Is there a National emergency for people wanting to live better vs dying if they stay?
Drugs are already in America. Crime is done more by our own in America!
The immigrants at not having a war with us there is no shooting people in war.
We are not in a war time. Trump claiming a National emergency is not going to
happen it will be stopped in court!
happen it will be stopped in court!
~~~~~US immigration policy has totally lost touch with US immigration reality
The US has long viewed immigrants who enter the country illegally as belonging to two groups. There are Mexicans, and there is everyone else.
The focus on Mexicans, who are the majority, and who traditionally migrate for economic reasons, has resulted in policies aimed at blocking off the border and quickly turning back those who breach it.
But these days, the share of “Other than Mexicans”, or OTMs—yes, this is an official classification—is much larger than in the past. And while some of them might have been lured by the promise of a job, like their Mexican counterparts, many of them are women and children fleeing violence and crime in Central America.
This mixed flow, experts say, poses a different challenge for the immigration system: how to quickly and fairly determine who has a legitimate need for protection. So far, though, many politicians seem to be stuck on the idea of keeping people out (including Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, with his idea for a giant wall between the US and Mexico).
“The popular debate has not caught up to the reality of the border,” said Marc Rosenblum, who worked at the Migration Policy Institute when I interviewed him earlier this year, and now works for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“Other than Mexicans,” mostly Central Americans, accounted for 44% of immigrants caught by the border patrol in fiscal year 2015, according to DHS data (pdf, p. 1). In the first eight months of fiscal 2016, OTMs were fully half of those caught:
