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Illegal immigration is absolutely something that needs to be handled politically.
But the answer is to change the laws to make the path to citizenship easier.
sure, but its also an incredibly minor issue that has somehow taken over every aspect of the government costing us hundreds of billions of dollars for literally no returned value.
its like these assholes who rage-vote because they hate trans people when less than 1 tenth of 1 percent of the country identifies as such.
its a full on waste of time and money but no one seems to care because the largest swath of elected officials are here to grift and not govern
When I tell people of an inmate who required a slightly more expensive blanket due to an allergy, and the courts spent more fighting it than just giving every inmate the better blanket; they are outraged.
When I tell people a company spent more fighting adding trans care to their insurance plan than funding it for 100 years; they hem and haw about how expensive our care is and dance around being uncomfortable with our transitions.
I saw numbers calculating a bed in one of the new concentration camps costing as much as a cheap house.
It's all grift and distractions, and so much of our population eats up the propaganda.
They tried to handle it politically. The Senate spent a lot of time on compromise immigration legislation last year, only to have Trump call up Republican Senators and say "You can't fix this right now, I need to run on how broken it is!"