Who’s to blame for the 'broken' US immigration system? | The Bottom Line

President Joe Biden promised a “humane” immigration process on his first day in office, but not much has changed since the anti-immigrant policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
Millions of people from Latin America make the journey north to cross into the United States every year, and the ones who make it get stuck for years in legal limbo, waiting for a hearing.
Steve Clemons speaks with immigration lawyer Allen Orr and reporter Uriel Garcia about how the debate among Americans on whether immigrants are welcome has stymied chances for any new laws to modernise the system.
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[@user-im1sh4qe8t]

Can you accept illegal immigrants? Qatar, Saudi Arabia.....etc

[@Make_America_Native_Again..]

It's desert they can't bear the heat

[@hermanspaerman3490]

Qatar can help. Qatar has a large fleet of commercial aircraft, just fly these "refuges" there. It is time for Qatar to accept their first refuges ever.

[@sheilalortie5570]

Title 42 should stay in place and be expanded to ìñclude people from china

[@emandas5640]

International media should show up Qatar Homegrown News case .

[@NuestraPatriaGrande]

Middle-class Latinos can arrive here and choose to stay after their visa expires. Many experts say that the bulk of illegal immigration is this type. But middle-class people have the means to stay without repercussions. There are many Europeans and Canadians that are here illegally and stay. What is needed is to go beyond the need for slave labor. Immigration needs to be fair and not discriminatory. Another consideration is that Mexicans go to San Diego like white citizens visit Maine. The Southwest is still predominantly Mexican in every way. There should be a way for Mexicans to travel to the land they lost to The US and from their motherland.

[@Worldaffairslover]

Middle class in Mexico I assume☠️

[@wandaprock1015]

Even coming here LEGALLY is a total nightmare !

[@KrystalLaHaye]

Maybe everyone should quit trying to figure out who to blame and work on how to fix it instead . Blaming doesn’t fix the problem

[@kgar5String]

Fix means locking it down not making it easy.

[@500KViews]

and whose immigration system is idela ? may be Qatar's one ? ROFL

[@DanhNguyen-ly9yi]

Immigration? LEGAL OR ILLEGALS? Do they applies for VISA?? My cousins had waiting for 15 years to get the visa?

[@briayazic616]

Your cousin having to wait 15 years to get a visa is a great example of how our immigration system is broken. What is the difference between "legal" and "illegal" when the laws themselves don't make sense?

[@TheKing75691]

This has to stop you can't bring on two people to have the same point of view that doesn't make any sense

[@raymondroysr.]

we all no who to blame for this mess

[@tsukeisawa7786]

If we can bus people to new York we should be able to bus people to Quebec or Vancouver

[@Vandelberger]

Uh, no you can't lol.

[@juliogumeta5313]

buss yourself out of stolen land while youre at it. gringo shitass

[@kgar5String]

We should be able to bus them where they came from.

[@alexclems815]

Immigration is always an issue all over the world, more pressure should be put on the governments allowing atrocities against their people..

[@SOCORROGM]

Very good an to the point 👉

[@kgar5String]

Because you think fixing it means let more in, and we don’t.

[@kgar5String]

The conditions are we want the American economy.

[@kgar5String]

What do you mean being accused of being illegal?

[@ckrgksdkrak]

I think both legal and illegal immigration should be strictly monitored and controlled/restricted. We don’t really need 500000000 people working in the kitchens while there are bums on the couch on welfare checks. We need to get them some work to do.

[@saddamhussein4480]

Stay in your Countries!

[@juliogumeta5313]

stay out of stolen land gringo

[@Ecovaluations]

Corporations and Agribusiness that depend on low wage labor must lobby Congress to act on immigration; if nothing else, increase the number of worker visas. This chaos at the border creates a perverse incentive to do nothing because undocumented workers can be paid at a much lower rate. 😣 The US, at the behest of corporate interests, has a long history of installing autocratic governments favorable to foreign investment (aka stealing of natural resources); therefore, much of the immigration could be stopped if the US took personal responsibility by dismantling the brutal behavior of governments that make living in these countries intolerable, to say nothing of global warming increasing the number of climate refugees!

[@DukeCannon]

One word. Begins with a j

[@ragdoll7886]

Why most immigrant prefer imigrate to west and europe instead of super rich country and near like saudi , qatar and UEA ???

[@TheBlackB0X]

Are you kidding? It's literally where they end up being slaves.

[@BoRaiChoWins]

Most of those countries you list also don’t really take in migrants.

[@GrikWorldNomad]

Immigration has been fixed for decades, the US has a migrant worker visa program as well as a skilled worker program. The former is rarely used, costs money and time, so employers don't bother. Others must wait and apply for refugee status from outside the US. End of issue.

[@kgar5String]

You said it perfectly

[@bullvinetheband7260]

This happened in the nineteen hundreds and led to the boarder wars.

[@noorfraz7440]

Nice glasses steve 😁

[@taj____]

I want to move to USA 🇺🇲 Please do something about immigration please 🥺🙏

[@philg4116]

You forgot to mention that when Biden or any potus talks up laxity, they come thronging north.

[@militarymoments]

Biden and Kamala inviting everyone

[@Worldaffairslover]

That is not an easy fix, there’s a big difference, Trump administration started the policy of separating families. Also, Trump started making horrible immigration policies, Biden admin has been forced to try to deter immigration as a last resort, after they’ve tried other things

[@Vandelberger]

I agree that everyone should be given a chance to apply, the problem is 2 million people annually get caught trying to sneak into the U.S. How would you even give to million people a chance to apply? To be medically checked for diseases like measles that we no longer have immunity too? It would be a military scale operation.

[@trinidadraj152]

They wouldn't have to "sneak" if there was a reasonable system of allowing legal temporary labor without fear of deportation, and a coherent system of working toward citizenship for those who have been here a long time. The "crisis" doesn't exist if a coherent system is in place. It's mostly a matter of political will power to make substantial changes to this system, including the funding to increase staffing for government workers to address immigration or asylum claims.

[@MrRyan-fd9rd]

@@trinidadraj152 thousands upon thousands of people would still “sneak” illegally into the U.S. even if the immigration system was fixed. Unless they let every single person from any nation who wants to come here, into the country and in a short time frame, but that wouldn’t be possible. The only way to keep people from illegally crossing the boarder would be to install a proper barrier (wall/fence), use surveillance technology, and adequate border personnel. But still, if the current system is broken, politicians need to do their job and fix it.

[@kgar5String]

@@trinidadraj152 You only have to fear deportation if you are deportable meaning illegal. Why do you think anyone the wants to get into the US should, that is dumb.

[@kgar5String]

@@trinidadraj152The laws we have are reasonable, you just don’t like it. We don’t want more.

[@kgar5String]

@@trinidadraj152 It is dumb to keep saying the problem won’t exits if let everyone in, we want to be America not Latin America.

[@syedazehra7791]

You are my favorite host from Pakistan

[@Make_America_Native_Again..]

Qatar's 80% of population are immigrant workers. So stop blaming Qatar or any Gulf countries.

[@divya9951]

Migrant workers

[@hermanspaerman3490]

Migrant workers kept in servitude and enslavement. If any Western nation do what Qatar is doing hypocrites like you would REEEE all day long.

[@Make_America_Native_Again..]

@@hermanspaerman3490 don't lie bro

[@hermanspaerman3490]

@@Make_America_Native_Again.. , You can just google it in 2 seconds , but a loathsome hypocrite like you would rather accuse others of lying.

[@Make_America_Native_Again..]

@@hermanspaerman3490 most of these immigrants have already built their future in their country of origin.

[@eugenewu2202]

People from overseas chose to live in America their fate will be the same like the nation chose America to be their alliances, they end up with the great regret.

[@rogerofsalerno6127]

America is not a country.

[@kgar5String]

Which country has regret?

[@eugenewu2202]

@@kgar5String where you are in. Move out if you can, no delay.

[@hermanspaerman3490]

Open borders for Qatar now!!!!!

[@JustMichael51083]

Respect brother🎯👍

[@alexclems815]

Canada is big, they can take em

[@koneliomatini1035]

Which party. Democrats OR republican. Speeds the process for accepting the migrant. Wil be in power for very very long time.migrants Wil remember which party gave them HOPE. USA IS just slowing the blessings and goodness, that follows with them.

[@kgar5String]

We will also remember that turned this country into the one they left.

[@TheShpmusic]

Stop complaining Budd. You need these Citizens for the American Dream.

[@TheBlackB0X]

Stick to making french fries Kevon, it's too much for those two blown out brain cells to imagine.

[@wisemenstillseekhim3114]

Joe Biden and Nancy P

[@emandas5640]

I'm shock that Qatar news never broadcast by govt Funded Al-Jazeera

[@emandas5640]

International media should show up Qatar Homegrown News case .