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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I think that’s why framing the debate is so important.

    1. This isn’t magically closing the border, this is just adding a new punishment for a small subset of people who cross illegally. Whether or not it will be effective is very debatable (if barbed wire doesn’t…)
    2. We should be talking more about the backlog in asylum cases, why aren’t we providing adequate funding for the courts to do their job.
    3. Why do we make asylum seekers wait so long to seek asylum and get authorization to work, how does this do anything but place a burden on support systems?

    And so on. This isn’t about stopping immigration, it’s about punishing those who do. [Too] Many will still support that, but it’s a harder stance to take.