Before ICE increased arrests in immigration courts, one immigration judge that spoke to Border Report estimated that roughly 85 percent of people appeared for their hearings. Once courthouse detentions spread nationwide, she said attendance fell to about 30 percent.
  • prettybunnys@piefed.socialEnglish
    201·
    1 day ago

    This is the point.

    Make the legal route dangerous so everyone avoids and become “illegal”

    The same “the government doesn’t work, here I’ll prove it” method they use.

  • pinheadednightmare@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    If I was an immigrant, I wouldn’t either. I would go even further and “disappear” off of the map. It’s just like 1940’s Germany in the US right now.

  • Bakkoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    A nation that cannot uphold its most basic and inalienable rights isn’t a nation at all.