Gov. Abbott: 'Texas Is Going to Start Arresting Everybody Coming Across the Border'
(www.westernjournal.com)
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He says they're going to be sitting in jail for six months. What the hell? How much sense does it make to give them room and board at the taxpayer's expense?
The point of the rhetoric of sitting in jail for six months is to give pause to people who are considering crossing the border. That was part of the reason why Trump was so hard on immigration issues on TV but the actual policies were very humane and for the benefit of all parties involved. The TV rhetoric scared people away from crossing thereby stemming a lot of the "moral" border crossing. By moral I mean non-coyotes drug dealers, human traffickers, just people who are looking for a better life. I know that is questionable definition of moral but I dont have a better word to use.
I like your take on this.
Non-industrial. Individual.
is that a word choice suggestion?
Yep. 'Individual', as opposed to being part of an intentional, industrial, mass-migration operation.
This. Prison in S America is nothing to sneeze at. Very well may give some people pause.
I guess turning them over to border patrol is worthless now as it was in Clinton/Bush/Obama eras