{"id":21350,"date":"2019-04-11T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=21350"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:56:14","slug":"hey-dnc-want-to-address-the-issues-facing-border-residents-start-at-the-source-of-the-problem-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/11\/hey-dnc-want-to-address-the-issues-facing-border-residents-start-at-the-source-of-the-problem-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey DNC, Want To Address The Issues Facing Border Residents? Start At The Source Of The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When it comes to the crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border,\nthe Democratic National Committee (DNC) is good at issuing press releases.\nFixing problems\u2026? Not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In honor of Vice President Mike <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/vice-president-mike-pence-to-visit-border-patrol-station-in-arizona-following-dhs-shakeup\/ar-BBVMMD4\" target=\"_blank\">Pence\u2019s visit to the border<\/a> town of Nogales, Arizona, the folks at the DNC rolled up their sleeves and got to work on\u2026a press release! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cVice President Pence\u2019s visit to Arizona is a great opportunity for him to address the issues that Nogales residents have been facing, like the increasing wait times at ports of entry that severely affect cross-border trade and strain the lives of American citizens,\u201d states the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No doubt, the current border crisis, which saw <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/sw-border-migration\" target=\"_blank\">103,492 people apprehended<\/a> last month while crossing illegally \u00a0from Mexico (many of whom are making bogus claims for political asylum), is resulting in long delays for legitimate travelers at ports entry, impeding commerce, and straining the lives of American citizens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While we haven\u2019t done any polling, it is a pretty safe bet that the percentage of Americans who want long lines, interrupted commerce, and strain on the lives of border residents is zero (with a margin of error of +\/- 0%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the DNC is interested in addressing these problems, other\nthan for the purpose of putting out press releases criticizing the vice\npresident, perhaps the Democratic leadership in Congress can roll up their\nsleeves and work on\u2026actual solutions. You know, things like preventing people\nfrom abusing our asylum laws, adding more detention space, increasing the\nnumber of asylum adjudicators, legislatively overriding the ruling of a single\nfederal judge who declared children \u201cget out of jail free cards\u201d for illegal\nborder-crossers, or treating unaccompanied minors as trafficking victims even\nwhen they clearly are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaos creates hardship and inconvenience for everyone. If\nthe DNC really wants to end hardship and inconvenience, it needs to break the\nlogjam in Congress and pass legislation that will end the chaos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is good at issuing press releases. Fixing problems\u2026? Not so much. In honor of Vice President Mike Pence\u2019s visit to the border town of Nogales, Arizona, the folks at the DNC rolled up their sleeves and got to work on\u2026a<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/04\/11\/hey-dnc-want-to-address-the-issues-facing-border-residents-start-at-the-source-of-the-problem-immigrationreform-com\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[140,5226,4272,1524],"yst_prominent_words":[3226,2530,2043,3461,2380,5216,5212,5218,5224,5223,2048,5225,1942,3655,5213,5219,5217,5214,5220,5215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21353,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21350\/revisions\/21353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21350"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}