He means that they have outrageous and self-defeating expectations.

The U.S. actually has a very lenient immigration system, at least compared to other high income nations. Easier to become a citizen here than most other places as well. We are an outlier in the way that we put more emphasis on family members being able to immigrate here, rather than employment/education/skills-based migration.

Pretty sure we’re one of (if not the only) high income countries that still has birthright citizenship. Most everywhere else one or both of your parents needs to be a citizen when a child is born, for that child to be given automatic citizenship.

Are they LPRs?

I don’t hate them, I emphasize with them but that doesn’t mean I’m going to virtue signal and advocate martyrdom because of policy choices made by lobbyists and the politicians they have in their pocket along with the corrupt officials in other countries.

The fact is, the economically progress policies and programs many people would like to see, will never be realized with our current immigration policies. Well, unless we find a way to effortlessly create goods and provide services out of thin air for an infinite amount of people.

We? ‘We’ are not corporations or the military industrial complex that lobby for the things you speak of. ‘We’ are not the corrupt officials who run these other countries.

‘We’ are people who are being squeezed by bigger and bigger taxes, fees, inflation, rent, healthcare costs all while not having wages commensurately increase. ‘We’ are the 60% of people who live paycheck-to-paycheck one emergency away from homelessness. All the while ‘we’ watch people who are not even citizens get placed in hotels in some of the most sought-after areas to live in, making sure their needs are taken care of like food and healthcare. And then when ‘we’ get mad about this ‘we’ have to listen to morally-righteous-virtue-signaling-bleeding-hearts who advocate for conflicting policy goals; chastise us for being responsible for things a handful of rich and influential people make decisions about and how if we don’t agree with them that it is our moral responsibility to take care of the entire developing and undeveloped world’s peoples then it’s because we’re cold-hearted or racist or closeminded-maga-worshippers.

No. Just no. I don’t support hardly anything Abbot or Desantis support, and the transfer of migrants to cities like NY is obviously a cynical political ploy but seems like this needed to happen to make people in living in the blue-bubbles that are metro areas start to realize that perhaps looser immigration doesn’t mix with their other policy goals.

We will never be able to implement the kind of social programs and safety net that I and most people who aren’t hardcore conservatives would like to see; if we do not fix our immigration system (and no, Democratic Socialists, Koch libertarians, and limousine-nimby-liberals… that does not mean simply making it easier for anyone who wants to, to be able to legally come)

Except.. the homeless are (mostly) citizens, whereas most asylum seekers don’t actually even end up qualifying for asylum……

This was what the MPP tried to do, except keep them in Mexico because that wasn’t against international law like sending them back to their home countries would technically be. Biden ended that program though, of course.

Are you a lawyer? I would think the judge would still be able to rule a mistrial because it’s technically not over yet. He has not actually been given his sentence and wont be until November.