Comment on Joe Biden expected to sign executive order to curb immigration
odium@programming.dev 4 months agoI know some ppl trying to take a three week vacation to the US. They applied for a visa. They need to do an interview to get the visa. The interview is scheduled a year and a half from the day they applied and is on a random weekday in a city 8 hours from where they live.
They applied in 2023. Biden is doing the opposite of letting everyone in. They make it such a pain for just tourists, let alone residency visas.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 months ago
The problem is that they’re trying to do it legally.
odium@programming.dev 4 months ago
trac.syr.edu/immigration/…/pop_agen_table.html
38000 ppl currently detained by ice and cbp for illegal border crossing. That’s a lot of ppl not being let in.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Thats magnitudes less than the millions Border Patrol catches and releases every year. www.cbp.gov/…/southwest-land-border-encounters
odium@programming.dev 4 months ago
That’s millions by year and my statistic is for a month. Looks like your statistic shows 170k encounters for the most recent month which is what we should compare to the 38k detained.
That’s roughly just under a quarter of encounters getting detained. Being encountered but not detained doesn’t mean they are let into the US. They get sent back to Mexico. Detaining people costs more money than sending people back.