staff to have a bunch of them stand directly at the border line and check for passports and/or immigration documents—exactly the same documents they will check for 2 minutes later at customs anyway. This has led to understaffing at the actual customs checkpoint, and now it takes around an hour a lot of the time.
One of my best friends is a trans woman, and now her identity isn’t even acknowledged by the President of the United States—a disrespect towards a citizen that should be unacceptable in a democracy.
I can keep going if you like…
oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So, you feel like less handouts, a secure border, and not embracing someone’s delusion of reality are bad things? I totally support all the things you say are negatives.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’m not even going to address the first and third points because we simply disagree, but you missed what I was describing about the border.
It isn’t more secure, it is less efficient. They aren’t doing a more thorough check, they are checking exactly the same documents twice, and the first time they aren’t even scanning them to see if they are legitimate. They simply stop you and look at them which creates a bottleneck in the line and creates understaffing at the real checkpoint two minutes further down the walkway.
This understaffing has actually caused them to not have enough people in the checkpoint building to man the x-ray machines, so it is arguably less secure than it was before. If I cross at night now, I no longer even get my bag scanned, which used to be standard procedure during the previous administration.
oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Biden was known for his open border policies, extremely well documented. Everything I’ve read or seen on the news says illegal entry has slowed drastically under Trump. It’s OK that we disagree on the other stuff.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Your information comes from the news, my information comes from personal experience of crossing the border several times per week and seeing it with my own eyes. Which one of us has the primary source?