Thread by @What46HasDone

Okay, quick thread on immigration: Immigration is a way messier subject than anyone on this website wants to actually acknowledge, because the system is so broken in so many places, that when you improve it in one place, it often requires you increasing something in another area

For example, Trump was refusing to let any asylum seekers into the US, instead forcing them to stay in Mexico in squalid camps where they were under constant threat of rape and murder. President Biden ended that. We are now processing these immigrants into the US.

But because of that, we have more immigrants coming in, which requires more processing (especially with COVID restriction). So the administration has had to open up temporary shelters, including for children to handle the processing. These shelters are far from ideal

But they're not the "kids in cages" ICE shelters, which are closed, and remain closed. And we need to do processing somewhere, so they kids can be united with their sponsors and live there while their cases are being processed. You can't fix the immigration system in a month.

Trump took years to destroy it. But those who are arguing that Biden is more of the same are doing so in bad faith.

And if they really care, they should be advocating for his immigration bill, which will legalize 11 million immigrants living in the US.