I love the implicit assertion these people are migrating just for fun. Ignoring the fact climate change has already been screwing up growing seasons. Ignoring centuries of political meddling and repression. Ignoring the fact these asylum seekers are fleeing the conditions imposed on them by the US in the first place.
They will use the border patrol to make the areas where people can cross more difficult, which will force those trying to cross into even more dangerous parts of the desert where they will die of thirst. The point is to have them die deep in the desert where we can't see them.
How are you going to "reign in" the number of asylum claimants exactly? "Reigning in" is doing a lot of unspoken work here.
I love the implicit assertion these people are migrating just for fun. Ignoring the fact climate change has already been screwing up growing seasons. Ignoring centuries of political meddling and repression. Ignoring the fact these asylum seekers are fleeing the conditions imposed on them by the US in the first place.
They will use the border patrol to make the areas where people can cross more difficult, which will force those trying to cross into even more dangerous parts of the desert where they will die of thirst. The point is to have them die deep in the desert where we can't see them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/no-more-deaths-arizona/