[amluto]

> Texas Border Plan

This thing?

https://arrington.house.gov/uploadedfiles/1.pdf

This is an “objectively good thing” the way the War on Drugs was an “objectively good thing”. I think most people can agree that drug use and illegal border crossing ought to be reduced. But this plan is all about enforcement and ignores the demand side.

Where’s the portion of the policy making it possible for would-be employers of migrant labor to economically and legally match up with those who want to provide that labor? Where’s the portion recognizing that migrants and their children are human beings and deserve to be treated with a degree of dignity even if the US doesn’t want them right now?

> Ending … COVID … funding

I would love to see funding for a better COVID vaccine (and flu vaccine and RSV vaccine, etc).

[kaczordon]

Crazy that you don’t realize how bad the border problem is. First we need to secure the border that should be priority number one bar none. Then maybe we can talk about how to reform immigration policy.